Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors- each of whom has three meaty roles- show an amazing amount of varsatility and are usually every bit as brilliant as the plays they are working with. Their names are Marty Ritter. Eric Davin, Sharon Klaif, Tim Carden and John Archibald. In a cast of this quality, it is hard to single any one actor out as being above the rest- but I must say that Carden has the kind of stage presence that makes you want to stand up and salute every time he makes an entrance...
...that extends through most of the evening. John Archibald as Tillich, a well-meaning white liberal who some how can't accent the fact that his 14-year old daughter has been raped by a black school chum on the first day of a new bussing program, and Marty Ritter as Gertrude. a black Mama with pretensions to middle-class suburbia, are particularly well-cast...
Monday, Aug. 25 (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.): A HOLE IN THE HEAD, with Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Eddie Hodges and Thelma Ritter...
...HEREDERA ran last quarter in sharp 24 and 2/5's, RITTER looked powerful in maiden win, TWICE ROMAN shows good form...
Died. Thelma Ritter, 63, Brooklyn-born character actress; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. Her voice was purest Greenpoint gravel and her visage was forever screwed into the city dweller's skeptical query: "Who ya' tryin' to kid, buster?" She began her career, as she once put it, on the road as "an obnoxious child actress-the poor man's Cornelia. Otis Skinner." She married in 1927 and settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus...