Teresa Wright
Also Known As: Muriel Teresa Wright, Тереза Райт, Τερέζα Ράιτ
Biography: Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. Her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination came in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1942 for her performance in Mrs. Miniver. That same year, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in Pride of the Yankees opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Wright received three Emmy Award nominations for her performances in the Playhouse 90 original television version of The Miracle Worker (1957), in the Breck Sunday Showcase feature The Margaret Bourke-White Story, and in the CBS drama series Dolphin Cove (1989). She earned the acclaim of top film directors, including William Wyler, who called her the most promising actress he had directed, and Alfred Hitchcock, who admired her thorough preparation and quiet professionalism.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 27, 1918
Deathday: March 06, 2005
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Gender: Female
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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The Men
Overview: Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-25
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, her admiration turns into suspicion.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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The Steel Trap
Overview: Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-12
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The Rainmaker
Overview: When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Enchantment
Overview: Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Count the Hours!
Overview: A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Pursued
Overview: A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-02
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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The Little Foxes
Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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The Capture
Overview: A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-08
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Somewhere in Time
Overview: Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Casanova Brown
Overview: Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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The Happy Ending
Overview: The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-21
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Track of the Cat
Overview: A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-19
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Crawlspace
Overview: A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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The Actress
Overview: The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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Something to Live For
Overview: Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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The Restless Years
Overview: A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Good Mother
Overview: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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The Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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California Conquest
Overview: The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the Russians have established bases in the northern part of the state. To further their hold they have stolen guns and Don Arturo Bordega, a leader of those wanting statehood, is out to recover them.
Genres: Adventure History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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Escapade in Japan
Overview: A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
Overview: After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Roseland
Overview: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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The Imperfect Lady
Overview: A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-29
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Overview: A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-03
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The Elevator
Overview: A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elevator that is teetering on collapse.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-09
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The Trouble with Women
Overview: A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Angel Passing
Overview: An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he comes back to his home, now occupied by an artist, a touching bond develops for a few moments between them. Two strangers, one asking for forgiveness about his past, the other with the ability to forgive in her own life. A touching short, with very few words but deeply portrayed feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Overview: A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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Hail, Hero!
Overview: Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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Flood!
Overview: Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
Overview: Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-11
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No. 5 Checked Out
Overview: A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-18
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Overview: This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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The Edge of Innocence
Overview: An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Once to Every Woman
Overview: At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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The Desperate Hours
Overview: The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Exorcist III
Overview: On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Bill: On His Own
Overview: Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcoming the fire that accidentally destroyed his small canteen business, and then travels to California to search for the Morrows.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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The Golden Honeymoon
Overview: Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly... until Lucy meets her former fiancee who's also vacationing with his wife. Suddenly there's a comic competition between Charley and the old boyfriend for Lucy's attention. After fifty years, cantankerous Charley has to win his girl all over again!
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-04
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Morning's at Seven
Overview: In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Big Deal in Laredo
Overview: A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Overview: Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-02
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Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Overview: The cast and crew of Somewhere in Time (1980) looks back at the making of the movie in this documentary produced for the special features on the DVD Collector's Edition.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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