Top 5 Teresa Wright Movies

On October 27, 1918, the renowned American actress Teresa Wright was born, who managed to be nominated for the Oscars in her first three films, a difficult fact to overcome, winning once in the category of best supporting actress.

She studied dramatic arts and began her acting career on the stage. During a tour producer Samuel Goldwyn saw her performance and hired her immediately.

Due to her sweet and sensitive appearance, she was typecast in character roles that met this requirement, failing to establish herself as a star and in 1959 she left the cinema, dedicating herself sporadically to television, winning several Emmy awards.

During his career he collaborated with the directors of the time (Wyler and Alfred Hitchcock), as well as with actresses like Bette Davis and actors like Marlon Brando and Joseph Cotten, to name a few.

On March 6, 2005, this remarkable actress died, of whom we mention five of her great cinematographic interventions.

5- The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood, 1942)

Wright plays the wife of legendary American professional baseball player Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) who, after playing for many years without missing a single game, is suddenly diagnosed with a mysterious illness. She again the actress was nominated for an Oscar as supporting actress, in this film she received 11 nominations in total. The film enjoys excellent manufacturing that allows it to rise and achieve the goal of paying homage to this sports figure, from an impeccable direction, accompanied by a spectacular photograph by Wood (whom many attribute to him the success of “Gone with the Wind”). ”) and two high-class actors such as Gary Cooper and Teresa herself

4 – The Little Foxes (William Wyler, 1941)

A calculating and ruthless woman who lives in a southern town in the United States (Bette Davis), begins a fight with her brothers to seize a family inheritance, regardless of what her husband thinks, an honest man who only finds comfort in his loving daughter (Teresa Wright). For this film the actress received one of her three nominations as a supporting actress. Wyler achieves a perfect communion with her cast, forging sequences that histrionically look very intense and ahead of her time, avoiding the certain stiffness of that time. One of the gringo melodramas with the best manufacturing, photography and performances in history.

3 – The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)

In this film, considered one of the best about the social consequences suffered by the soldiers who returned from the Second World War, after having been considered heroes, the actress plays the daughter of one of these soldiers who suffers marginalization and who becomes falls in love with another soldier returned from the front. The pinnacle of Wyler’s psychological and emotional introspection, combined with the subject with which she practically developed her thesis to become one of the greats of world filmography: The War. The story is so crude and perhaps even premature. Seven Oscar awards, including the best film, confirm its impact

2 – Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler, 1942)

For this film starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon and Teresa Wright, the latter was awarded the Oscar for best supporting actress. The story tells the life of a modest housewife in rural England, affected by World War II. Very good the work of Wright, in the role of the granddaughter of the protagonist, in this film considered cultural heritage of American cinematography, and where Wyler took advantage of the conflict to build the most subtle (and one of the best) film on propaganda British – war in history, a narrative compendium of exquisite dramatic charge that ended up also taking the best film

1 – Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)

Wright plays in this tape of the master of suspense, the niece of uncle “Charly”, an enigmatic family member who comes to visit his house after years of absence and of whom he knows nothing about his activities, he ends up suspecting that it is a criminal wanted by the police. The role of Teresa (her dreamy and naive niece) gains strength from the moment when the police inspector alerts her to the possibility that her uncle has a dark side to her, which she initially cannot. to accept. In addition, her formidable performance subtly but masterfully suggests something more than affection between niece and uncle, an element that increases the tension and gives a more complex meaning to the ending.

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