Zasu Pitts
Zasu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) 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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Filme (196)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Gertie - Switchboard Operator
The Thrill of It All
1963 · Olivia
Teenage Millionaire
1961 · Aunt Theodora
Disneyland '59
1959 · Self
This Could Be the Night
1957 · Mrs. Shea
Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · Valerie Humpert
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · Jane Dwyer
Francis
1950 · Valerie Humpert
Lum and Abner
1949
Life with Father
1947 · Cousin Cora Cartwright
The Perfect Marriage
1947 · Rosa
Breakfast in Hollywood
1946 · Elvira Spriggens
Dear Miss Gloria
1946 · Guest star
Let's Face It
1943 · Cornelia Pigeon
Tish
1942 · Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)
So's Your Aunt Emma!
1942 · Aunt Emma Bates
The Bashful Bachelor
1942 · Geraldine
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · Miss Pepper
Weekend for Three
1941 · Anna, Craig's Maid
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941 · Emily Pepper
Miss Polly
1941 · Pandora Polly
Uncle Joe
1941 · Julia Jordan
Niagara Falls
1941 · Emmy Sawyer
Broadway Limited
1941 · Myra Pottle
No, No, Nanette
1940 · Pauline Hastings
It All Came True
1940 · Miss Flint
Eternally Yours
1939 · Mrs. Bingham
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Mme. Moulin
Mickey the Kid
1939 · Lilly Handy
Naughty but Nice
1939 · Aunt Penelope Hardwick
The Lady's from Kentucky
1939 · Dulcey Lee
52nd Street
1937 · Letitia Rondell
Forty Naughty Girls
1937 · Hildegarde Withers
Wanted!
1937 · Winnie Oatfield
Sing Me a Love Song
1936 · Gwen Logan
The Plot Thickens
1936 · Hildegarde Withers
Mad Holiday
1936 · Mrs. Fay Kinney
13 Hours by Air
1936 · Miss Harkins
The Affair of Susan
1935 · Susan Todd
Hot Tip
1935 · Belle McGill
She Gets Her Man
1935 · Esmeralda
Going Highbrow
1935 · Cora Upshaw
Spring Tonic
1935 · Maggie Conklin
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Mrs. Judson
The Gay Bride
1934 · Mirabelle
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934 · Miss Hazy
Dames
1934 · Matilda Hemingway
Their Big Moment
1934 · Tillie Whim
Private Scandal
1934 · Miss Coates
Love Birds
1934 · Araminta Tootle
Sing and Like It
1934 · Annie Snodgrass
And She Learned About Dames
1934 · Herself
Three on a Honeymoon
1934 · Alice Mudge
Two Alone
1934 · Esthey Roberts
The Meanest Gal in Town
1934 · Tillie Prescott
Mr. Skitch
1933 · Maddie Skitch
Meet the Baron
1933 · Zasu
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933 · Sybby 'Sib'
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
1933 · Connie Clark
Mother's Helper
1933
Her First Mate
1933 · Mary Horner
Professional Sweetheart
1933 · Elmerada
One Track Minds
1933 · Zasu Pitts
Hello, Sister!
1933 · Millie
The Bargain of the Century
1933 · Zasu
Out All Night
1933 · Bonny
The Vanishing Frontier
1933 · Aunt Sylvia
Maids a la Mode
1933 · Miss Pitts
Asleep in the Feet
1933 · Zasu
They Just Had to Get Married
1933 · Molly Hull
She Whoops To Conquer
1933 · Beula
Sneak Easily
1932 · Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury
Madison Square Garden
1932 · Florrie
The Soilers
1932 · Zasu
Once in a Lifetime
1932 · Miss Leyton
The Crooked Circle
1932 · Nora Rafferty
Alum and Eve
1932 · Zasu
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Gertie
Show Business
1932 · Zasu
Back Street
1932 · Mrs. Dole
Roar of the Dragon
1932 · Gabby Woman
Make Me a Star
1932 · Mrs. Scudder
Is My Face Red?
