Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1951 — Page 21

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9 Hellywood—

Thelma Ritter Real Trouper

Hailed as Hollywoo New Marie Dressler

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By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 15—They're bellowing it from

the

ound stage roofs that Thelma Ritter slides to home

plate’as Hollywood's new Marie Dressler in Paramount's “The Mating Season,” but I bludgeoned her into admitting

ghe never knew Abe Lincoln. she's just a

Thelma couldn't haveBy Hollywood movie queen standards, that is,

She's under 50. \

If this kind of thing keeps up, Margaret O'Brien will be the new May Robson, and Roddy MecDowall will step inte C, Aubrey Smith's shoes any day now, Thelma, though, how Tar under 50, “Ugh, ugh,” she winked, “I'm | in no position to be younger | than springtime.” I've a hunch it's hecause Thel-| ma doesn't want to embarrass!

her mama or granny the way the! script says, There are a lot of! glamour belles whose birthday| candles would heat up a ehilly room quicker than Thelma’'s. On the movie screens, Thelma looks like the “Before” .in a makeup ad, But catch her away from the sound stages and she's a looker who's a dead ringer for the late Alice Brady, ® on » GEORGE ‘SEATON, who knew Thelma when she was eating air | between two slices of day-old bread, started the ball rolling by giving her a bit in “Miracle on 84th Street.” A Fox contract for three pictures a year followed and Thelma | bas been jabbing moviegoers in| the ribs ever since in “Letter to]

Three Wives,” “I'll Get By, “Perfect Strangers” and “All About Eve.” . nn »n »

NOW SHE'S FLYING around the wild blue yonder as a star as result of her performance in Mating Season.” And without being stuck up pn billboards with a V neckfine and a dagger In her mitt,

Thelma thought it over and

3 rot announcements, photogtaking my picture, peo-| pie interviewing me, the guy in super-market telling me I'm win an Oscar. I didn’t plan, it this «I didn't bargain for| this, I sal ‘to George Seaton the] pther day, ‘Kid, you've loused up my life’, ”

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pumpkins as a leading lady in stock companies, “Some towns liked ‘em big and blonde,” she snorted. “Me, 1 just had a good figure, I_ was a cutie, In stock, you didn't need talent. Only a wardrobe.” She ended up each wi with nightgbwns and

“But nothing you could put on she remember one ‘My Little Irish CinI wore a calico dress, denim drawers and carried a

live hen under my arms. The play{wright had obviously seen ‘Peg »' {My Heart.’ I can remember some Must give CDA a preview of the of the lines, you sick at your stomach to hear!leased them.” :

too. It would make!

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THELMA'S husband is Joe Mo-

ran, vice president of one of New released are: York's biggest advertising agen- Householders”; “What You Should cles and Thelma thinks his suecess story is wackier than lown,

ner

“Joe was a leading man in stock. Wa both quit about the same time and things were tough. Joe used to sit by the radio and win all the slogan contests. You know, those 1-like-matzoh - ball - mouthwash - because things, He'd win two watches a week and we'd sell ‘sm for groceries. The agency

decided he was a genius and |

gave him a job.” . 80 ABOUT THELMA trouping with the glitter gals and profile boys in the movies? “When I came out for ‘All About Eve’ I figured they were] going to give me the business” she winced. “I could just hear them saying that with Hollywood lousy with actors, they had to im-| {port me yet. Bette Davis was

{actually playing straight n man n for

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gers of atomie attack. Eight motion picture films, dealing with atomic and other types of warfare and related sub-| jects are being privately produced | and will soon be distributed with CDA’s blessing. The first film, {Atomic Attack,”

“Survival Under will be ready!

for distribution next month, The ?

second, “Preparing Your Home| Against Atomic Attack,” will be released in April. CDA says local civil defense] lorganizations, clubg and private parsons will be able to buy or rent | the films. The movies will parallel | the information contained in booklets now being prepared. CDA says the sound films will cost $17.60; 16mm silent pictures will cost $9.75. Must Be Approved Scripts are submitted to CDA by the movie producers and if approved, a rough film is made. f this is approved, the producer

finished product before it is re-| for distribution through film channels for home and organization usage. The titles of other films to be “Fire-Fighting for |

Know About War Gases’; “Emergency Action to SBave Lives”; and ‘The Cities Must Fight.” me. She could ‘have been casual, But she handed me the lines on a| {silver platter. { » n ” CHARLES BRACKETT, who {produced “The Mating Beason,” | recently showed the picture to a famous New York producer. | | Laughed Thelma: “That producer got all excited | and wanted to know where I'd| {been all these years. I told |Charlie next time he saw the producer to tell him that Thelma |

Ritter’s been hanging around his |

|office for 20 years without getting! a tumble, “Can you beat it?”

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