Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...most movie preachments on juvenile delinquency. Most of the backgrounds, shot in Brooklyn's swarming slums, give the doings of the tinhorn hoodlums a convincing look of reality. Best atmospheric touches: Peter's grubby home; the grey, frayed hopelessness of his hard-working parents (admirably played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally...
...that their clients would not get a fair trial because New York's system of selecting juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor, and women. The jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells, and got $125,000 from Hollywood...
...sequence with Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas--she as a girl with a price tag and he as a man with the price--is next best. This is partially because Thelma Ritter, as a sharp-tongued servant, is seen more in this episode than in the others. Miss Ritter, with the two Mr. Douglases, are most cordially welcomed to the cinema. And Mr. Mankiewicz deserves considerable congratulations...
Baker was found dying of a pistol bullet wound through the head early yesterday shortly after his jeep wrecked. He had been riding in the moonlight along a lonely dirt road, with pretty Thelma Griffin, a young divorced tavern car hop who had met him only a few hours before at a night club...