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Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Catered Affair by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Thelma Ritter...
...family daffy, Gleason was playing a role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter had a fine, acerb time of it sticking pins in the balloons of his pretensions. Unfortunately, Director Sidney Lumet and Adaptor Ronald Alexander chose to dwell on the resemblances between The Show-Off and The Honeymooners instead of the differences...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Show-Off, with Jackie Gleason, Thelma Ritter...
...incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse, she is probably the only actress alive who can stick a thermometer in a man's mouth and say, without a hint of affectation: "See if you can break a hundred...
...Wilbur Chapman, 32, gave birth in Chelsea Naval Hospital to a boy, 4 lb. 6½ oz., only three weeks after she had borne a girl, 3 lb. 14 oz. It was one of the rare cases (TIME, March 16, 1953) of concurrent pregnancies from almost simultaneous conceptions: Thelma Chapman has two wombs...