Thelma Ritter
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Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902-February 5, 1969), an American actress best known for her comedic roles as working-class characters and her strong New York accent.
She received six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, more than any other actress in that category, and she received one Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.
Early and family life
Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 14, 1902, the first child of Charles and Lucy Ritter, both natives of the United States. Her father, who at the time was a bookkeeper, was ashore company's office manager, and he became a shore company's treasurer.
Ritter played Puck in a semi-professional dramatic society's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 11. As an adolescent, she worked in high-school dramas and stock companies. She completed formal study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (ADA). The academy was refused to enroll her in the first attempt. She achieved her goal of studying at ADA after graduating from Manual Training High School.
Ritter decided not to pursue her two children (Monica and Joe), who were married in 1927. Moran, aspired to be an actor, but branched out in the mid-1930s, moving to become an agent and then an advertising executive.
Career
Ritter's first professional work with stock theater companies in New York and New England began in 1978. UTBU (1965), New Girl in Town (1956), In Times Square (1931), and The Shelf (1926) are among her Broadway credits.
Ritter's first film appearance was in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a struggling mother unable to find the toy that Kris Kringle has promised her son, she made a memorable appearance in a brief uncredited role. Ritter was uncredited in her third role in writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's A Letter to Three Wives (1949), leaving a lasting impression, although she was not the first to be recognized. In All About Eve (1950), Mankiewicz kept Ritter in mind and cast her as Birdie Coonan, earning her an Oscar nomination. Gene Tierney and John Lund appear in Mitchell Leisen's ensemble screwball comedy The Mating Season (1951) featured Gene Tierney and John Lund, earning her a second nomination. For the next two years, she loved steady film work.
She appeared in many of the episodic drama television series of the 1950s and 1960s, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, and The United States Steel Hour's "Wagon Train." In Pillow Talk (1959), James Stewart's nurse in Rear Window (1954) and Doris Day's maid. Although best known for comedies, she had a few comedies, most notably in With a Song in My Heart (1953), Titanic (1953), The Misfits (1961), and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), for which she received her final Oscar nomination. On January 23, 1968, she made her last appearance on The Jerry Lewis Exhibition.