Movies by Thelma Ritter
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50 Years: The Best of Hollywood (1999)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis …
Join host Tab Hunter in reliving some of the best moments from the greatest films of all time. This entertaining documentary features never-before-seen footage and more than 35 rare…
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Boeing Boeing (1965)
Cast: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval …
Directed by: John Rich
American journalist Bernard Lawrence has three stewardess girlfriends, none of whom know about the others. When his rival, Robert Reed, arrives in Paris, he invades Bernard's apartment…
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: Melville Shavelson
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman star in this lighthearted romantic farce about plain Jane fashion buyer Samantha Blake, who gets a dramatic makeover and is subsequently mistaken for a…
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Move Over, Darling (1963)
Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen …
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Five years after his wife, Ellen (Doris Day), disappears at sea in a plane crash, successful lawyer Nick Arden (James Garner) decides it's time to move on: He has Ellen declared legally…
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How the West Was Won (1962)
Cast: Carroll Baker, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck …
Directed by: John Ford, George Marshall, Henry Hathaway …
A film so epic, it demanded the talents of three directors, including the master of Westerns, John Ford. You'll follow three generations of the adventurous Prescott family, who risk life…
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Convict Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster, Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of the real-life inmate) finds solace in his life sentence of solitary confinement for murder by becoming an…
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The Misfits (1961)
Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift …
Directed by: John Huston
Arthur Miller's homage to the Old West stars Clark Gable as Gay Langland, an aging cowboy who works the rodeos with cohorts Guido (Eli Wallach) and Perce (Montgomery Clift). The trio…
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Pillow Talk (1959)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall …
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Womanizing songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) spends hours on the phone wooing his many women. Problem is, he shares a party line with prim interior decorator Jan Morrow (Doris Day),…
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A Hole in the Head (1959)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker …
Directed by: Frank Capra
Tony (Frank Sinatra) is trying to keep his failing Miami hotel afloat while raising his 12-year-old son (Eddie Hodges). As a last resort, he's forced to ask his harried brother, Mario…
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The Proud and the Profane (1956)
Cast: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: George Seaton
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley (Deborah Kerr) arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the…
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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
While visiting France, an American millionaire meets a striking young woman who was orphaned during World War II. Vowing to take care of her for the rest of her life, he anonymously funds her…
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Lucy Gallant (1955)
Cast: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor …
Directed by: Robert Parrish
After cosmopolitan New Yorker Lucy Gallant (Jane Wyman) is left at the altar, she lands in a Texas boom town where she sells her trousseau to the local ladies and opens a dress shop, even…
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Rear Window (1954)
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
As his broken leg heals, wheelchair-bound L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) becomes absorbed with the parade of life outside his window and soon fixates on a mysterious man whose behavior has…
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Pickup on South Street (1953)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
A routine subway ride turns out to be anything but when Candy (Jean Peters) is mugged by a man named Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), who's in search of valuable microfilm that Candy is…
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Titanic (1953)
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
An unhappily married couple, Julia and Richard Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb), board the &NFi;Titanic&NFi_;, while one of their daughters falls in love with a boy from the…
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With a Song in My Heart (1952)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne …
Directed by: Walter Lang
Susan Hayward stars as Jane Froman, an ambitious singer whose career takes off after she makes her radio debut and marries her pianist (David Wayne), in this Oscar-winning musical biography.…
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The Mating Season (1951)
Cast: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins …
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Cash-strapped widow Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) leaves her humble New Jersey home and hitchhikes to Ohio to move in with her son, Val (John Lund). But when she arrives and Val's new…
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As Young As You Feel (1951)
Cast: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne …
Directed by: Harmon Jones
After aging John Hodges (Monty Woolley) is forced to retire from his printing company, he can't seem to find anything to do with his time. Aching to get back into the business world, he…
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All About Eve (1950)
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's sharp script anchors this story about New York City theater life, with Bette Davis playing an aging Broadway diva who employs a starstruck fan…