Oral history interview with Teresa Wright, 1959

Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

Amateur training; professional career with OUR TOWN; comparison of stock and repertory theater; film direction by Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler, Sam Wood and Elia Kazan; leading roles and character parts; social life in Hollywood; evaluating stories; publicity. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Acting.
• Actresses--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater.
• Wright, Teresa, 1918-2005--Interviews.