Cast: Thelma Ritter
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Thelma Ritter. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
All About Eve
1950 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm
Plot Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background...
8.5
34K votes
8.5
34K votes
Rear Window
1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Thelma Ritter · Raymond Burr
Plot A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he...
8.2
75K votes
8.2
75K votes
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Burt Lancaster · Karl Malden · Neville Brand · Thelma Ritter
Plot Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster), a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life...
7.9
6K votes
7.9
6K votes
A Letter to Three Wives
1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas
Plot Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
The Incident
1967 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Larry Peerce
Cast Martin Sheen · Tony Musante · Beau Bridges · Thelma Ritter
Plot The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together.
7.5
740 votes
7.5
740 votes
The Misfits
1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach
Plot Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three cowboys while in Reno to obtain a divorce, and is extremely upset when she realizes they plan to trap wild horses to sell them...
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley
Plot While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government secrets on their...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast Maureen O'Hara · John Payne · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart
Plot Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Mating Season
1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Gene Tierney · John Lund · Miriam Hopkins · Thelma Ritter
Plot White-collar working stiff but upwardly mobile Val McNulty meets, quickly falls in love and marries socialite Maggie Carleton, who has no money of her own. Thus, they live in a...
6.8
282 votes
6.8
282 votes
Pillow Talk
1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Thelma Ritter
Plot Brad Allen, a song writer, is being financed by Jonathan Forbes, millionaire Broadway producer who would like Jan Morrow to be his third wife. Brad doesn't know that the woman...
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
Titanic
1953 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Clifton Webb · Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Wagner · Audrey Dalton
Plot Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Daddy Long Legs
1955 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Fred Astaire · Leslie Caron · Thelma Ritter · Fred Clark
Plot 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...
6.3
639 votes
6.3
639 votes
Boeing Boeing
1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Rich
Cast Tony Curtis · Jerry Lewis · Dany Saval · Christiane Schmidtmer
Plot Living in Paris, american playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. However, his life soon...
6.2
349 votes
6.2
349 votes
The Model and the Marriage Broker
1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Jeanne Crain · Scott Brady · Thelma Ritter · Zero Mostel
Plot Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man...
6.2
39 votes
6.2
39 votes
A Hole in the Head
1959 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Frank Sinatra · Eddie Hodges · Edward G. Robinson · Thelma Ritter
Plot Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible...
6.2
734 votes
6.2
734 votes
The Proud and Profane
1956 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast William Holden · Deborah Kerr · Thelma Ritter · Dewey Martin
Plot In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel.
6.1
54 votes
6.1
54 votes
As Young as You Feel
1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Harmon Jones
Cast Monty Woolley · Thelma Ritter · David Wayne · Jean Peters
Plot Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley...
6.1
45 votes
6.1
45 votes
Lucy Gallant (Oil Town)
1955 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Robert Parrish
Cast Jane Wyman · Charlton Heston · Claire Trevor · Thelma Ritter
Plot An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the...
6.0
62 votes
6.0
62 votes
Move Over, Darling
1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter
Plot Remake of My Favorite Wife, 1940, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
5.9
405 votes
5.9
405 votes
For Love or Money
1963 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Kirk Douglas · Mitzi Gaynor · Thelma Ritter · Julie Newmar
Plot A millionairess forces her lawyer to find suitable husbands for her three daughters who stand to inherit a fortune. The lawyer ends up falling in love with one of the...
5.8
178 votes
5.8
178 votes