Highest rated movie: Rear Window (1954)
Lowest rated movie: Perfect Strangers (1950)
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Looking for reviews of Thelma Ritter movies? Cinafilm has a total of 3,873 reviews across 25 movies.
Movies starring Thelma Ritter have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
Rear Window - released in 1954 - is Thelma Ritter's highest rated movie, with a score of 90% based on 881 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Thelma Ritter is Perfect Strangers - released in 1950 - with a score of 46% based on 1 reviews.
Thelma Ritter appeared in high school plays and was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the 1940s she worked in radio. Her movie career was started with a bit part in the 1946 Miracle on 34th Street (1947). In the movie she played a weary Xmas shopper. Her performance in the short scene was noticed by Darryl F. Zanuck who insisted her role be expanded. During the period 1951 to 1963 Ms. Ritter was nominated for 6 Academy Awards. She is one of the most nominated actors who never won the statue. Shortly after a 1968 performance on The Jerry Lewis Show (1967), Ms. Ritter suffered a heart attack which proved fatal.
Thelma Ritter has acted in films with Marilyn Monroe, Cosmo Sardo, James Stewart and Mae Marsh.
Thelma Ritter has worked with these film directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Michael Gordon, Henry Hathaway and George Seaton.
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