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- Biography: Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American supporting and character actress from the 1940s until her death in 1969.
Filmography
- American Masters Marilyn Monroe: Still Life (2006)
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
- The Incident (1968)
- Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965)
- Move Over, Darling (1963)
- A New Kind of Love (1963)
- For Love or Money (1963)
- How the West Was Won (1963)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- The Second Time Around (1961)
- The Misfits (1961)
- Pillow Talk (1959)
News
"The B List" is just what you'd expect, a collection of "B" movies.While they aren't generally Oscar winners, they are cult favorites. The National Society of Film Critics describes these films as "the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the... ... Full Article
Thelma Ritter
mtv.com –
2005-02-14
At the tender age of eight, Thelma Ritter was regaling the students and faculty of Brooklyn's Public School 77 with her recitals of such monologues as "Mr. ... Full Article
Pickup on South Street
culturecartel.com –
2003-01-19
Extravagant claims are made for this noirish spy film and for its director, Sam Fuller. It has its moments of technical brilliance in lighting and camera placement and two superb performances (by Richard Widmark as Skip, a professional pickpocket just... ... Full Article
Rear Window Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr (USA Films/Universal Pictures, 1954) Rated: PG US DVD release date: 6 March 2001 (Universal Studios)
popmatters.com –
2001-03-06
This new Collectors Edition release by Universal brings us one of the finest late-period Hitchcock movies, on a par with North by North-West, Vertigo and my personal favourite (and the only one so far not to be given release on... ... Full Article
Tense Alfred Hitchcock thriller (remade in 1998 with Christopher Reeve) about a press photographer who, housebound with his leg in plaster, becomes obsessed with the notion that his neighbour across the way (a white-haired Raymond Burr in pre-Perry Mason and... ... Full Article


I Wouldn't Mind Being Thelma Ritter
Rock Hudson & Thelma Ritter - drinking scene in Pillow Talk (1959), very funny
Thelma Ritter - Best Supporting Actress Nominee 1953 (1/2)
Thelma Ritter - Best Supporting Actress Nominee 1953 (2/2)