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Thelma Ritter
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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 Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Moe (Thelma Ritter) is the character that has seen it all, knows it all, and understands it all. That is, except for communism. Making her living for who knows maybe 50 years selling cheap gaudy ties on the street as a front for selling information, her job is to find it out and figure it out so she can hit paydirt. She can't observe everything, so she has to take the word of reliable sources, like the government theoretically is. It was never important for her to know about communism before - no one was paying for that kind of information - so she never took the time to find out about it. But the reasons are unimportant, the common result is.
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The always entertaining Thelma Ritter has a wonderful role as Stella, the nurse assigned to look after James Stewart's wheelchair bound character. Stella's dry sense of humour, a superb match to Jeffries' cynicism, helps provide some of the most enjoyable moments of the movie.
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Anyone who ever saw Thelma Ritter in her scene stealing bits in films such as Pillow Talk knows that she could do a lot with a little screen time. Though her film career didn?t begin until an uncredited bit as a shopper in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, Brooklyn born Ritter had been acting since she was a child. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she followed a stage career until taking a hiatus to raise a family. She resumed her career on radio in the early 1940s and after appearing in Miracle on 34th Street she worked steadily until the late 1960s--earning five Academy award nominations over the course of her career. She died of a heart attack on February 4, 1969.
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Als Filmschauspielerin trat Thelma Ritter erstmals in Das Wunder von Manhattan (1947) in Erscheinung. Sie wurde mehrfach für die begehrtesten Film- und Schauspielpreise nominiert, wie z.B. für den Oscar, den Golden Globe und den Emmy, aber nur einmal gelang es ihr, diese Auszeichnung tatsächlich zu erringen (Tony Award). Daher wird sie oft in einem Atemzug mit Deborah Kerr genannt (Deborah Kerr gilt als die Schauspielerin, die am häufigsten für einen Preis vorgeschlagen wurde, den sie dann nicht bekam).
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Talk story about an interview at Sardi's with Thelma Ritter who is playing Marthy in "New Girl in Town" & her husband, Joseph Moran, a vice-president of Young & Rubicam. Miss Ritter was late & Mr. Moran entertained with limericks since he is the uncrowned world champ at filling…
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