Episode 27 – 'The Steel Trap'&Teresa Wright - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

Starting the new format of revolving guests, in this week’s discussion co-host Lani Gonzalez picks the actress Teresa Wright, the only performer to ever receive Academy Award nominations for each of her first three films, and in particular her film The Steel Trap. On today’s episode we dive deep into this 1952 film co-starring Joseph Cotton, her Shadow of a Doubt co-star from nine years previous, its writer/director Andrew L. Stone, and other films of Wright’s, from Pride of the Yankees to The Best Years of Our Lives. We also talk her bucking a contract with Samuel Goldwyn for artistic reasons at a time when actors were being dumped by producers, her stage work, and the unique appeal her acting brought to the dignity of so-called “ordinary” women immediately following the end of World War II.

Gonzalez writes about film for both Book and Film Globe and, alongside her husband AJ, their blog Cinema Then and Now.

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