A Girl's Got To Breathe

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—to the writers Niven Busch ( The Postman Always Rings Twice ; Duel in the Sun ) and Robert Anderson ( Tea and Sympathy ; I Never Sang