Greer Garson of World War II in "Mrs. Miniver". ("Guinness Book of World Records" credits her with the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, after which the Academy Awards instituted a time limit.) In 1942, Garson also co-starred in the powerful, dramatic film "Random Harvest" with Academy Award winner Ronald Colman. Set at the end of World War I with Ronald Colman as a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier and Greer Garson as his love interest, "Random Harvest" received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It lost to "Mrs. Miniver", and Garson won the Academy Award for that role.
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