She guesses he is from the asylum, but as he seems harmless, she arranges for him to join her traveling theatrical group. In town, he is befriended by a singer with the stage name Paula Ridgeway. Greer Garson from the trailer for Random Harvest On the day the war ends, the asylum's gatekeepers abandon their posts to join the celebration in the nearby Midlands town of Melbridge, and Smith wanders away.

In the last days of the First World War, a British officer who had been gassed in the trenches and lost his memory is confined to an English asylum as 'John Smith', an unidentified inmate. Garson, whose performance was well-received, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but won that year for her role in Mrs. The film was an instant commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Susan Peters, Best Director for Mervyn LeRoy and Best Picture. The film stars Ronald Colman as a shellshocked, amnesiac World War I veteran, and Greer Garson as his love interest. This meant that the movie had to take a very different approach to the story. The novel keeps the true identity of Paula/Margaret a secret until the very end, something that would have been impossible in a film, where characters’ faces must be seen. Claudine West, George Froeschel, and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination. Random Harvest is a 1942 American romantic drama film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same title, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

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