Thelma Ritter

How the West Was Won -- Academy Award-winning epic follows the trials and tribulations of three generations of a frontier family as they embark to tame the wild American West.

Birdman of Alcatraz -- Burt Lancaster stars as a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, who becomes a world renowned authority on birds. The excellent supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Karl Malden.

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.

When a marriage broker successfully fixes a model up with a lonely X-ray technician, the model is so happy she decides to help the broker find a love of her own. While the meddling, cynical broker resists at first, she ultimately realizes that she is driven in her occupation to make up for the emptiness in her own lovelorn life.