A Girl's Got To Breathe: The Life of Teresa Wright

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 provide a good deal of the drama, warmth, poignancy and heartbreak of her life story.

She began acting on the stage in summer stock and repertory at the age of eighteen. Samuel Goldwyn saw her first starring role on Broadway 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 film. 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 for this unique book.

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