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.
Teresa’s heyday was in the 1940s when she topped the bill in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, was billed above Mitchum in Pursued and had the plumb role of Dana Andrew’s love interest in Best Years of Our Lives. Her career declined sharply in the 1950s but her 1956 The Search for Bridey Murphy might well have found favor with Glenn Ford because it was about reincarnation, based as it was I think on the claims of the real-life Bridey who believed that she had lived a past life.
Best POSTERS California Conquest, Count the Hours, The Capture, Search for Bridey Murphy, Something to Live For, The Steel Trap [Teresa reunited with widow-murdering “Uncle Charlie” from Shadow of Doubt ] first one for The Actress, the foreign language ones for Pursued and The Men [aka Battle Stripe] and Enchantment , a rather raunchy poster for a Teresa Wright film back then!
I loved most if not all of your STILLS but certainly the following were perfect for my tastes (1) with Mitch in Pursued [screenplay by by her then-husband Niven Busch which maybe explains her 1st billing] (2) with Brando in his debut role. It’s possible that neither of them realized during the making of that low key film that Greatness beckoned to him. (3) with another Great, Bette, and Herbert Marshall in the Little Foxes (4) the lobby card for Mrs Miniver (5)looking every inch like my Deanna in Hitch’s classic with the widow-murdering Uncle Charlie, played by the man whose mentor the Great Welles called the greatest American actor of all time and (6) with my own firm 1950s favourite Dana in the 1946 Best Years of Our Lives.
With that last still you bring home to me bittersweet memories of how beautiful both Teresa and Dana s looked in their heyday. I can’t remember when I last saw HIM but I last watched the 72 year old Wright in a 1990 episode of Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason TV series and of course the dark, iconic beauty of the 1940s was long gone, what English writer Sir Philip Gibbs called “The spoils of time.”
A very short video compared with what we’ve gotten used to! But nevertheless as is said “Good things can come in small packages,” and this offering was easily worth 97% in my opinion. You and Wise Owl agree on all of Teresa’s Top 5 for critical review. Splendid profiles from both of you. Please see also on this page my post of Dec 5 2017 at 1.10 pm
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info and trivia, always appreciated.
Happy you enjoyed the picture gallery.
I’d almost forgot doing this video and it wasn’t that long ago.
Four Teresa Wright movies scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Best Years of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Mrs. Miniver and Pride of the Yankees. Two more scored 9 – The Men and The Little Foxes.
Tops at IMDB is The Little Foxes, no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes is Shadow of a Doubt. Bruce’s chart topper matches mine, The Best Years of Our Lives.
I only saw 8. wasn’t the gipper about a president who pretended to be an actor. LOL. just saw dark victory and kings row with that same president. mrs miniver is my favourite Teresa wright movie , shadow of a doubt second , best years of our lives third, pride of the Yankees 4th. little foxes great but too dark.
Just added Steve’s new Teresa Wright video to this page. Our comment on his video channel.
“Teresa Wright had a wonderful 1940s…so many great movies. I like the music. My first match…#17 Casanova Brown….a Cooper misfire….never liked his attempts at comedy. #14 Track of the Cat….looks awesome…colors jump off the screen #11 Enchantment…a wonderful romance #10 The Rainmaker….ok legal drama #9 Somewhere in Time….WoC likes this one…ALOT! #5 Pride of the Yankees….one of the best baseball movies ever #4 The Little Foxes….good Davis movie #3 Mrs. Miniver and #1 Best Years of Our Lives…Best Picture Winners….have you seen yet? #2 Shadow of a Doubt….good Hitch movie. So that is 9 of her movies….or 36%. Attached to our Wright page. Voted up.”
Thanks Bruce, appreciate the comment, vote and share.
I still haven’t seen Best Years and Mrs. Miniver, I will, one day. Your tally beats mine, I’ve seen just 3 of her films. Flora has seen 10. I should give Pride of the Yankees a look too. Is that the one with the ‘The Gipper’? [Bruce winces] Shadow of a Doubt is easily my favorite movie here.