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      Mrs. Parkington

      Released Oct 12, 1944 2h 4m Drama List
      Reviews 72% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Now in her 80s, Susie Parkington (Greer Garson) recalls her marriage six decades earlier, which was followed by the revelation that her husband, Augustus (Walter Pidgeon), was still romantically entangled with French Baroness Aspasia Conti (Agnes Moorehead). She also looks back on the untimely passing of her mother and one of her children, two of the defining events of her life. And with her adult son needing a cash infusion to save his skin, she ponders the fate of her fortune. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 17 Buy Now

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      Elena de la Torre Cine-Mundial An ideal pairing of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. [Full review in Spanish] Sep 19, 2019 Full Review Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks Proof that the Academy has always a reserved a certain quota of its major nominations for films for which I doubt even their makers wished profoundly to be remembered. Rated: C- Jan 8, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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      steve d Forgettable and there was little plot. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review ashley h Mrs. Parkington is an excellent film. It is about a widowed matriarch who reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon give amazing performances. The screenplay is well written. Tay Garnett did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the drama and romance. Mrs. Parkington is a must see. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review s r A cute romance about rags to riches and husband wife struggles. It grew on me. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Good classic movie. Nice story that moves fast through the lives of a family of a rich guy meets poor girl drams. Some of the characters were hard to figure out who they were such as Amory - the corrupt money-hungry guy. Or, what was Peter Lawford's role? Anyway, fun money to watch without bad language, sex, violence and vulgarity of 2015 movies. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Tay Garnett's resplendent black-and-white MS. PARKINGTON represents one of eight Garson-Pidgeon star-vehicles, it is a vintage family saga of our titular heroine Susie Parkington (Garson), a rich matron starts with a humble beginning as a chambermaid, when a mine explosion takes her mother's life away, out of guilt and admiration, Major Augustus Tarkington (Pidgeon) marries her and spirits her away to New York, so she can get a luxurious life a woman can ever dream of. She gets some advice to adopt the lifestyle of beau monde from a French aristocrat Baroness Aspasia Conti (Moorehead), who is also Major's confidant. And a new but tumultuous page of life opens and Susie gives her best shot to manage a perfect marriage with a dignitary and grows up to be an exemplar who knows and accomplishes a woman's true worth, heightened by a dramatic presentation of an inopportune situation when most of their dinner guests are in absentia for their fancy reception and bookended by a vignette in London involves Edward, Prince of Wales (Kellaway). keep reading my review on my blog: http://wp.me/p1eXom-1VQ Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Greer Garson aged herself for this film and was aged in terms of her own acting career. I don't think the performance was anything to write home about and I suspect her Oscar nomination was a give away to a loyal performer. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Now in her 80s, Susie Parkington (Greer Garson) recalls her marriage six decades earlier, which was followed by the revelation that her husband, Augustus (Walter Pidgeon), was still romantically entangled with French Baroness Aspasia Conti (Agnes Moorehead). She also looks back on the untimely passing of her mother and one of her children, two of the defining events of her life. And with her adult son needing a cash infusion to save his skin, she ponders the fate of her fortune.
      Director
      Tay Garnett
      Distributor
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Production Co
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 12, 1944, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 22, 2009
      Runtime
      2h 4m
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