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March 25, 2009

AMY WRIGHT: 'LOOK AT THOSE 'PEE-CAN' EYES AND GO CRAZY!' [BIO + CLIP OF FAVORITE SCENE from WISE BLOOD [JOHN HUSTON , 1979: CRITERION DVD - finally!]

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Wise Blood

Chicago, Illinois
4/15/1950
Amy Wright
Wise
Blood


As
sexually frantic, Sabbath Lily,, Enoch Emory's [Harry Dean Stanton] righteous 15-year-old daughter, Amy Wright, reached heights of intentional overkill, akin only to a few Tennessee Williams' film adaptations, or possibly Olivier's role in Richard III.

With
Criterion's DVD already in UK stores, and coming to the US, it will be possible for audiences, thirty years denied, to view Amy Wright and BRAD DOURIF's performance thirty thousand movies late, to find what made her great, but unfortunately obscure!

Wright
married
Rip Torn,
1976



The couple have two daughters:

(Claire Torn, b. 1992 + Katie Torn, b. 1982)

Wright is a graduate of Beloit College and the University of Chicago Laboratory School.
Studied with Uta Hagen.

Broadway: FIFTH OF JULY and NOISES OFF

Off Broadway: MRS. KLEIN with Uta Hagen


Rip Torns
Sanctuary Theatre


HAMLET
MISS JULIE
THE STRONGER
A VILLAGE WOOING...

Wright currently is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City.
Course Teacher Day Time
Performance LabAmy WrightWednesday/Friday10:00am - 12:00pm

http://www.hbstudio.org/



Amy Wright gave up her position as teacher to pursue her dream in New York as actress. Elfin in quality with an intriguing, gap-toothed look, the child-like blonde actress found almost immediate reassurance as an apprentice at actor Rip Torn's Sanctuary Theater, making her stage debut in the company's 1975 production of "Agnes and Joan."
Amy and her much older mentor (married to theater legend, Geraldine Page) began a clandestine personal relationship which produced two daughters.
Torn never divorced Ms. Page. His longtime relationship with Amy was exposed shortly before his wife's sudden death of a heart attack in 1987.
Amy and Torn married. [Amy appeared with both Torn and Ms. Page in August Strindberg's short plays "Miss Julie", "Creditors" and "The Stronger" in 1977 in repertory at the Hudson Guild Theatre.]


Amy's sweetly countrified look and demeanor inspired a number of standout performances in quality productions.


At age 26, she earned major attention on stage playing a crippled teen in a successful revival of Lanford Wilson's "The Rimers of Eldrich" in 1976. In 1978 Wilson wrote the stage part of 13-year-old, Shirley Tally in his acclaimed work, "Fifth of July," off-Broadway . The show made a spectacular transition to Broadway in 1980. In 1983 she shared the Drama Desk Award for her ensemble contribution in the comedy farce "Noises Off."


Amy's debut film

Martha Coolidge's quirky
Not a Pretty Picture (1976),
which led to minor roles in

The Deer Hunter (1978)
and
Breaking Away (1979)
...

Bed-hopping groupie Stardust Memories; opposite
John Savage, Inside Moves (1980); William Hurt's spinster sis, The Accidental Tourist (1988); Southern-baked beauty contest spoof, Miss Firecracker (1989); Jeff Daniels'
soon-to-be-married sister, Love Hurts...


Ignored by Hollywood and film awards, Wright continued as character actor, also making strong stage showings opposite the late Uta Hagen, in the Off-Broadway winner "Mrs. Klein" 1995...
Other stage appearances include:

"Breakfast with Les and Bes"

"Hamlet"

"A Village Wooing"

"The Little Foxes"

"Prin"


Onscreen:

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

Tom and Huck Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control (2002)

Messengers (2004)

The Namesake (2006)


AND EVEN Rare TV APPEARANCES

"Law and Order"

  1. Scratch... Play for Keeps (2009) .... Ma
  2. Synecdoche, New York (2008) .... Burning House Realtor
  3. The Good Shepherd (2006) .... Safe House Operations Officer
  4. The Namesake (2006) .... Pam
  5. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" .... Sister Dorothy (1 episode, 2005)
    ... aka Law & Order: CI (USA: promotional abbreviation)
    - Acts of Contrition (2005) TV episode .... Sister Dorothy
  6. Messengers (2004) .... Nan Parrish
  7. Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control (2002) .... Psychiatrist
  8. "Undeclared" .... Debra Karp (1 episode, 2002)
    - Parents' Weekend (2002) TV episode .... Debra Karp
  9. Besotted (2001) .... Mona
  10. Amy & Isabelle (2001) (TV) .... Rosie
    ... aka Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle (USA: complete title)

