Zasu Pitts

Acting •1894-01-02 •Parsons, Kansas, USA

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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代表作

1932 · Anna, Holderlin's Maid

1934 · Esthey Roberts

Once in a Lifetime

1932 · Miss Leyton

结婚进行曲

1928 · Cecelia Schweisser

红谷英仆

1935 · Mrs. Judson

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全部作品

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 •Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

泡沫之恋

1963 •Olivia

疯狂世界

1963 •Gertie - Switchboard Operator

Burke's Law

1963 •Mrs. Bowie

Teenage Millionaire

1961 •Aunt Theodora

Guestward, Ho!

1960

Disneyland '59

1959 •Self

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

1959

This Could Be the Night

1957 •Mrs. Shea

梅森探案集

1957 •Daphne Whilom

展开全部作品

The Gale Storm Show

1956

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955 •Selma

神骡大闹脂粉阵

1954 •Valerie Humpert

General Electric Theater

1953 •Aunt Laura

Private Secretary

1953

丹佛铁路

1952 •Jane Dwyer

Francis

1950 •Valerie Humpert

我的线路是什么？

1950 •Self

Lum and Abner

1949

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 •Belinda Pryde

天伦乐

1947 •Cousin Cora Cartwright

The Perfect Marriage

1947 •Rosa

Dear Miss Gloria

1946 •Guest star

Breakfast in Hollywood

1946 •Elvira Spriggens

贴错门神

1943 •Cornelia Pigeon

So's Your Aunt Emma!

1942 •Aunt Emma Bates

The Bashful Bachelor

1942 •Geraldine

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

1942 •Miss Pepper

Tish

1942 •Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)

Niagara Falls

1941 •Emmy Sawyer

香艳亲王

1941 •Myra Pottle

Uncle Joe

1941 •Julia Jordan

Weekend for Three

1941 •Anna, Craig's Maid

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

1941 •Emily Pepper

Miss Polly

1941 •Pandora Polly

It All Came True

1940 •Miss Flint

No, No, Nanette

1940 •Pauline Hastings

Eternally Yours

1939 •Cary Bingham

Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 •Mme. Moulin

Naughty But Nice

1939 •Aunt Penelope Hardwick

Mickey the Kid

1939 •Lilly Handy

The Lady's from Kentucky

1939 •Dulcey Lee

52nd Street

1937 •Letitia Rondell

Forty Naughty Girls

1937 •Hildegarde Withers

Wanted!

1937 •Winnie Oatfield

The Plot Thickens

1936 •Hildegarde Withers

Mad Holiday

1936 •Mrs. Fay Kinney

天空情侠

1936 •Miss Harkins

Sing Me a Love Song

1936 •Gwen Logan

红谷英仆

1935 •Mrs. Judson

Going Highbrow

1935 •Cora Upshaw

Spring Tonic

1935 •Maggie Conklin

The Affair of Susan

1935 •Susan Todd

She Gets Her Man

1935 •Esmeralda

Hot Tip

1935 •Belle McGill

美女

1934 •Matilda Hemingway

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1934 •Miss Hazy

Sing and Like It

1934 •Annie Snodgrass

The Gay Bride

1934 •Mirabelle

The Meanest Gal in Town

1934 •Tillie Prescott

Two Alone

1934 •Esthey Roberts

Their Big Moment

1934 •Tillie Whim

Private Scandal

1934 •Miss Coates

Love Birds

1934 •Araminta Tootle

Three on a Honeymoon

1934 •Alice Mudge

And She Learned About Dames

1934 •Herself

Meet the Baron

1933 •Zasu

专业甜心

1933 •Elmerada

阿普尔比制作的男子

1933 •Sybby 'Sib'

Mr. Skitch

1933 •Maddie Skitch

你好，姐姐

1933 •Millie

Her First Mate

1933 •Mary Horner

The Bargain of the Century

1933 •Zasu

Asleep in the Feet

1933 •Zasu

Maids a la Mode

1933 •Miss Pitts

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

1933 •Connie Clark

The Vanishing Frontier

1933 •Aunt Sylvia

Out All Night

1933 •Bonny

One Track Minds

1933 •Zasu Pitts

She Whoops To Conquer

1933 •Beula

They Just Had to Get Married

1933 •Molly Hull

Mother's Helper

1933

Blondie of the Follies

1932 •Gertie

Once in a Lifetime

1932 •Miss Leyton

终成眷属

1932 •Aunt Dot

The Crooked Circle

1932 •Nora Rafferty

Strangers of the Evening

1932 •Sybil Smith

Make Me a Star

1932 •Mrs. Scudder

Westward Passage

1932 •Mrs. Truesdale

Destry Rides Again

1932 •Temperance Worker

薇薇恩·瓦尔的审判

1932 •Gladys Fairweather

Is My Face Red?

