08/04/2016, Mrs Miniver.

I couldnt have wished for a nicer welcome home today.Mrs Miniver was on TV in the afternoon,just as I was ready to have lunch.It is a 1942 black and white film with Oscar-winning Greer Garson in the title role.It is a kind of gentle propaganda about a day to day life of a middle class English family during the Second world war. Greer Garson is one of my favourite actresses.Not a classic beauty,but unconventionally lovely with a kind of mouth you either like or don't like.She is classy and elegant in an understated,nonthreatening way.She played the heroine in Pride and Prejudice to Lawrence Olivier's Mr Darcy,who,by the way,didn't want her as Elizabeth.The black and white version of Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson is my absolute favourite film.I know,I know,The Godfather and such like are at the top of the tree for most of us ....but I am not most of us. And Mrs Miniver is certainly in the top ten films so utterly charming and enjoyable to watch, when one just wants to curl up and think of nothing ugly or bad or complicated.And by the way,Mr Churchill,yes,that Mr Churchill,thought very highly of Mrs Miniver. And I think most highly of Mr Churchill. Ruth Wilson ,an actress,who exploded on the small screen in LUTHER, also has fascinating mouth, it seems to have a life of its own,when watching her I am transfixed! And the actress is proving to be quite a classy act,with accolades in Hollywood.