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A girl's got to breathe : the life of Teresa Wright / Donald Spoto.
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Spoto, Donald, 1941-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Description
xii, 263 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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PN2287.W75 S55 2016
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Actors
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United States
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Biography
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Wright, Teresa 1918-2005
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Series
Hollywood legends series
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Summary note
The actress Teresa Wright (1918-2005) lived a rich, complex, magnificent life against the backdrop of golden-age Hollywood, Broadway and television. There was no indication, from her astonishingly difficult--indeed, horrifying--childhood, of the success that would follow, nor of the universal acclaim and admiration that accompanied her everywhere. Her two marriages--to the writers Niven Busch and Robert Anderson--provide a good deal of the drama, warmth, poignancy and heartbreak of her life story. "I never wanted to be a star," she told biographer Donald Spoto in 1978, "I wanted only to be an actress." She began acting in summer stock and repertory at 18. When Thornton Wilder and Jed Harris saw her in an ingénue role, she was chosen to understudy the part of Emily in the original production of Our Town (1938), which she then played in touring productions. Samuel Goldwyn saw her first starring role on Broadway--in the historic production of Life with Father--and at once he offered her a long contract. She was the only actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for her first three pictures, and she won for the third, Mrs. Miniver. The circumstances of her tenure at Goldwyn, and the drama of her breaking that contract, forever changed the treatment of stars. Wright's family and heirs appointed Spoto as her authorized biographer and offered him exclusive access to her letters and papers. Major supporting players in this story include Robert Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler, Karl Malden, Elia Kazan, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Bette Davis, George Cukor, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, the artist Al Hirschfeld, Stella Adler and more.--Adapted from dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
Contents
March 4, 1943
1918-1935
1935-1939
1939-1941
1941-1942
1942-1944
1944-1948
1949-1952
1953-1957
1957-1959
1959-1965
1966-1973
1974-1978
1978-1984
1985-1990
1991-2005.
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ISBN
9781628460452 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1628460458 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015031971
OCLC
919202258
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