1932 •Morning Gazette Telephone Operator

轰鸣的龙

1932 •Gabby Woman

Show Business

1932 •Zasu

Sealskins

1932 •Zasu Pitts

Madison Square Garden

1932 •Florrie

Steady Company

1932 •Dot

Red Noses

1932 •Miss Pitts

The Soilers

1932 •Zasu

The Old Bull

1932 •Zasu

Strictly Unreliable

1932 •Pitts

Sneak Easily

1932 •Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury

Alum and Eve

1932 •Zasu

我杀的那位

1932 •Anna, Holderlin's Maid

Back Street

1932 •Mrs. Dole

The Unexpected Father

1932 •Polly Perkins

The Big Gamble

1931 •Nora Dugan

On the Loose

1931 •Zasu

The Guardsman

1931 •Liesl

The Bad Sister

1931 •Minnie

Seed

1931 •Jennie

Finn and Hattie

1931 •Mrs. Hattie Haddock

Beyond Victory

1931 •Fritzi Mobley

Catch-As Catch-Can

1931 •ZaSu

Penrod and Sam

1931 •Mrs. Bassett

A Woman of Experience

1931 •Katie

War Mamas

1931 •Zasu

The Pajama Party

1931 •Zasu

Let's Do Things

1931 •Zasu Pitts

The Secret Witness

1931 •Bella

Their Mad Moment

1931 •Miss Dibbs

The Squealer

1930 •Bella

赌城艳史

1930 •Bertha

The Lottery Bride

1930 •Hilda

罪恶休假

1930 •Annie

Passion Flower

1930 •Mrs. Harney

River's End

1930 •Louise

魔鬼假日

1930 •Ethel

不，不，南妮特

1930 •Pauline Hastings

War Nurse

1930 •Cushie

Honey

1930 •Mayme

Little Accident

1930 •Monica

Free Love

1930 •Ada, the Maid

The Honeymoon

1929 •Caecilia

The Dummy

1929 •Rose Gleason

The Locked Door

1929 •Telephone Girl

Oh, Yeah!

1929 •The Elk

The Squall

1929 •Lena

菱花谜案

1929 •Mrs. Wyatt

Twin Beds

1929 •Tillie

Paris

1929 •Harriet

This Thing Called Love

1929 •Clara Bertrand

Her Private Life

1929 •Timmins

13 Washington Square

1928 •The Maid

Wife Savers

1928 •Germaine

结婚进行曲

1928 •Cecelia Schweisser

Buck Privates

1928 •Hulda

Sins of the Fathers

1928 •Mother Spengler

Casey at the Bat

1927 •Camille

琼斯历险记

1926 •Hilda (as Zazu Pitts)

Risky Business

1926 •Agnes Wheaton

The Great Love

1926 •Nancy

Monte Carlo

1926 •Hope Durant

Mannequin

1926 •Annie Pogani

Sunny Side Up

1926 •Evelyn

Early to Wed

1926 •Mrs. Dugan

Her Big Night

1926 •Gladys Smith

Thunder Mountain

1925 •Mandy Coulter

Pretty Ladies

1925 •Maggie Keenan

Lazybones

1925 •Ruth Fanning

1925 Studio Tour

1925 •Self

The Great Divide

1925 •Polly Jordan

Old Shoes

1925

Wages for Wives

1925 •Luella Logan

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

1925 •Judy

A Woman's Faith

1925 •Blanche Odile

贪婪

1924 •Trina

Changing Husbands

1924 •Delia

The Fast Set

1924 •Mona

Secrets of the Night

1924 •Celia Stebbins

The Goldfish

1924 •Amelia Pugsley

West of the Water Tower

1924 •Dessie Arnhalt

Daughters of Today

1924 •Lorena

Hollywood

1923 •Zasu Pitts

Three Wise Fools

1923 •Mickey

Souls for Sale

1923 •Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary

Mary of the Movies

1923 •Zasu Pitts (uncredited)

Tea- With a Kick!

1923 •'Brainy' Jones

Poor Men's Wives

1923 •Apple Annie

The Girl Who Came Back

1923 •Anastasia Muldoon

A Daughter of Luxury

1922 •Mary Cosgrove

For the Defense

1922 •Jennie Dunn

Is Matrimony a Failure?

1922 •Mrs. Wilbur

Youth to Youth

1922 •Emily

Patsy

1921 •Patsy

Heart of Twenty

1920 •Katie Abbott

Seeing It Through

1920 •Betty Lawrence

The Other Half

1919 •Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid

Better Times

1919 •Nancy Scroggs

Men, Women, and Money

1919 •Katie Jones

Poor Relations

1919 •Daisy Perkins

As the Sun Went Down

1919 •Sal Sue

The Talk of the Town

1918

How Could You, Jean?

1918 •Oscar's Sweetheart

名流与底层

1918 •Mary

A Lady's Name

1918 •Emily

A Little Princess

1917 •Becky

A Modern Musketeer

1917 •A Kansas Belle (uncredited)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1917 •Undetermined Role (uncredited)

1849-1917

1917 •Party Guest (uncredited)

Uneasy Money

1917 •Suza - the Editor's Assistant

Tillie of the Nine Lives

1917

A Desert Dilemma

1917

His Fatal Beauty

1917 •Perscilla

Why They Left Home

1917 •Mary Mandrake