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Thelma Ritter's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American character actress known for her strong New York City accent, diminutive size, and plain look; she favored working-class roles and earned a Tony Award and six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, more than any other actress in the category. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Best Actress in a Musical (New Girl in Town) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1958 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — New Girl in Town as Marthy Owen
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Thelma Ritter's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Thelma Ritter. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Thelma Ritter in the public record
These nominations were for her performances in All About Eve (1950), The Mating Season (1951), With a Song in My Heart (1952), Pickup on South Street (1953), Pillow Talk (1959), and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her other film roles include those in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Rear Window (1954), The Misfits (1961), and How the West Was Won (1962). Ritter shared the 1958 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for performance in the musical New Girl in Town with her co-star Gwen Verdon. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination for Goodyear Television Playhouse in 1956.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Thelma Ritter (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Thelma Ritter's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 6♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Responsible Mind
- 2♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Skeptical Partner
- 9♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Idealistic Mind
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Dynamic Innovator
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♦, J♣, 3♠, 6♠, 2♠, 9♠, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Ethel Merman — 1951 Best Actress in a Musical (Call Me Madam)
- Gertrude Lawrence — 1952 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
- Gregory Hines — 1992 Best Actor in a Musical (Jelly's Last Jam)
- Harvey Fierstein — 1983 Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy); 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray)
- John Lloyd Young — 2006 Best Actor in a Musical (Jersey Boys)
- Lesley Manville — 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)
- Mary-Louise Parker — 2001 Best Actress in a Play (Proof); 2020 Best Actress in a Play (The Sound Inside)
- Tracy Letts — 2013 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
FAQ
- What is Thelma Ritter's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Thelma Ritter's dates come from?
- Birth date 1902-02-14 is the day-precision date on Thelma Ritter's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q229266) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Thelma Ritter). Birth date 1902-02-14 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).