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Teresa is a 1951 American romantic drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Pier Angeli and John Ericson. The film's screenplay was written by Stewart Stern based on a story he wrote with Alfred Hayes , for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story .
Teresa is a 1951 American romantic drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Pier Angeli and John Ericson. The film's screenplay was written by Stewart Stern based on a story he wrote with Alfred Hayes, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.
Teresa (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Alone In The World From opening credits, young Philip (John Ericson) bolts from the unemployment office, races across Manhattan to a VA facility, where we learn he's a WWII vet, visiting counselor Frank (Rod Steiger, in his first credited movie role), in Fred Zinnemann's Teresa, 1951, starring Pier Angeli.
- Fred Zinnemann
- Pier Angeli
Summaries. A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US. American infantryman Philip Cass met Teresa Russo when he was stationed in the Russos' hometown, war-ravaged Bologna. Italy.
It was Brando's first film. Zinnemann filmed many scenes in a California hospital where real patients served as extras. It was followed by Teresa (1951), starring Pier Angeli. Perhaps Zinnemann's best-known work is High Noon (1952), one of the first 25 American films chosen in 1989 for the National Film Registry.
- 1932–1982
- Film director
Teresa (Pier Angeli) is the Italian bride of GI Philip (John Ericson), who is established from the outset as mentally disturbed. Taking Teresa home with him to New York, Philip begins to crack under the pressure of married life -- not to mention the angst brought to bear by his highly dysfunctional family. Awards.
discussed in biography. Zinnemann’s next film, Teresa (1951)—the story of an Italian war bride who encounters prejudice when she accompanies her U.S. soldier husband home—introduced another set of Hollywood newcomers, Pier Angeli (in the title role), Rod Steiger, and Ralph Meeker.