Teresa Wright
Motion Pictures Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Teresa Wright
Television Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
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Teresa Wright
Award-winning actress Teresa Wright dies at 86
She got '42 Oscar for 'Mrs. Miniver'
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Teresa Wright, the willowy actress who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando and won a supporting actress Academy Award in 1942 for "Mrs. Miniver," has died. She was 86.
Wright died Sunday of a heart attack at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, her daughter, Mary-Kelly Busch, said yesterday.
Wright's career skyrocketed after her first film, "The Little Foxes," which brought her an Oscar nomination in 1941. The following year she was honored with two nominations: for lead actress as the wife of Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" and for supporting actress as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in the wartime saga "Mrs. Miniver."
She also starred in three other classics: Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" in 1943; Brando's first film, "The Men," in 1950; and the multiple Oscar winner "The Best Years of Our Lives" in 1946.
Later generations saw her in an occasional character role, including the eccentric, warmhearted Miss Birdie in the 1997 film version of John Grisham's "The Rainmaker," starring Matt Damon, and in 1988's "The Good Mother," with Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson.
Wright's lovely face, quiet manner and dramatic skill made her a popular leading actress. She appeared opposite Cooper in "The Pride of the Yankees" and "Casanova Brown," Robert Mitchum in "Pursued," David Niven in "Enchantment," Lew Ayres in "The Capture" and Cornel Wilde in "California Conquest."
Wright stood out as an anomaly in a Hollywood era when glamour was demanded of actresses. She appeared onscreen as the dutiful daughter and supportive wife, never the seductress.
Wright was born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1918, and grew up in Maplewood, N.J., where she showed promise in theatricals at Columbia High School. Her instructor persuaded Teresa's father to allow her to study for the summer at the famed Wharf theater in Provincetown, Mass.
Wright began her career in summer theater, then got a job as understudy to Dorothy McGuire, who had taken over the lead role in the hit play "Our Town." After touring in "Our Town," Wright won a role in another stage hit, "Life with Father."
