Want to know the best Teresa Wright movies? How about the worst Teresa Wright movies? Curious about Teresa Wright box office grosses or which Teresa Wright movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Teresa Wright movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Teresa Wright (1918-2005) was an Oscar®-winning American stage, film and television actress. Her IMDb page shows 85 acting credits from 1941-1997. This page will rank 27 Teresa Wright movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her many television appearances, her movies not released in North American theaters and a few 1950s movies are not included in our rankings. This page comes from a request by Greg.
Teresa Wright Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Column One is the name of the Teresa Wright movie and the link for the trailer for that movie
- Sort Teresa Wright films by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Teresa Wright films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Teresa Wright films by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Teresa Wright films by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Teresa Wright film received.
- Sort Teresa Wright films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Teresa Wright Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
- Eight Teresa Wright movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 30.77% of her movies listed. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Teresa Wright movie grossed $107.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 16 Teresa Wright movies are rated as good movies…or 61.53% of her movies. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was her highest rated movie while Hail, Hero! (1969) was her lowest rated movie.
- Nine Teresa Wright movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 34.61% of her movies.
- Three Teresa Wright movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 11.53% of her movies.
- An “a good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 12 Teresa Wright movies scored higher than that….or 46.15% of her movies. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while The Search For Bridey Murphy (1956) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Hello,
I never Heard about her, but i known some films …
It is a good work to remembered the name of the forgotten stars,
See you
Pierre
Hey Pierre…..glad our page was able to make you aware of her. She had a wonderful start to her career…..as the 1940s were filled with one great movie after another. After the 1940s things were not so bright….which is probably why she has not become very well known in your neck of the woods. Thanks for checking the page and posting your comment.
I have seen 10 Theresa Wright movies.
My favourite three films in order are:
Shadow of a Doubt
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mrs. Miniver
I have also seen:
Pride of the Yankees
The Little Foxes
The Steel Trap
The Actress
The Restless Years
The Men
Casanova Brown
I notice that Steve still has not seen The Best Years of Our Lives. Maybe one day. It is a wonderful movie.
Hey Flora
1. Wow…we are tied at 10….doing the happy dance….it is not too often I even get close to your tally count when it comes to a classic performer like this one.
2. Your top 3…is an awesome top 3….I have seen and liked all of them.
3. I have not seen The Men yet…..but I am sure I will do so in the future.
4. Gary Cooper and comedy were not a great match….so I really did not enjoy Casanova Brown that much.
5. I think Mrs. Miniver and Best Years of Our Lives are two movies that Steve will see eventually……I have my fingers crossed….lol.
Good comment.
1 I always considered Teresa bottom of A list/top of B list among the leading ladies of her day because if there was another important female star in the movie such as Davis, Loy or Garson, Teresa’s role would be secondary to that female. Teresa’s career faded in the 1950s and she was reduced to for example taking 3rd billing after Jean Simmons in Tracy’s flop The Actress (1953).
2 However her biographers claim that television was her salvation and in later years she also took on challenging stage work. I last saw her in her fina screen acting appearance of any kind the 1997 The Rainmaker and 3 years earlier in an episode of the Perry Mason TV series.in which she played a frail elderly woman who had survived the Nazi concentration camps.
3 In her prime Teresa was I thought , like Deanna, another one of those sweet-face butter-wouldn’t-melt-in her mouth beauties who were well suited to the Hollywood black and white films of yesteryear so I found her a great joy to watch. Also she will always have the historical distinction of being Marlon Brando’s 1st screen leading lady.
4 On top of that that she is the only performer ever to have received Oscar nominations for her 1st 3 movies [albeit in supporting roles] winning for Mrs Miniver as indicated in the table above. Accordingly I warmly welcome this new page. I liked the miniature still of Teresa and Dana Andrews on the upper part of this page and indeed I thought she looked a bit like Durbin in the two miniatures on display here.
Hey Bob
1. Part one: I actually (stop the presses) agree with your assessment of Teresa Wright.
2. Part two: Television might have been her salvation…..but her incredible run of movies in the 1940s is why people remember her…..what a decade she had. One day I will check out some of those Perry Mason/Murder She Wrote episodes.
3. If I would have done trivia for this one…..I would have mentioned her being one of the first stars for not only Brando….but Michael Douglas and Clint Eastwood…granted Eastwood was only briefly in his Wright movie.
4. Part 4……three in a row? that is another great candidate for some trivia. Glad you like the photo.
Thanks for sharing your thought on Mrs. Wright…it is greatly appreciated.
HI BRUCE
1 Since you and I are both in agreement it is worth keeping this exchange of posts going for just one more round!! Your table being its usual comprehensive presentation does of course faithfully register Teresa’s 3 noms including the win.and in fact the 3 movies concerned sit beside each other on the table before one uses sorter buttons to rank for example grosses.
2 As you say Teresa had a great 1940s but she suddenly hit a brick wall career wise when the 1950s dawned and two tokens of that abrupt decline are-
(1) In the 1947 Pursued she got billed above Mitchum probably because (a) he was newer than her to stardom and (b) her husband the US screenwriter and novelist Niven Busch wrote the film. However in the 1954 Track of the Cat the position was reversed and not only did Big Bob get billed above her but her name was in slightly smaller letters than his [see for example Wikipedia poster]
(2) Owing to her success in the 1940s she was of course well paid in that decade but when she asked for a fee of $125 thousand dollars for The Men she was told she was worth only $20 thousand and settled for that. The Men was of course a commercial flop
Hello Bruce,
Teresa wright is, so to speak, unknown in France. I’ve seen only three movise with her. Best Years of Our Lives (I really enjoyed it), who was a great success in France, like Mrs Miniver. I’ve seen Shadow of a Doubt too.
Track of the Cat was never release in France….
Hey Laurent…..I can see that Teresa would not be big in France. She was a very good supporting actress….not a person that could carry a movie by herself. Besides her low budget movies….there is not a single stand alone Wright movie on the table. Mrs. Miniver and Best Years of Our Lives are two of the highest rated movies in our UMR database. Good to see that they were successful in France too. Good comment….thanks for stopping by.
Hmm interesting. I’ve only seen three Teresa Wright movies, Shadow of a Doubt – Hitchcock’s favorite of his films – Track of the Cat and The Rainmaker.
I still have not seen Mrs. Miniver and… there’s that film again… The Best Years of Our Lives. I will watch them one day I promise. 🙂
Nice to see Shadow of a Doubt topping the critics list.
Good work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve
1. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
2. I have seen 10 of her movies….including her two highest rated movies Mrs. Miniver and Best Years of Our Lives. Both were huge money makers and both were in the select group of Best Picture Oscar Winning movies.
3. I did not know you had not seen those two movies……I did not realize that…lol.
4. Pride of the Yankees is a pretty good movie. Her other Gary Cooper movie, Casanova Brown might be my least favorite Cooper movie.
5. Glad you happy that Hitch’s Shadow of a Doubt top the critics list.
Good feedback as always.