All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Thelma Ritter, ranked

Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. Jeff Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. He spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Margo Channing is one of the biggest stars on Broadway. Eve tells the group gathered in Margo’s dressing room—Karen, Lloyd, Margo’s boyfriend, Bill Sampson, a director who is eight years her junior, and Margo’s maid Birdie —that she followed Margo’s last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco.

While serving a life sentence at Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer, nurses a sick bird that enters his cell back to health, eventually transforming into an internationally recognized expert in ornithology.