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
Tom Conway Man of Borneo" (1941). He had a bigger part in "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1941) then was back to small parts in "Free and Easy" (1941), "The Bad Man" (1941), "The People vs. Dr. Kildare" (1941), and "Lady Be Good" (1941). Conway was a villain in "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941), "Mr. and Mrs. North" (1941) and "Rio Rita" (1942). He was a murder suspect in "Grand Central Murder" (1942) and had an uncredited bit in "Mrs. Miniver" (1942). At RKO, Conway's brother George Sanders had starred in three popular "B" movies as "The Falcon". Sanders was getting sick of