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

It was there that Teresa Wright was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn who came to see her in the show Teresa Wright had been appearing in for almost a year. Goldwyn would later recall his first encounter with her backstage:
Goldwyn immediately hired the young actress for the role of Bette Davis' daughter in the 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes signing her to a five-year Hollywood contract with the Goldwyn Studios. In the 1950s Wright appeared in several unsuccessful films including The Capture (1950) Something to Live For (1952) California Conquest (1952) The Steel Trap (1952) Count the Hours (1953) The Actress (1953) and Track of the Cat (1954) opposite Robert Mitchum again.

Miniver. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1942 for her performance in Mrs.