![]() ![]() What a wonderful actress! No surprise that she is superb here and could easily have won a Best Actress Oscar for this role as she shortly did for her classic performance as "Mrs. Greer Garson is a dream as Paula - beautiful and full of caring and compassion. We sympathize with them, we laugh with them, we cry with them, and we wish above all for them to overcome impossible obstacles as they find love, lose one another, and then (hopefully) find one another and rekindle their love again. These main characters are called upon to convey the widest possible range of human emotions and they do so in a thoroughly engaging way. They are entirely believable in a story that certainly has some very tricky plot elements. Let's just focus on the acting - Ronald Colman and Greer Garson have matchless screen chemistry. "Random Harvest" is a superb film in many ways. The time between their first meeting, & final happy reunion, was 18 years. She cries out, Oh Smithy, Oh Darling, he turns, & sees her, & slowly recognition comes, & he cries out Paula, & they are in each other’s arms. She follows him & finds him at the home they shared. She finds out Charles is asking questions of Shopkeepers, which leads her to believe Charles memory is returning. She wants to visit the Town where they married as Smithy & Paula, & were so happy. Margaret is holidaying there, before going overseas, for a short break from the stress of the situation. The Steelworks is next to the Asylum he had escaped from. Margaret hopes by marrying him, he will fall in live with her, & his memory will return.After a number of years, nothing changes, & Margaret is broken hearted.Ĭharles eventually is required to go to the Steelworks he owns, to settle a dispute. ![]() This sad state affairs continues for many years, then Charles proposes Marriage to Margaret, as he puts it a business merger, with no emotional strings attached. She is warned not to tell Smithy, now known by his former name, Charles Rainier, that he was her Husband, as it may cause him shock, & cause severe mental problems. She is broken hearted, to find ( Smithy ) has no memory of her, & their love. Shock, who applies for the job, it’s Paula, now reverted to her birhname, Margaret Hanson. He advertises for someone to do his Officeworks, & all other work required in his new position. He resumes his old life as a son of a wealthy family, who lived at Random Hall, & continues on with life, & eventually becomes becomes an owner of a large Steelworks. He regains hi memory of his life before the war. Smithy seems to have a gift for writing, & he is invited to join the Staff on a Newspaper, but as he attempts to cross a road to the Newspaper Office, he is knocked down, & loses his recent memory of Smithy, Paula, & baby Son. They fall in love, & marry, & have a Baby son. After travelling a long distance with him, they find a lovely Guest House to live in, away from danger. She risks all, even gives up her career, to keep him safe. Paula is a Showgirl, sings, & dances on stage, then takes Smithy home with her, to protect him from the law. ![]() She then becomes his friend, & protector, calls him Smithy, as he has no other name. Trouble averted, Paula, a vision in loveliness, appears in shop, & alerts him to the danger, & guides him out of the shop. The story opens with the day Armistice is declared, & during the celebrations, the Asylum gates are accidentally left open, & the inmate escapes, & finds his way to a Tobacconists Shop, where he is in danger of being reported, & returned to the Asylum. He is confined to an Asylum, as there is no other suitable Hospital for him. Greer plays Paula Wridgeway/ Margaret Hanson, costarring with Robert Coleman, as an Amnesiac, caused through Shell Shock in the trenches, in WW1. I’m a Greer Garson Tragic, this woman was like no other, beautiful, lovely speaking voice, & an excellent Actress. ![]()
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