  11. Joe the King (1999) .... Mary
    ... aka Joe Henry (USA)
  12. Day and an Arabian Knight (1999) .... Day
  13. Tom and Huck (1995) .... Aunt Polly
    ... aka The Adventures of Tom and Huck
    ... aka Tom Sawyer
  14. The Scarlet Letter (1995) .... Goody Gotwick
  15. Robot in the Family (1994)
  16. To Dance with the White Dog (1993) (TV) .... Carrie
  17. Josh and S.A.M. (1993) .... Waitress
  18. Where the Rivers Flow North (1993) .... Loose Woman
  19. Lethal Innocence (1991) (TV) .... Margaret Stokely
  20. Deceived (1991) .... Evelyn
  21. Hard Promises (1991) .... Shelley
  22. Final Verdict (1991) (TV) .... Queenie
  23. In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991) (TV) .... Karen
    ... aka In the Line of Duty: The Twilight Murders
    ... aka Midnight Murders
  24. Love Hurts (1990) .... Karen Weaver
  25. Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990) .... Lurlene
  26. Largo Desolato (1990) (TV)
    ... aka Vaclav Havel's 'Largo Desolato' (USA)

  27. Settle the Score (1989) (TV) .... Becky
  28. Miss Firecracker (1989) .... Missy Mahoney
  29. The Accidental Tourist (1988) .... Rose Leary
  30. Crossing Delancey (1988) .... Ricki
  31. The Telephone (1988) .... Honey Boxe/Irate Neighbor/Jennifer on Answering Machine
  32. Trapped in Silence (1986) (TV) .... Dana Wendolowski
  33. Off Beat (1986) .... Mary Ellen Gruenwald
  34. Beer (1985) .... Stacy
    ... aka The Selling of America
  35. A Fine Romance (1983) (TV) .... Jean
  36. Inside Moves (1980) .... Anne
  37. "NBC Special Treat" .... Bobba June (1 episode, 1980)
    - Sunshine's on the Way (1980) TV episode .... Bobba June
  38. Stardust Memories (1980) .... Shelley, Sandy's Bed Hopper

  39. Wise Blood
  40. (1979)
  41. Sabbath Lily
    ... aka
  42. Der Ketzer (West Germany)
    ... aka
  43. Die Weisheit des Blutes (West Germany)
    ... aka
  44. John Huston's
  45. Wise Blood
  46. Heartland (1979) .... Clara Jane
  47. The Amityville Horror (1979) .... Jackie
  48. Breaking Away (1979) .... Nancy
  49. The Deer Hunter (1978) .... Bridesmaid
  50. Girlfriends (1978) .... Ceil
  51. Not a Pretty Picture (1976) .... Cindy
  • It's Like Life (2004) (V) .... Rose Leary


  • No man with a good car needs to be justified!-
    Hazel Motes


    Hazel: ...the Church of Christ Without Christ. Where the blind can't see, the lame don't walk, and the dead stay that way.- Hazel Motes



    'Twas like where you're from weren't never there. Where you're going doesn't matter. And where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it!- Hazel Motes

    sexual desires

    Shot almost entirely in Macon, Georgia, director
    John Huston's
    1979 adaptation of
    Flannery
    O'Connor's
    novel,
    as pitch-black
    satire
    on
    religion...




    Brad Dourif in Wise Blood (1979)




    Brad Dourif
    Wise Blood
    (1979)
    John Huston

    United States

    1979

    105 minutes

    Color

    1.78:1

    English



    In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O’Connor’s pages, Huston’s Wise Blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer’s vision.

    Cast

    Hazel Motes
    Brad Dourif

    Hoover Shoates
    Ned Beatty

    Asa Hawks
    Harry Dean Stanton

    Enoch Emory
    Dan Shor

    Sabbath Lily
    Amy Wright

    Landlady Mary
    Nell Santacroce

    Preacher
    William Hickey

    Grandfather
    John Huston


    Credits

    Director
    John Huston


    From the novel by
    Flannery O’Connor

    Producer Michael Fitzgerald and Kathy Fitzgerald


    Music
    Alex Nort
    h
    Editing Roberto Silvi
    Screenplay Benedict Fitzgerald and Michael Fitzgerald
    Cinematography Gerry Fisher and B.S.C.

    Disc Features

    *
    New, restored high-definition digital transfer

    * New interviews with actor Brad Dourif, writer Benedict Fitzgerald, and writer-producer Michael Fitzgerald

    * Rare archival audio recording of author Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

    * A 28-minute episode of the television program Creativity with Bill Moyers from 1982, featuring John Huston discussing his life and work
    * Theatrical trailer

    * PLUS:
    A booklet featuring an essay by author Francine Prose