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THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. MIMER
She has Irish wit, a sherry taste — and legs, but H'wood hides Greer's light under a bustle!
tireer Garson didn't want to play Mrs. Miniver. Which has so humbled her esteem of her own judgment that she'll probably never voice another opinion. Till this humility passes. Miss Garson has the tongue of the Irish. You think you've got it pinned down, and lo! it mocks you from the other side of the fence.
The fact remains that she didn't want to play Mrs. Miniver. Having read the book, she thought the lady delightful. And real. She has aunts like Mrs. Miniver. Twenty years hence she might be Mrs. Miniver herself. Right now she's too young and gay. Anyway, we take it back. Twenty years hence she'll still be Greer Garson, whatever name she may have added in the interval. She's got the Miniver brand of grace and breeding, but her own lilt. Miniver's a still pool. Garson 's a stream, with the sun dancing on it.
In the course of events she received a script, and there discovered that one of Mrs. M.'s vague, small children had grown into manhood and was coming down from Oxford to acquire a wife. This took
her aback. Sidney Franklin, the producer, came over to give her a sales talk.
"No, I've just playe.d a matron. I don't think I should play another at once."
"But this thing was bought for you, written for you."
She shook her head. "It was bought and written for Mrs. Chips. I'm not Mrs. Chips."
She did suggest a possible way out. If they'd let her use character make-up — interesting horn-rims, say — she liked horn-rims. No, they wanted her to play it straight. "Like this?" {Continued on page 76)
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Insiders say-she'll wed Richard Ney (her son in "Mrs. Miniver"), but Greer won't tell. Confides she's off cigars for life! They made her light one in a wifely way for Mr. Miniver, and on the 3rd take, she turned so green, they got scared!