Walter pidgeon greer garson

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon were the epitome of enduring love. In the majority of their films together they played married couples, a husband and wife perfectly balanced :Garson’s dignified but gentle and kind nature opposite Pidgeon’s strong and stable nature. They were a match made in MGM Studio’s heaven and were one of Hollywood’s most durable box-office teams. Off screen they were life-long friends. ”I did eight pictures with that gal and we never had a bad word between us,” Pidgeon once told an interviewer.

In 1937, during a trip to London, MGM’s head Louis B. Mayer’s noticed Greer Garson in a dramatic play called “Old Music”, and being very much impressed with her demeanor he quickly signed her to a contract. MGM had recently scored successes with Boys Town and Men of Boys Town, two films dealing with child welfare, and so, in 1940, Louis B. Mayer decided that adapting Ralph Wheelwright’s best selling nov