Measurements: 36 B/C- 25- 38
Nominated for an Academy Award five years in a row: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945. She holds the record for most consecutive nominations with Bette Davis.
Played the wife of Walter Pidgeon a total of seven times; in Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Julia Misbehaves (1948), The Miniver Story (1950), and Scandal at Scourie (1953).
Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1990.
Replaced Rosalind Russell in the Broadway version of Auntie Mame in 1958.
She married Richard Ney after filming Mrs. Miniver (1942), in which he played her son.
She was a fan of the film Top Gun (1986).
Signed up by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer when he saw her acting on a London stage. [1937]
There is a Greer Garson Theater on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Greer also donated many of her papers and personal effects to the Southern Methodist University Jake and Nancy Hamon Library.
Tutored by Laurence Olivier during her theatre days in London.
Was a recipient of the prestigious TACA/Neiman-Marcus Silver Cup Award for her contributions to the arts in Dallas.
Was in consideration for the part of Susan Trexell in Susan and God (1940), but Joan Crawford was cast instead.
Was one of the notable celebrities, along with Rosey Roosevelt Grier, who actively supported RFK's candidacy in 1968, prior to his tragic death.
Well-known for activities on behalf of educational and cultural institutions.
While at MGM in the 1940s she said that she would liked to have been cast in more comedies rather than dramas, and was jealous that those roles were given to another redhead who recently signed with the studio, Lucille Ball. Ironically, Ball was dissatisfied at being overlooked for dramatic roles.