Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treating his eleven-year-old son like a grownup. Faced with eviction, Frankie calls on his apoplectic brother (Edward G. Robinson), a rich New York merchant ("I haven't had a vacation in 24 years and I'm proud of it!"). Brother and his wife (Thelma Ritter) try to fix him up with a nice widow (Eleanor Parker). The rest of the script is farced and furious until, at picture's end, Brother stops pinching pennies, Frankie stops pinching the girl upstairs, and the whole family, including the widow, fade out, frolicking in the sand...
...three newspapers said that a Louis Ritter had died in Scarsdale, N.Y., reported that he had been a successful furrier and hotelman. Then the phones began to ring. Next day both the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram shamefacedly admitted that the Louis Ritter who had died in Scarsdale was really a real estate operator and philanthropist, confessed confusing him with a Louis R. Ritter traveling in Europe who dealt in furs and hotels. Still gloriously muddled, the News ran a followup story about Ritter's funeral services, jumbled together the biographies of the Ritters, living and dead...
...next day the papers discovered they had not been so wrong after all. The A.P. ticker brought the news that Furrier-Hotelman Ritter had just died in Nice, France. Back on the beam again, the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram printed new versions of their earlier prescient obits and brought their necrology up to date...
...command performance, and Broadway responded with its best. While no fewer than nine understudies carried on in Manhattan, stars from five smash musicals, including Sally Ann Howes (My Fair Lady), Thelma Ritter (New Girl in Town) and ten-year-old Eddie Hodges (The Music Man), entertained White House guests last week in a special musicale at a dinner for the Supreme Court...
...sequences, Suchmann is looking for photogenic material. "We want a film of good quality," he explains. Both his cameramen are eminently suited to give him just this. They are Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48, who photographed the Oscar-winnings Secrets of the Reef. They have also made a number of movies for television...