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Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed.
Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received.
In the 1950s she started focusing on television. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on CBS's The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah) in the role of Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. In 1961, Pitts was cast opposite Earle Hodgins in the episode "Lonesome's Gal" on the ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1962, Pitts appeared in an episode of CBS's Perry Mason, "The Case of the Absent Artist". Her final role was as Gertie, the switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
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28 January 1923
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
01 January 1922
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove.
08 July 1932
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area.
13 July 1919
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
04 March 1933
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
18 March 1932
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
04 June 1932
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn.
02 October 1932
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
01 March 1926
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
27 April 1939
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times.
07 November 1929
Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.
07 October 1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour.
10 December 1932
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
28 November 1941
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
05 August 1935
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
19 November 1937
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
20 October 1931
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage.
11 January 1926
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman.
13 November 1936
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
22 December 1933
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew.
22 August 1931
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
20 August 1932
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
27 May 1923
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress.
05 January 1933
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
01 September 1934
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
15 February 1925
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her.
04 June 1922
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back.
01 August 1961
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations.
06 July 1935
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy.
01 September 1935
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
14 May 1931
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children.
24 September 1932
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
29 October 1932
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
20 August 1930
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life.
27 June 1935
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
01 December 1930
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
23 June 1917
Stuck in the desert ZaSu pratfalls her way out.
06 February 1932
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
01 October 1931
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale.
22 April 1923
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
04 May 1934
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert.
19 August 1923
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit.
07 November 1963
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California.
06 June 1931
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
06 September 1925
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy.
20 August 1935
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
10 February 1919
Although a female, gunfighter "Colonel Billy" is feared by the men of Rattlesnake Gulch, a mining camp in California.
08 February 1950
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
06 November 1925
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
22 June 1924
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town.
16 November 1929
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
14 November 1941
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets.
26 August 1923
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room.
04 September 1931
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
09 June 1933
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths.
16 May 1952
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
