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Teresa Wright - NYT Obit
New York TImes ^ | March 8, 2005 | Douglas Martin

Posted on 03/09/2005 10:59:31 AM PST by rcocean

teresa Wright, the high-minded ingénue who marshaled intelligence and spunk to avoid being typecast as another 1940's "sweater girl" and became the only actor to be nominated for Academy Awards for her first three films, died on Sunday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She was 86.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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A good write-up on a great actress.
1 posted on 03/09/2005 10:59:31 AM PST by rcocean
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To: nutmeg

read later


2 posted on 03/09/2005 10:59:54 AM PST by nutmeg (democRATs = The Party of NO)
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To: rcocean
The cause was a heart

The result was a stop

3 posted on 03/09/2005 11:01:15 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: nutmeg

Need to "log in" later


4 posted on 03/09/2005 11:02:03 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: rcocean
...1940's "sweater girl"...

Ok. Where is obligatory pic of her 'sweater girl' look?

5 posted on 03/09/2005 11:06:29 AM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

There aren't any - she refused to do them.


6 posted on 03/09/2005 11:10:26 AM PST by rcocean
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To: rcocean

She was one hot babe in 'Shadow of a Doubt.'


7 posted on 03/09/2005 11:19:32 AM PST by GianniV
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She was in some unbelievable good movies at a very early stage in her career: Pride of the Yankees, Best Years of our Lives, Mrs. Miniver.

Didn't realize she was still around.


8 posted on 03/09/2005 11:19:52 AM PST by Cousin Eddie
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To: rcocean

Thanks for this, for some reason I had thought she had died previously. RIP


9 posted on 03/09/2005 11:47:36 AM PST by Fudd Fan (MaryJo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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