Greer Garson
Susie `'Sparrow'` Parkington
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Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 drama film. It tells the story of a woman's life, told via flashbacks, from boarding house maid to society matron. The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield.
Mrs. Parkington: Directed by Tay Garnett. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead. A widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.
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- Drama, Romance
- Tay Garnett
- 1944-11
Summaries. A widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner. In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington.
Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A lady's maid marries a man whose prospects push her into high society. Cast & Crew. Read More. Tay Garnett. Director. Greer Garson. Susie [Graham] Parkington. Walter Pidgeon. Major Augustus Parkington. Edward Arnold. Amory Stilham. Agnes Moorehead. [Baroness] Aspasia Conti.
- Tay Garnett, Marvin Stuart
- Greer Garson
Mrs. Parkington ★★½ 1944Overblown epic drama spanning six decades tells the story of the rise and fall of an American dynasty made on easy money. Garson plays the woman who goes from working as a maid in a boarding house to living a life of luxury when she marries a multimillionaire.
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. [1] He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for ...
