Greer Garson

[JackFavell]

I REALLY like Desire Me, kingrat, I think you captured it's appeal and it's drawbacks perfectly. I wondered too about the beginning being tacked on, but then the ending would be too, no?

It's actually one of my favorite films, maybe because it surprised me so. It falls into that weird time period of films I'm so fond of, the late forties foggy, ghost story/war aftermath/lost identity type films that almost always get to me. I cannot believe they thought this was the worst film they ever made... did they get a good look at Blonde Fever?

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Hah! Desire Me is on On Demand this month! I'll get to see it this weekend!
YAY!

[Rita Hayworth]

Hah! Desire Me is on On Demand this month! I'll get to see it this weekend!
YAY!

Thanks for telling me this ... I do have On Demand ...

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Well, I like Desire Me. How can you not enjoy Robert Mitchum, a war story, Greer Garson, the same sheep from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and the same cold, desolate garret used in Madame Curie?

Richard Hart, as Jean, probably had the most difficult characterization, because he had to flip-flop so much. He died only four years (heart attack at 35)after completing this film. One of this three children, is a professor of writing at The University of Texas Engineering School.

[JackFavell]

I'm so glad you liked it! It's a difficult watch at first, simply because it's mostly about Hart and he's not a hero. And it could have had more Mitchum in it. But I enjoy it because it's offbeat.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

And it could have had more Mitchum in it.But I enjoy it because it's offbeat.

Always more Mitchum! And offbeat suits me.

[mrsl]

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Well, you know how I feel about Mitchum, so off beat, pioneer, cowboy, detective, I'd take him any way I could get him, except for Cape Fear. As the preacher with the love/hate tats on his fingers he was frightening, but still nowhere near the vibes he gives off in Cape Fear, I was glad he was up there on the screen and not in the audience for that one, bbbbrrrrrrr!!!!


But back to Greer. I'm glad RO explained what happened with Strange Lady in Town, because otherwise I would have asked about why it's never been around very much, and I had never heard of it. I was thrilled to see it was a kind of a western - not the regular shoot em up kind, but still with a western theme. Dana Andrews was fine as the chauvinistic self-centered male. I'm sure a lot of the men in the original audiences would not have minded having Greer as their doctor. She was adorable in this one. I also think Cameron Mitchell, at this point in his life, looked very much like John Garfield.

Scandal at Scourie:

I'm glad I was never around during the time that Protestants were so fearful or maybe misunderstanding of Catholics. I'm not choosing sides, I never knew such animosity existed. Anyway, this was a really cute family movie with Donna Corcoran as a little orphan who basically chooses Greer to be her mother. I'm just sorry Agnes Moorehead didn't have a larger part because I like her so much. And again, I repeat that I think the team of Garson/Pidgeon was really as good as, if not in some cases better, than Tracy/Hepburn.

I'd like to see both of these again.
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[RedRiver]

As recently as 1960, many lifelong Democrats refused to vote for JFK. They didn't want The Pope running the country!

[feaito]

First of all I want to say, that after reading Michael Troyan's excellent Bio on Greer Garson, I wanted to see all of her films, even the ones I had already seen before.

Last night I watched with my two American friends plus the mother of one of them who's visiting from NY and does not have TCM: "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939).

Last week while chatting with her, I told her that I was finishing Garson's Bio and that I had enjoyed it very much. She said that she was fond of Garson and that she wanted to see again Mr. Chips, because she had only seen it back in '39 when she was small kid (she was born in 1930); so I gave her my word that I was going to organize a "movie night". She was so pleased with the film, she smiled and was moved all the way through it. My pals also loved it. And I had never seen it before and was completely impressed by it. The epitome of a good MGM film, with fine production values and excellent performances. Robert Donat deserved the A.A. he won for his nuanced and multi-layered performance (There is much controversy about who should have won that year; most people say either James Stewart for MSGTW or Gable for GWTW).

Greer Garson, on the other hand, makes one of the most compelling screen-debuts ever! She's luminous and totally effective as Mrs. Chips. And we agreed with my friends that the film does not fall into being schmaltzy or overly sentimental. The MGM team did an excellent ensemble work.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Greer Garson, on the other hand, makes one of the most compelling screen-debuts ever! She's luminous and totally effective as Mrs. Chips. And we agreed with my friends that the film does not fall into being schmaltzy or overly sentimental. The MGM team did an excellent ensemble work.

Luminous is the key word. I will never forget how my mother always made so much fuss about movies and movie stars, and when Madame Curie first screened itself in my life, it transformed me in a way. It revealed that I had a choice, that I might have a profession and a job to do. Watching such an obviously beautiful lady succeed in a profession that was traditionally male-oriented illuminated a path for me to follow more than 10,000 interviews with Gloria Steinem would ever do. Some of the whiny liberal feminists who never had to support a family or balance a job with a hungry child never struck a common chord in my heart like Greer Garson's performances did.

There is nothing like an intellligent, gorgeous woman to set a plan of action in motion.

[JackFavell]

You know, I agree completely with you Christy... except for the whiny feminists part.

I think a germ of an idea put itself in my head at the point when i saw that film too, that I could do something with my life.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Well, there are just some "activists" whose rhetoric seems hollow at times because their devotion to a topic had more to do with cash and fame than caring about others' plights.

Greer Garson just came full circle for me in many of her roles. And to extend the geometry metaphor, the others were a few degrees shy.

[JackFavell]

Yes, I see what you mean.

[Rita Hayworth]

Greer Garson, on the other hand, makes one of the most compelling screen-debuts ever! She's luminous and totally effective as Mrs. Chips. And we agreed with my friends that the film does not fall into being schmaltzy or overly sentimental. The MGM team did an excellent ensemble work.

Luminous is the key word. I will never forget how my mother always made so much fuss about movies and movie stars, and when Madame Curie first screened itself in my life, it transformed me in a way. It revealed that I had a choice, that I might have a profession and a job to do. Watching such an obviously beautiful lady succeed in a profession that was traditionally male-oriented illuminated a path for me to follow more than 10,000 interviews with Gloria Steinem would ever do. Some of the whiny liberal feminists who never had to support a family or balance a job with a hungry child never struck a common chord in my heart like Greer Garson's performances did.

There is nothing like an intellligent, gorgeous woman to set a plan of action in motion.

What you written here Sue Sue ... is so wonderfully written about Madame Curie and Greer Garson's performance in that movie. I consider that movie one of her best that she done in her career.