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Thelma Ritter
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Thelma Ritter - what members say
review by from Leicester
This is great.... 18 April 2005
review by from Kent
Pick Up on South Street 15 October 2004
Thelma Ritter - filmography
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Boeing Boeing
(1965)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval
Director: John Rich
Certificate: 
Handsome bachelor Bernard Lawrence is juggling three sexy stewardesses. He accomplishes this by wining and dining them according to their airline schedules, which also keeps them from finding out about one another. But unfortunately, two things are threatening to end Bernard's merry-go-round of ..read more »
 
57%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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A New Kind Of Love
(1963)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Melville Shavelson
Certificate:
A fashion designer and a newspaperman meet on their way to Paris and fall under the fabled city's spell. Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming "opposites attract" comedy romp. Especially when the attracting opposites are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Oscar-winning stars (..read more »
41%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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For Love Or Money
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young
Director: Michael Gordon
Certificate: 
In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie ..read more »
47%
from 26 members
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Move Over Darling
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
Director: Michael Gordon
Certificate: 
Five years to the day after his wife Ellen disappeared in the sea after a plane crash, lawyer husband Nicholas has her declared legally dead, remarries and sets off to Monterey with new wife Bianca. The same morning, Ellen arrives home after being rescued by the Navy from a desert island and, upon ..read more »
71%
from 279 members
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Birdman of Alcatraz
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Hugh Marlowe, James Westerfield, Karl Malden
Director: John Frankenheimer
Certificate:
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Burt Lancaster reteams with John Frankenheimer, starring as the title character, Robert E. Stroud. Sentenced to a dozen years in prison for killing a man in 1909, he loses any chance for parole by stabbing another prisoner. Incarcerated in Leavenworth, he adds to his problems by killing a prison ..read more »
72%
from 1,254 member
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The Misfits
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce ..read more »
66%
from 1,471 member
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Pillow Talk
(1959)
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
Director: Michael Gordon
Certificate:
The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a "pert" interior decorator. Together they share a party line over which they develop ..read more »
70%
from 1,968 member
Not currently released
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A Hole In The Head
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
In this Frank Capra comedy-drama, widower Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) is a small-time hotel owner with delusions of grandeur. He seeks help from his wealthy brother (Edward G Robinson) and his wife, who regard him as a worthless dreamer, who's too irresponsible to look after his young son. Instead ..read more »
53%
from 136 members
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Pillow Talk - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
Director: Michael Gordon
Certificate:
The first Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie tells the story of an odd couple who share a party line, eventually falling in love in spite of themselves. He's a womanizing cad, and she's a perky career gal with uncompromising moral standards and fine home furnishings.
20%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
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Daddy Longlegs
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Fred Astaire, Terry Moore
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate:
On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him letters, which he doesn't read. After 3 years, he goes to visit her at a dance, not ..read more »
64%
from 253 members
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Rear Window
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
78%
from 26,564 members
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Pickup on South Street
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
Director: Samuel Fuller
Certificate:
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This film noir classic plays on America's paranoia about a Communist takeover in the 1950s. Dwelling in a neon-lit nightscape are: a pickpocket, Skip McCoy; an abused dame, Candy; a seen-it-all stoolie, Moe; Joey, Candy's violent boyfriend and Communist plotter; shifty G-Men; cynical cops; and a ..read more »
71%
from 800 members
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All About Eve - Blu-ray
(1950)
Starring: Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Certificate:
Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
83%
from 13 members
Not available for rental
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All About Eve
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Certificate:
Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
76%
from 10,069 members
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...is wonderful as the breathless darling of the New York fashion world. However, Thelma Ritter truly steals the show aided by some fantastic lines. I really enjoyed this as ...
