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VIDEO: Trailer

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Length: 02:54
Posted: 1/21/2010

Trailer for the 1962 film Birdman of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster reteams with John Frankenheimer, starring as the title character, Robert E. Stroud. Sentenced to a dozen years in prison for killing a man in 1909, he loses any chance for parole by stabbing another prisoner. Incarcerated in Leavenworth, he adds to his problems by killing a prison guard for refusing to let his mother (Thelma Ritter) visit him and is sentenced to death. His mother begs Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to intercede, and the president commutes Stroud's sentence to life in isolation, under the gaze of the harsh warden Harvey Shoemaker (Karl Malden). One day in the isolation yard he comes across a wounded sparrow, nurses it back to health, and eventually teaches it to perform tricks. With the departure of Shoemaker, Stroud is allowed to have more birds in his cell and begins a study of them. As the years pass, he becomes an expert on caged birds, finally writing a book on the diseases to which they are susceptible. After he w watch

VIDEO: Perfect Strangers (1950)

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Perfect Strangers (1950)
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Posted: 1/19/2010

Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan show they still have plenty of screen chemistry in this engaging blend of romance, comedy and courtroom thriller. Leading the fine supporting cast is Thelma Ritter, who shines as a dumb-bunny juror. watch

VIDEO: The Second Time Around

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The Second Time Around
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Length: 01:38:40
Posted: 6/10/2009

Debbie Reynolds stars as Lucretia Rogers, a young widow who moves with her children to a raucous Arizona town on the frontier. At first having trouble coming to grips with frontier life, she adjusts well enough to get herself appointed sheriff. She is courted by a couple of cowpokes, both of whom ride to the rescue when the young widow bites off more than she can chew and she is captured by outlaws. But which one will she choose to be her new man? This musical romance also stars Andy Griffith, Steve Forrest, Juliet Prowse and Thelma Ritter. watch

Thelma Ritter pretends to be a cleaning lady to get to know her son's high-society in-laws in The Mating Season (1951).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Karen (Celeste Holm) introudces Margo (Bette Davis), Lloyd (Hugh Marlowe) and Birdie (Thelma Ritter) to Eve (Anne Baxter), who then enthralls most of them with her story in All About Eve, 1950.
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Posted: 2/25/2009
Margo (Bette Davis) forgets professional etiquette in accommodating starstruck Eve (Anne Baxter), alarming aide Birdie (Thelma Ritter) and leading to a revealing moment in All About Eve, 1950.
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Posted: 2/25/2009
Season 1, Episode 32
Academy Award nominee Thelma Ritter is Lottie, a talkative babysitter who becomes a local gossip superstar when she baby-sits for a woman the night she is murdered. The victim is Mrs. Nash, a recently separated mother who has started dating a man with a prison record. Lottie is all set to testify about how unsavory Mrs. Nash's boyfriend was and how wonderful and charming the poor Mr. Nash is when Lottie is suddenly surprised by a strange twist of events.
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Length: 24:42
Aired: 5/6/1956
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Year Title Description
1968 What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Movie, Actor - Mrs. Schwartz
1967 The Incident Movie, Actor - Bertha Beckerman
1965 Boeing Boeing Movie, Actor - Bertha
1963 A New Kind Of Love Movie, Actor - Lena O'Connor
1963 How The West Was Won Movie, Actor - Agatha Clegg

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I'm just curious which actors ...

Question: I'm just curious which actors have been nominated the most times for Oscars without winning.Answer: Peter O'Toole has been nominated for a total of seven best-actor Oscars — starting with Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 and most recently for My Favorite Year (1982) — and never won once. Among the ladies, Deborah Kerr received six best-actress nominations throughout her long and distinguished career, including nods for The King and I (1956) and From Here to Eternity (1953), but never went home with an Oscar. In the supporting categories, legendary character actress read more

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