Biography: Teresa Wright |
After apprenticing at the Wharf Theater in Provincetown, MA, she debuted on Broadway in 1938 as the lead's understudy in Our Town; the following year her performance in the ingénue part in Life With Father caught film mogul Samuel Goldwyn's... more
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Cast: Christopher Plummer Christopher Reeve
Tags: Romance Romantic Fantasy Fantasy
Length: 103min
Christopher Reeve got away from Superman and related costume roles in this dramatic fantasy film, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1960s vintage novel -Bid Time Return. A young playwright, Richard Collier (Reeve), is approached by an elderly woman on...
Tags: Ensemble Film Urban Drama Drama
Length: 103min
New York's Roseland ballroom was in 1977 the traditional gathering place of senior citizens who wanted briefly to relive the good old days. Appropriately, the cast of Merchant/Ivory's Roseland includes a quartet of always-welcome showbiz veterans:...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Diane Keaton Liam Neeson Leonard Nimoy
Tags: Courtroom Drama Feminist Film Drama Family Drama
Length: 104min
Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother living is Boston with her 6-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). She supports herself and her daughter by working part time in a lab and teaching piano. Her ex-husband Brian (James Naughton) is a...
Cast: Michael Douglas
Tags: Anti-War Film War Drama War Drama
Length: 97min
Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a...
Cast: Richard Brooks
Length: 112min
Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending. Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons) is married to Fred (John Forsythe) and she prepares for their 16th wedding-anniversary party with...
Cast: Henry Mancini
Length: 86min
Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play +Teach Me How to Cry by Patricia Joudry and reminiscent of the previous year's Peyton Place (1957). Sandra Dee stars as Melinda Grant, an...
The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
Cast: Louis Hayward
Tags: Psychological Drama Docudrama Drama
Length: 84min
The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who while under hypnosis insisted that she'd lived a previous life as an 18th century Irish housemaid named Bridey Murphy. The...
The Hour of Stars: Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
Tags: Fantasy Family Holiday Film
Length: 60min
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through September 1957. An anthology program, the series typically featured readaptations of 20th Century-Fox feature films for a...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Teresa Wright William Wellman John Wayne Tab Hunter
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 103min
In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of color on certain characters' bodies and clothes. On a snowbound ranch in northern California, the Bridges family is trapped by...
Tags: Drama Family Childhood Drama
Length: 93min
Filmed on location, Escapade in Japan stars child actors Jon Provost and Roger Nakagawa. Separated from their parents, Tony (Provost) and Hiko (Nakagawa) wander through such sites as a Shinto temple, the teeming streets of Kyoto and a geisha house....
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