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  • Rear Window
  • Rear Window review by Thomas Barberton from Leicester
    Rated - 3 stars This is great.... 18 April 2005
    ...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 ...  
  • Pickup On South Street
  • Pickup On South Street review by Craig Methven from Kent
    Rated - 3 stars Pick Up on South Street 15 October 2004
    ...yers of, at turns, aggression, passion and menace in this tale of stolen film. Thelma Ritter almost steals the show in a supporting role, but the plot sometimes stutters an...  

Thelma Ritter - filmography


  • Boeing Boeing (1965)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Jerry Lewis,  Dany Saval
    Director: John Rich
    Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 3 members
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  • Move Over, Darling (1963)
    Starring: Doris Day,  James Garner,  Polly Bergen
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 30 members
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  • A New Kind Of Love (1963)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Joanne Woodward,  Maurice Chevalier
    Director: Melville Shavelson
    Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 8 members
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  • The Misfits on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Clark Gable,  Montgomery Clift,  Marilyn Monroe
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: PG
    In John Huston's drama, sophisticated but emotionally crippled Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe, giving what many believe to be her strongest performance) has come to Nevada to gain a quick and easy divorce. When her landlady introduces her to aging, broken cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Gable), she finally ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 285 members
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  • Daddy Longlegs on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Leslie Caron,  Fred Astaire,  Terry Moore
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: U
    A globe-trotting playboy played by Fred Astaire spies a young woman living in an orphanage, and on impulse decides to anonymously sponsor her college education. The mystery of her benefactor's identity fuels romantic speculation in the girl, and her letters fuel romantic speculation in Astaire. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 63% from 137 members
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  • Rear Window on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Grace Kelly,  Wendell Corey,  Thelma Ritter
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 6,146 members
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  • All About Eve on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Anne Baxter,  George Sanders
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 2,298 members
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Thelma Ritter facts

5 most recent films


Boeing Boeing - 3.5 stars
Move Over, Darling - 3.5 stars
A New Kind Of Love - 3.0 stars
Birdman Of Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
The Misfits - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Rear Window - 4.0 stars
All About Eve - 4.0 stars
Birdman Of Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
Pickup On South Street - 3.5 stars
Daddy Longlegs - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


A New Kind Of Love - 3.0 stars
Boeing Boeing - 3.5 stars
Move Over, Darling - 3.5 stars
A Hole In The Head - 2.5 stars
As Young as You Feel - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Marilyn Monroe - 3 times - show films
Fred Clark - 2 times - show films
Hugh Marlowe - 2 times - show films
Robert Wagner - 1 times - show films
Murvyn Vye - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Jean Negulesco - 2 times - show films
John Rich - 1 times - show films
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1 times - show films
Melville Shavelson - 1 times - show films
John Huston - 1 times - show films