Teresa Wright has passed away. She was the star of one of my favorite movies, “Shadow of a Doubt.”

Teresa Wright, the willowy actress who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando (news) and won a supporting Academy Award in 1942 for “Mrs. Miniver,” has died. She was 86.

Wright died Sunday of a heart attack at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, her daughter, Mary-Kelly Busch, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Wright’s career skyrocketed after her first film, “The Little Foxes,” which brought her an Oscar nomination as best supporting actress of 1941. The following year she was honored with two nominations: lead actress as the wife of Lou Gehrig in “The Pride of the Yankees” and supporting actress as Greer Garson (news)’s daughter-in-law in the wartime saga “Mrs. Miniver.”

She also starred in three other classics: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” in 1943; Brando’s first film, “The Men,” in 1950; and the multiple Oscar winner “The Best Years of Our Lives” in 1946. …
Wright stood out as an anomaly in a Hollywood era when glamour was demanded of actresses. She appeared on-screen as the dutiful daughter and supportive wife, never the seductress.

“I’m just not the glamour type,” she admitted in a 1950 interview. “Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don’t wear magnificent clothes. I’ll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.”

When a studio asked her to pose for “cheesecake” — the term for photos in bathing suits or other scanty attire — she declined.

“I argued that I didn’t have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake,” she said. “I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.” Source