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.
Harold F. Kress also became a film editor. After suffering from cancer for a number of years, Kress died in Palm Desert, California on September 18, 1999 at the age of 86. Kress was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1941), "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), and "The Yearling" (1947). Kress won his first Academy Award for "How the West Was Won" (1962). He was nominated again for "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), and would win again for the 1974 action film "The Towering Inferno" with son Carl Kress. Only a handful of editors have received more