Walter Pidgeon of his better known roles was in "The Dark Command", where he portrayed the villain (loosely based on American Civil War guerrilla William C. Quantrill) opposite John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and a young Roy Rogers. It was not until he starred in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) that his popularity returned. He then starred opposite Greer Garson in "Blossoms in the Dust" (1941), "Mrs. Miniver" (1942) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor) and its sequel, "The Miniver Story" in 1950. He was also nominated in 1944 for "Madame
Mrs. Miniver's problem Mrs. Miniver's problem Mrs. Miniver's problem is a geometry problem about circles. Given a circle "A", find a circle "B" such that the area of the lens formed by intersecting their two interiors is equal to the area of the symmetric difference of "A" and "B" (the sum of the areas contained in one but not both circles). The problem derives from "A Country House Visit", one of Jan Struther's newspaper articles featuring her character Mrs. Miniver. According to the story: She saw every relationship as a pair of intersecting circles. It would seem at first glance that the more