Christy Putnam
@christyputnam.bsky.social
Writer-Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker, @upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025…Film Festival Presenter…#TCMFF…#TCMParty…#FilmSky…Native Houstonian….Romper Room Alumni. Blue dot in a red state. 💙
Thelma Ritter appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled “The Babysitter,” but eventually declined a second film role from the director when she felt the role just wasn’t right for her…
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thelma Ritter appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled “The Babysitter,” but eventually declined a second film role from the director when she felt the role just wasn’t right for her…
The set was cold, emotionally and physically. “Birdman of Alcatraz” became a triumph, and Thelma Ritter as Mrs.Stroud would earn a well-deserved final Oscar nomination for Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker. Now finishing revisions on the final chapters….
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The set was cold, emotionally and physically. “Birdman of Alcatraz” became a triumph, and Thelma Ritter as Mrs.Stroud would earn a well-deserved final Oscar nomination for Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker. Now finishing revisions on the final chapters….
Tonight on @tcmtv.bsky.social #TCMParty
September 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tonight on @tcmtv.bsky.social #TCMParty
Thelma Ritter had five Western adventures: How The West Was Won, The Second Time Around, Frontier Circus, Wagon Train, and The Misfits. She knew how to ride a horse and shoot a pistol!
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thelma Ritter had five Western adventures: How The West Was Won, The Second Time Around, Frontier Circus, Wagon Train, and The Misfits. She knew how to ride a horse and shoot a pistol!
Now updating and revising Chapter 30 of “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood's Favorite New Yorker” with a cute anecdote about Raymond Burr…
August 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Now updating and revising Chapter 30 of “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood's Favorite New Yorker” with a cute anecdote about Raymond Burr…
Friend and @tcmtv.bsky.social Programmer Peter Bosch’s new book: “American Movie Comic Books: 1930’s -1970s!”Congratulations, Peter! #TCMParty
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August 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Friend and @tcmtv.bsky.social Programmer Peter Bosch’s new book: “American Movie Comic Books: 1930’s -1970s!”Congratulations, Peter! #TCMParty
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Sparks fly as Thelma Ritter faces off with Miriam Hopkins in 1951’s “The Mating Season” as two soon-to-be in-laws. Starring Gene Tierney and John Lund. This chapter revision in “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker” has 5,000 words!
August 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sparks fly as Thelma Ritter faces off with Miriam Hopkins in 1951’s “The Mating Season” as two soon-to-be in-laws. Starring Gene Tierney and John Lund. This chapter revision in “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker” has 5,000 words!
Now revising Chapter 27 for “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker” on 1953’s Titanic, with Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, and Audrey Dalton.
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@upmississippi.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Now revising Chapter 27 for “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker” on 1953’s Titanic, with Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, and Audrey Dalton.
@upmississippi.bsky.social
@upmississippi.bsky.social
The Misfits later tonight on @tcmtv.bsky.social …
August 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Misfits later tonight on @tcmtv.bsky.social …
Now revising and editing Chapters 11-15 of “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood's Favorite New Yorker”… (Pictured below: Thelma Ritter and Eva Gabor in the St. Catherine’s party scene from “A New Kind of Love” with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1963.)
August 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Now revising and editing Chapters 11-15 of “Thelma Ritter: Hollywood's Favorite New Yorker”… (Pictured below: Thelma Ritter and Eva Gabor in the St. Catherine’s party scene from “A New Kind of Love” with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1963.)
From The Misfits(1961). I enjoyed knowing Thelma Ritter sat next to Clark Gable while taking a break on the set….
July 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
From The Misfits(1961). I enjoyed knowing Thelma Ritter sat next to Clark Gable while taking a break on the set….
First draft done and sent to select readers at 113,980 words…
July 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
First draft done and sent to select readers at 113,980 words…
When Thelma Ritter starred with friend Doris Day and actor James Garner in “Move Over, Darling,” it was the last time she would have so much quality screen time before the end of her career…
June 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
When Thelma Ritter starred with friend Doris Day and actor James Garner in “Move Over, Darling,” it was the last time she would have so much quality screen time before the end of her career…
One Wednesday while working on a film in Hollywood in 1949, Thelma Ritter was staying at the Beverly Wiltshire, and a maid cleaning her room at the hotel accidentally threw out a letter from her husband who had sent her photos of her children…
June 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One Wednesday while working on a film in Hollywood in 1949, Thelma Ritter was staying at the Beverly Wiltshire, and a maid cleaning her room at the hotel accidentally threw out a letter from her husband who had sent her photos of her children…
Actress Thelma Ritter shows off her collection of whimsical penny-saver banks in a photo from one of her early newspaper interviews…
June 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Actress Thelma Ritter shows off her collection of whimsical penny-saver banks in a photo from one of her early newspaper interviews…
Richard Widmark had known Thelma Ritter from their radio days in the 1940s before they starred in Sam Fuller’s “Pick Up On South Street” in 1953….
May 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Richard Widmark had known Thelma Ritter from their radio days in the 1940s before they starred in Sam Fuller’s “Pick Up On South Street” in 1953….
Remembering my uncle, Avis Boyd Putnam, Private, Ship’s Cook, 3rd Class.
He was 19 years old, most likely working in the galley of the Arizona on December 7, 1941. His name is on the memorial at Pearl Harbor. He loved being in the Navy, having "3 squares a day," and seeing the world. R.I.P. 😢
He was 19 years old, most likely working in the galley of the Arizona on December 7, 1941. His name is on the memorial at Pearl Harbor. He loved being in the Navy, having "3 squares a day," and seeing the world. R.I.P. 😢
May 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Remembering my uncle, Avis Boyd Putnam, Private, Ship’s Cook, 3rd Class.
He was 19 years old, most likely working in the galley of the Arizona on December 7, 1941. His name is on the memorial at Pearl Harbor. He loved being in the Navy, having "3 squares a day," and seeing the world. R.I.P. 😢
He was 19 years old, most likely working in the galley of the Arizona on December 7, 1941. His name is on the memorial at Pearl Harbor. He loved being in the Navy, having "3 squares a day," and seeing the world. R.I.P. 😢
National Pearl Harbor Memorial…
May 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
National Pearl Harbor Memorial…
And the prices are so reasonable! #MildredPierce #TCMParty
May 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And the prices are so reasonable! #MildredPierce #TCMParty
Here an article I wrote about my mother for a local magazine several years ago…#MomsofBluesky #MothersDay
May 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Here an article I wrote about my mother for a local magazine several years ago…#MomsofBluesky #MothersDay
At Amoeba with @bobknip.bsky.social #TCMFF
May 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
At Amoeba with @bobknip.bsky.social #TCMFF
