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.
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