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| Teresa Wright |
"She has also always used this translucent face with delicate and exciting talent as an actress, and with something of a novelist’s perceptiveness behind the talent… This new performance of hers, entirely lacking in big scenes, tricks, or obstreperousness — one can hardly think of it as acting — seems to me one of the wisest and most beautiful pieces of work I have seen in years.”
... James Agee (1909-55), american author and film critic, reviewing The Best Years of Our Lives in The Nation, Dec. 1946
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| What time has wrought |
Asserting her seriousness as an actress, Wright insisted her contract contain unique clauses by Hollywood standards:
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Miss Wright was seated at her dressing table, and looked for all the world like a little girl experimenting with her mother's cosmetics. I had discovered in her from the first sight, you might say, an unaffected genuineness and appeal
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