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Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress.
She was born Muriel Teresa Wright in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Wright, who was an insurance agent. She grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. During her years at Columbia High School, she...
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Bill: On His Own
Bill: On His Own is a 1983 television biographical film starring Mickey Rooney as Bill Sackter.
This sequel was far less successful that the original 'Bill'.
Mrs. Miniver
Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English housewife...
Pursued
Pursued is a 1947 movie starring Robert Mitchum that combines western, film noir and psychological melodrama. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and photographed in black-and-white by James Wong Howe.
Set in New Mexico around the turn of the...
Shadow of a Doubt
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn.
Shadow of a...
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an American drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II.
Samuel Goldwyn was motivated to produce the film after his wife Frances read an August...
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have...
The Men
The Men is a 1950 film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It tells the story of a World War II lieutenant, who is seriously injured in combat, and the struggles he faces as he attempts to re-enter society. It stars Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, and Everett...
The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film directed by Sam Wood about the New York Yankees baseball player, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who had his career cut short at 37 years of age when he was stricken with the fatal disease amyotrophic...
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The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker is a 1997 American motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon. It is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.
Rudy Baylor is a graduate of. the University of Memphis Law School. Unlike most...
Track of the Cat
Track of the Cat is 1954 William A. Wellman film starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright. It was based on a 1949 adventure novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. This was Wellman's second adaptation of a Clark novel, the first being...
Roseland
Roseland is a 1977 Merchant Ivory Productions' portmanteau film with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant.
The film is made up of three connected short features, The Waltz, The Hustle...
Casanova Brown
Casanova Brown is a 1944 film starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Thomas Mitchell (the actor), Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, and directed by Sam Wood.
It was nominated for three Academy Awards; for Best...
The Good Mother
The Good Mother is a 1988 American film directed by Leonard Nimoy. The film explores the characters' feelings and beliefs about children's exposure to adult sexuality and challenges society's growing reliance upon courts to settle complex private...
Somewhere in Time
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 time travel romance film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, written by Richard Matheson and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright and featuring an early appearance by then-unknown William H...
The Actress
The Actress (1953) is a drama film based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play Years Ago. Gordon herself wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, and Anthony Perkins in his...
Enchantment
Enchantment (1948) is a romantic film starring David Niven and Teresa Wright. It was directed by Irving Reis and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It was based on the novel Take Three Tenses by Rumer Godden.
In World War II London, a bold American...
The Capture
The Capture is a 1950 drama film starring Lew Ayres and Teresa Wright. The story deals with an ex-oil worker driven by guilt at causing the death of an innocent man to find out the truth about a robbery.
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil...
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name. Hellman's ex-husband Arthur Kober and Dorothy Parker's husband Alan Campbell contributed...
The Steel Trap
The Steel Trap is a 1952 thriller film directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.
Joseph Cotten plays a bank officer that decides to rob his own bank and head to Brazil before he can be found out. Leaving with his wife (Teresa Wright), he finds it...
The Happy Ending
The Happy Ending is a 1969 film which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her marriage.
1953 - and through the course of a Colorado autumn and winter, Mary Spencer (Jean Simmons), and Fred Wilson, (John Forsythe),...
