Mrs. Miniver (character) the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of Britain as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images. To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime. In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
Mrs. Ted Bliss Ford), " Galatea 2.2" (by Richard Powers, "Moo" (by Jane Smiley), and "The Tent of Orange Mist" (by Paul West). Elkin had earlier won in the same category for his 1982 novel "George Mills". Mrs. Ted Bliss Mrs. Ted Bliss is a 1995 novel by American author Stanley Elkin, published by Hyperion Books. It concerns the last eventful years in the life of an old widow. Elkin won the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category for this work. Mrs. Dorothy Bliss is an old woman in her early 80s living alone in a retirement community near