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Popcorn and Ping-Pong. Two years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence...
...night Fate scratched timorously at Ca-Reer Garson's dressing-room door. There was a man to see her. "If it's stockings," called Miss Garson, "I don't want any." "Beggin' your pardon, Miss," said the stage doorkeeper, "He's from Mr. Mayer." "Hyphens and all?" gasped Miss Garson...
...Louis B. Mayer, Greer soon found, was not a corporation. He loathed the show, but he liked Greer very much. Actress Garson had her stage career, to be sure. But had she ever seriously reflected on the immensely greater significance of the cinema? She thought she was not photogenic...
...There's nobody," said Louis B. Mayer flatly, "who can't be photographed." Salary? Miss Garson held out for-and (reputedly) got-$500 a week, which was (reputedly) the biggest salary ever paid a beginner in films. Soon she was in Hollywood. A little later, she was in hell...
Neurosis in Limbo. For the first time in two years of unremitting work, this taut-nerved, physically unstable young woman who lived on work had nothing to do. There were tests for various pictures. Nothing came of them. Miss Garson sank into that terrifying limbo, known to many Hollywood newcomers, of the regularly paid, politely Forgotten Woman. Years before, she had injured her spine. It began to hurt her again. She wore one thick and one thin-soled shoe, hobbled like a crone, went outdoors only at night. For months, she says, "My only screen tests were X rays...