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