Teresa Wright Movies: Deceptively Demure Heroine in The Little Foxes, The Pride of the Yankees and Alfred Hitchcock drama Shadow of a Doubt.
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Teresa Wright was one of the ‘Oldest’ Oscar Winners and the earliest surviving Best Supporting Actress winner at the time of her death.
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Teresa Wright: From Broadway triumph (minus Tony nomination) to cult classic Somewhere in Time and The Rainmaker with Matt Damon.
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Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando Leading Lady to spinsters and Mother Roles (Jean Simmons, Sandra Dee) in less than 5 years and The Miracle Worker.
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Teresa Wright in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Mammoth Blockbuster was Career Highlight as stardom slipped shortly afterwards.
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Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in his favorite film now a classic but not so ardently received upon its release.
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Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees - feat still unmatched.
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Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) 20th Anniversary…
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Lifeboat cast (top) and Shadow of a Doubt cast (bottom): Alfred Hitchcock mid-1940s classics. Even though I’ve never been a major Alfred Hitchcock fan, I do find the vast majority of…
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The Little Foxes (1941) movie review: Bette Davis heads a flawless cast in William Wyler’s masterful adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s stage classic. The Hands That Bilked America: To not choose…
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An experimental cult classic and a Glenn Ford star vehicle are among new DVDs featuring long-unseen titles with a little-known John Wayne connection.
Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.
William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford,…
Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood - but with an undercurrent of disaffection.