LOS ANGELES: Jean Ritchie is chasing stardom.
The blond, blue-eyed actress fills her days with auditions and acting classes. She’s got new head shots, a new acting reel and dreams of seeing herself on television.
It’s an act that came later for Ritchie than for most. The starlet is 69.
To hone her acting, Ritchie moved into the NoHo Senior Arts Colony, a North Hollywood apartment complex for creative older people. She landed a casting agent with the help of a neighbor and attends Shakespeare classes in the urban-hip, loft-style senior living facility.
Her neighbors include a World War II veteran taking up poetry, septuagenarians learning how to dance and gray-haired painters.
“I moved here to get my career going,” said Ritchie, who spent her younger years as a stay-at-home mom in Oregon…