Greer Garson to Have Oscar Replaced

Actress Greer Garson will receive an Oscar statuette this fall to replace the one destroyed in a fire at her Los Angeles apartment last year, it was announced today.

Garson, who won the Academy Award for her 1942 performance in “Mrs. Miniver,� will receive the replacement from Karl Malden, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It will be presented Oct. 20 as part of the ceremonies inaugurating the Garson Communications Center and Studios at The College of Santa Fe.

The Oscar was lost in the fire, along with many other mementos of her career, when flames swept her apartment last year. Garson was hospitalized in Dallas at the time of the blaze.

Garson will be in Santa Fe for the opening of the center.

She and her late husband, Col. E. E. (Buddy) Fogelson, have been long-time supporters of the college, and it was her gift, made in 1989, that made the communications center and studios possible.