Teresa Wright

she was absolutely amazing

barbara stanwyck = most *rawr* individual ever

My favorite Wright moment is in "The Best Years of our Lives." She and Dana Andrews are very touching; and I love how subtly she and mom Myrna Loy suggest that they don't recognize (or empathize) their father/husband anymore, even while smiling and genuinely loving him.

Yeah, I think Stanwyck is the greatest Hollywood film actress ever, there's really no competition. Bette Davis? Hepburn? I've never seen her be less than compelling in anything, and she's totally convincing in the flawed-but-fun "Ball of Fire," which was also photographed by the great Gregg Tolan. Sexy, intelligent...perfection. In my opinion, Laura Linney kinda has that same aura these days.

My favorite Hitchcock film, strangely, is "The Lady Vanishes." That has nothing to do with Teresa Wright, though.

stanwyck is incredible. i especially like her in "the bitter tea of general yen" and "stella dallas." also (i've written this a zillion times), she is unutterably gorgeous.

anyway, back to teresa wright:

Film critic James Agee even singled out Wright's performance as particularly noteworthy in his review of THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES for The Nation (December 28, 1946): "I cannot ... resist speaking briefly ... of Teresa Wright. Like Frances Dee, she has always been one of the very few women in movies who really had a face. Like Miss Dee, she has also always used this translucent face with delicate and exciting talent as an actress, and with something of a novelist's perceptiveness behind the talent. And like Miss Dee, she has never been around nearly enough. This new performance of hers, entirely lacking in big scenes, tricks, or obstreperousness -- one can hardly think of it as acting -- seems to me one of the wisest and most beautiful pieces of work I have seen in years. If the picture had none of the hundreds of other things it has to recommend it, I could watch it a dozen times over for that personality and its mastery alone."

Goldwyn wanted to give Wright the usual fanfare, but listen to the then-infamous clause 39 she had placed in her contract: "The aforementioned Teresa Wright shall not be required to pose for photographs unless she is in the water. Neither may she be photographed on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: In shorts, playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding skyrockets for the Fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf; assuming an athletic stance while preparing to hit something with a bow and arrow...."

after seeing Shadow of a Doubt for the first time last fall I haven't gotten Teresa Wright out of my mind... I watched The Best Years of Our Lives recently and Pursued tonight - former obviously classic, latter is really strange, she's great in it, but too much Mitchum... anyway I found this episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour that was she was on in the early 60s. it was startlingly to see her nearly 20 years older. i started crying when she said good morning to the squirrel http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z01em

Teresa Wright is in the final shot of Abbas Kiarostami's final film, 24 Frames, via the final shot from The Best Years of Our Lives.

Just saw her and Robert Mitchum in Raoul Walsh’s The Pursued, written by her husband at the time, Niven Busch, and similar in tone to another script of his for The Furies, which also featured Judith Anderson. Fantastic. You can watch on Plex, seems to be a German print via ZDF.

SPÄTE RACHE is the German title. Which literally means Late or Belated Revenge.

Saw The Best Years of Our Lives for maybe the fourth or fifth time last night at the Paris Theater– with Kenneth Lonergan doing an intro and Q&A– and confirmed once again that her performance is a standout. Feel like her and Fredric March were both on a higher plane of acting.

March is my least favorite of the leads, I confirmed during my TCM watch last night, and he's still excellent. Dana Andrews, Wright, Myrna Loy -- wow.

Think I finally need to watch Virginia Mayo with Burt Lancaster in Jacques Tourneur's The Flame and the Arrow.

Maybe you should start a Dana Andrews thread.

Donald Spoto wrote an authorized biography of Teresa Wright in which he refers to her as "one of my closest friends."

There are now not one but two books about TBYooL. Think I might borrow the more expensive one from the library but buy the other one.

Maybe you should start a Dana Andrews thread.

― The Man Who Sold the Unisphere (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, May 25, 2026

Inhabited by two posters.

I reskimmed Geoffrey O'Brien's piece on him, which seems to me definitive.

Might be more posters, you never know. Just look at the George Brent thread.

Just skimmed BFI book on TBYooL. Pretty good!

2022 book looks good as well

And found a good post here: Are there any actors whose output you follow closely?