Maureen O'Hara O'Hara beat Lauren Bacall to the role as she was busy with other engagements. Though the film was critically acclaimed, Crowther of "The New York Times" felt that the characters of O'Hara and the daughter could have been made "more humorous and spirited than they are". The following year, O'Hara appeared in the CBS television film, "Mrs. Miniver", but despite some critics approving her performance, most thought that the remake was ill-timed and that she could not top Greer Garson's performance in the 1942 Oscar-winning film. In 1961, O'Hara portrayed Kit Tilden in the western "The Deadly Companions", Sam Peckinpah's
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