Mrs. Miniver (character) the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of Britain as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images. To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime. In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
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