Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps through the premises changing linens, juggling menus, and scornfully polishing off a collection of stale sex jokes...
...ENTERTAINERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Thelma Ritter joins Regulars Bob Newhart, Caterina Valente and Don DeLuise...
...five years earlier, so he marries Polly Bergen. The newlyweds have no sooner departed for a honeymoon in Monterey than out of a Navy sub hops this cute freckled blonde wearing blue denims and a sailor hat. "You're not too late!" screeches Doris' mother-in-law, Thelma Ritter. Then begins an unmercifully tedious rescue operation to keep Bergen and Garner from consummating their marriage...
When the two meet, crrraaaaazy things happen: Dior, Lanvin-Castillo and Cardin trot out their hautest couture; Maurice Chevalier sings a medley of old favorites; Thelma Ritter spouts excerpts from her treatise on contemporary mating habits. Soon all the 25-year-old virgins of Paris, apparently some 50 or 60 strong, go parading in homage to Catherine, patron saint of maidenhood. Woodward tags along, and St. Catherine tells her she'd better stop in at Elizabeth Arden's on the way home. Off go the glasses. On come the yawns...
...Prescott family West. They set out as sodbusters in 1839, marry, multiply, get killed off along the way in drownings, fights, and wars, until at the end the only Prescott left is an octogenarian Debbie Reynolds. Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey...