Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...THELMA A. JONES Norfolk...
...cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure of urban life itself as the probable villain. And Director Larry Peerce moves far beyond his 1964 One Potato, Two Potato in welding his cast of adept Hollywood second-string players (among them, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Jan Sterling and Ruby Dee) into a concerted exposition of this plausibility...
...show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...