The Search for Bridey Murphy is a 1956 American drama film written and directed by Noel Langley and starring Teresa Wright, Louis Hayward, and Nancy Gates, based on the best-selling book by Morey Bernstein. It is inspired by the story of American woman Virginia Tighe, who believed herself to formerly have been Bridey Murphy, a nineteenth-century Irishwoman, in what was believed to be a case of cryptomnesia. It was the only Hollywood film to be directed by Langley, who was best known as a screenwriter.