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Thelma Ritter

Highest Rated:
100% How the West Was Won (1962)
Lowest Rated:
0% A New Kind of Love (1963)
Birthday:
Feb 14, 1905
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
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. Brown Gets His Haircut" and "The Story of Cremona". After appearing in high school plays and stock companies, Ritter was trained at the American…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 26
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1999 50 Years: The Best of Hollywood
  • Actor
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1968 What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
  • Mrs. Schwartz
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1967 83% The Incident
  • Actor
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1965 Boeing (707) Boeing (707)
  • Bertha
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1963 Move Over Darling
  • Grace Arden
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1963 0% A New Kind of Love
  • Lena O'Connor
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1962 100% How the West Was Won
  • Agathe Clegg
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1962 82% Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Elizabeth Stroud
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1961 100% The Misfits
  • Isabelle Steers
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1961 The Second Time Around
  • Aggie
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1959 67% A Hole in the Head
  • Sophie Manetta
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1959 92% Pillow Talk
  • Alma
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1955 Daddy Long Legs
  • Miss Pritchard
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1954 100% Rear Window
  • Stella the nurse
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1953 Farmer Takes a Wife
  • Lucy Cashdollar
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1953 88% Titanic
  • Mrs. Maude Young
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1953 88% Pickup on South Street
  • Moe
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1952 With a Song in My Heart
  • Clancy
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1951 As Young as You Feel
  • Della Hodges
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1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker
  • Mae Swazey
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1950 Perfect Strangers
  • Actor
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1950 100% All About Eve
  • Birdie Coonan
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1949 Father Was a Fullback
  • Geraldine
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1949 City Across the River
  • Mrs. Cusack
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1949 100% A Letter to Three Wives
  • Sadie
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1947 94% Miracle on 34th Street
  • Peter's Mother
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Quotes from Thelma Ritter's Characters

    1. Margo Channing: You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it.
    2. Birdie Coonan: Something maybe grew a size larger.
    3. Margo Channing: When we get home you're going to get into one of these girdles and *act* for two and a half hours.
    4. Birdie Coonan: I couldn't get into *the girdle* in two and a half hours.
    From All About Eve. Submitted by Letitia L (2 months ago)
    1. Stella the nurse: I can hear you now, 'Get out of my life, you wonderful woman. You're too good for me.'
    From Rear Window. Submitted by Lucas M (5 months ago)
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