1932 · Morning Gazette Telephone Operator
The Old Bull
1932 · Zasu
Westward Passage
1932 · Mrs. Truesdale
Strangers of the Evening
1932 · Sybil Smith
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932 · Gladys Fairweather
Strictly Unreliable
1932 · Pitts
Destry Rides Again
1932 · Temperance Worker
Shopworn
1932 · Aunt Dot
Red Noses
1932 · Miss Pitts
Steady Company
1932 · Dot
Sealskins
1932 · Zasu Pitts
Broken Lullaby
1932 · Anna, Holderlin's Maid
The Unexpected Father
1932 · Polly Perkins
On the Loose
1931 · Zasu
The Secret Witness
1931 · Bella
War Mamas
1931 · Zasu
The Guardsman
1931 · Liesl
The Pajama Party
1931 · Zasu
Penrod and Sam
1931 · Mrs. Bassett
The Big Gamble
1931 · Nora Dugan
Catch-As Catch-Can
1931 · ZaSu
Their Mad Moment
1931 · Miss Dibbs
A Woman of Experience
1931 · Katie
Let's Do Things
1931 · Zasu Pitts
Seed
1931 · Jennie
Beyond Victory
1931 · Fritzi Mobley
The Bad Sister
1931 · Minnie
Finn and Hattie
1931 · Mrs. Hattie Haddock
Passion Flower
1930 · Mrs. Harney
Free Love
1930 · Ada, the Maid
War Nurse
1930 · Cushie
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 · Annie
River's End
1930 · Louise
The Lottery Bride
1930 · Hilda
Monte Carlo
1930 · Bertha
The Squealer
1930 · Bella
Little Accident
1930 · Monica
The Devil's Holiday
1930 · Ethel
Honey
1930 · Mayme
No, No, Nanette
1930 · Pauline Hastings
The Honeymoon
1929 · Caecilia
This Thing Called Love
1929 · Clara Bertrand
The Locked Door
1929 · Telephone Girl
Paris
1929 · Harriet
Oh, Yeah!
1929 · The Elk
Her Private Life
1929 · Timmins
The Argyle Case
1929 · Mrs. Wyatt
Twin Beds
1929 · Tillie
The Squall
1929 · Lena
The Dummy
1929 · Rose Gleason
Sins of the Fathers
1928 · Mother Spengler
The Wedding March
1928 · Cecelia Schweisser
Buck Privates
1928 · Hulda
13 Washington Square
1928 · The Maid
Wife Savers
1928 · Germaine
Casey at the Bat
1927 · Camille
Her Big Night
1926 · Gladys Smith
Risky Business
1926 · Agnes Wheaton
Sunny Side Up
1926 · Evelyn
The Great Love
1926 · Nancy
Early to Wed
1926 · Mrs. Dugan
Monte Carlo
1926 · Hope Durant
What Happened to Jones?
1926 · Hilda (as Zazu Pitts)
Mannequin
1926 · Annie Pogani
Wages for Wives
1925 · Luella Logan
Lazybones
1925 · Ruth Fanning
Thunder Mountain
1925 · Mandy Coulter
Pretty Ladies
1925 · Maggie Keenan
A Woman's Faith
1925 · Blanche Odile
The Business of Love
1925 · Miss Wright
1925 Studio Tour
1925 · Self
Old Shoes
1925
The Great Divide
1925 · Polly Jordan
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
1925 · Judy
Greed
1924 · Trina
Secrets of the Night
1924 · Celia Stebbins
The Fast Set
1924 · Mona
Changing Husbands
1924 · Delia
The Goldfish
1924 · Amelia Pugsley
Daughters of Today
1924 · Lorena
West of the Water Tower
1924 · Dessie Arnhalt
Tea- With a Kick!
1923 · 'Brainy' Jones
Hollywood
1923 · Zasu Pitts
Three Wise Fools
1923 · Mickey
Mary of the Movies
1923 · Zasu Pitts (uncredited)
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
The Girl Who Came Back
1923 · Anastasia Muldoon
Poor Men's Wives
1923 · Apple Annie
Youth to Youth
1922 · Emily
For the Defense
1922 · Jennie Dunn
Is Matrimony a Failure?
1922 · Mrs. Wilbur
A Daughter of Luxury
1922 · Mary Cosgrove
Patsy
1921 · Patsy
Heart of Twenty
1920 · Katie Abbott
Seeing It Through
1920 · Betty Lawrence
Poor Relations
1919 · Daisy Perkins
The Other Half
1919 · Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid
Better Times
1919 · Nancy Scroggs
Men, Women, and Money
1919 · Katie Jones
As the Sun Went Down
1919 · Sal Sue
A Lady's Name
1918 · Emily
The Talk of the Town
1918
A Society Sensation
1918 · Mary
How Could You, Jean?
1918 · Oscar's Sweetheart
A Modern Musketeer
1917 · A Kansas Belle (uncredited)
A Little Princess
1917 · Becky
'49 – '17
1917 · Party Guest (uncredited)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917 · Undetermined Role (uncredited)
His Fatal Beauty
1917 · Perscilla
A Desert Dilemma
1917
Tillie of the Nine Lives
1917
Uneasy Money
1917 · Suza - the Editor's Assistant
Why They Left Home
1917 · Mary Mandrake
Serien (11)
Burke's Law
1963 · Mrs. Bowie
Guestward, Ho!
1960
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1959
Perry Mason
1957 · Daphne Whilom
The Gale Storm Show
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Selma
General Electric Theater
1953 · Aunt Laura
Private Secretary
1953
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Belinda Pryde