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  • Rear Window
  • Rear Window review by from Leicester
    Rated - 3.0 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 ...   Read customer review
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Pickup on South Street review by from Kent
    Rated - 3.0 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...   Read customer review
  • For Love Or Money
  • For Love Or Money review by johnk from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Love, money, Thelma 4 March 2010
    ...s when it first came out and loved it but time has not ben terribly kind to it. Thelma Ritter, all glammed up for once ,gets most of the good lines as usual. Mitzi wears a s...   Read customer review

Thelma Ritter - filmography


  • Boeing Boeing (1965)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Tony Curtis,  Jerry Lewis
    Director: John Rich
    Certificate: 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 14 members
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  • For Love Or Money on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Dick Sargent,  Mitzi Gaynor,  Kirk Douglas
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Romantic comedy starring Kirk Douglas. Attorney Deke Gentry (Douglas) is given an unusual assignment by a regular client, wealthy widow Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter). She requests that he pick out suitable husbands for her three daughters, Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), Bonnie (Julie Newmar) and Jan (Leslie ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 31 members
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  • A New Kind Of Love (1963)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Maurice Chevalier,  Paul Newman
    Director: Melville Shavelson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A man falls for an exotic bad girl, unaware he's already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic comedy. Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) works for a large department store in New York City as a sort of industrial spy; while ostensively a buyer, Blake's greatest ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 42% from 8 members
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  • Move Over Darling on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Doris Day,  James Garner,  Polly Bergen
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 323 members
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  • Birdman of Alcatraz on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Hugh Marlowe,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life sentence. An overbearing warden (Karl Malden) eventually transfers ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,323 member
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  • The Misfits on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Kevin McCarthy,  Estelle Winwood,  Thelma Ritter
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,639 member
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  • A Hole In The Head on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Eddie Hodges,  Carolyn Jones,  Eleanor Parker
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Feel-good slice of 50s entertainment directed by Frank Capra. Widower Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) leads a glamorous lifestyle that he can't afford. His love of women and the high life is tempered by only one thing: his 12-year-old son Ally (Eddie Hodges). When he approaches his wealthy, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 153 members
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  • Pillow Talk (1959)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Rock Hudson,  Tony Randall
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,029 members
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  • Pillow Talk - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Nick Adams,  Rock Hudson
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is a level-headed interior designer who shares a phone line with resident swinging bachelor Brad Allen (Rock Hudson). He annoys her by hogging the line with calls to his numerous girlfriends, whilst she irritates him by her refusal to accept his sweet-talking charms. Brad ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 18 members
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  • Daddy Longlegs (1955)
    Starring: Terry Moore,  Thelma Ritter,  Fred Clark
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A young orphaned French girl is brought to America to go to a finishing school. She falls in love with her mysterious benefactor, who only identifies himself at her school summer ball. Musical remake of a 1931 film.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 267 members
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  • Rear Window on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  James Stewart,  Georgine Darcy
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alfred Hitchcock playfully explores the role of the voyeur in one of his best-loved suspense thrillers. After breaking his leg during a shoot, photo-journalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (James Stewart) is forced to spend a humid summer recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment. The wheelchair-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 27,677 members
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  • Rear Window - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Grace Kelly,  Wendell Corey
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James Stewart and Grace Kelly star in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller which explores the role of the voyeur. After breaking his leg during a shoot, photo-journalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (Stewart) is forced to spend a humid summer recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment. The wheelchair-..read more »
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  • Pickup on South Street on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Murvyn Vye,  Jean Peters
    Director: Samuel Fuller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Samuel Fuller directs this classic film noir thriller starring Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy, a solitary pickpocket who has just been released from prison. On the subway he steals a handbag belonging to Candy (Jean Peters), a beautiful young woman who is unwittingly carrying US government secrets ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 872 members
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  • Titanic on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Robert Wagner,  Barbara Stanwyck
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The telling of the fateful maiden voyage of the 'unsinkable' liner, the Titanic. Based on the actual events but using fictional characters to create high drama, excitement and pathos.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 192 members
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  • All About Eve - Blu-ray (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long,..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 17 members
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  • All About Eve on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long,..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 10,530 members
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Thelma Ritter facts

5 most recent films

Boeing Boeing - 3.0 stars
For Love Or Money - 2.5 stars
A New Kind Of Love - 2.5 stars
Move Over Darling - 3.5 stars
Birdman of Alcatraz - 3.5 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
Move Over Darling - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rear Window - Blu-ray - 3 stars
A New Kind Of Love - 2.5 stars
For Love Or Money - 2.5 stars
Boeing Boeing - 3.0 stars
Titanic - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Marilyn Monroe - 4 times - show films
Hugh Marlowe - 4 times - show films
Doris Day - 3 times - show films
James Stewart - 2 times - show films
Fred Clark - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Gordon - 4 times - show films
Jean Negulesco - 3 times - show films
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 2 times - show films
John Frankenheimer - 2 times - show films
Samuel Fuller - 2 times - show films