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    6554 Hollywood Blvd. ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas, the third of four children of Rulandus and Nelly (née Shay) Pitts. Her father, who had lost...
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  • Pitts and Todd were a 1930s movie comedy duo consisting of actresses ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd. Assembled by Hal Roach as the female counterparts to...
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  • The ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra was formed in San Francisco by Stephen Ashman, a bass-player. They released several LPs in the 1984-1987 time period...
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    Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague; ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife; and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and...
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    between 1926 and 1935, she is remembered for her comedic roles opposite ZaSu Pitts, and in films such as Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers...
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  • Look up pitts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitts is the surname of: Alabama Pitts (1909–1941), American baseball player and convicted robber Allen...
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    interest waned during World War I. In 1914 Swanton acted as agent of actress ZaSu Pitts, and staged a benefit performance at the Opera House to finance the start...
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  • The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs include "When You Were...
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    1930 American Pre-Code film starring Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, ZaSu Pitts, James Kirkwood, Sr., Hobart Bosworth, and Ned Sparks. The movie was adapted...
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    McCarey and starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the best-selling...
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    characters). Questel styled Olive's voice and delivery after those of actress ZaSu Pitts. In 1938, Margie Hines took over as the voice of Olive Oyl, starting with...
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    "Zasu Pitts Makes Like Crazy In a Zany 'Ramshackle Inn'". Evening Star. Washington, D.C. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com. "Play Written Expressly for ZaSu Pitts"...
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    (who was billed over Davis). The cast also includes Humphrey Bogart and ZaSu Pitts in supporting roles. Bad Sister has been preserved in the Library of Congress...
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    stars Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge, and ZaSu Pitts. It follows tourists and a riverboat crew as they resist attacks from...
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    Norman Kerry as Captain Richard Crewe Anne Schaefer as Amelia Minchin ZaSu Pitts as Becky Gertrude Short as Ermengarde Theodore Roberts as Cassim Gustav...
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    the DuMont and NBC television networks. Gallery was married to actress ZaSu Pitts from 1920 to 1933. Dinty (1920) The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920) A Parisian...
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    friend, actress ZaSu Pitts, and Pitts' husband, film executive Tom Gallery. After La Marr's death, the child was legally adopted by Pitts and Gallery; renamed...
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  • supporting cast featuring Carl Reiner, Arlene Francis, Reginald Owen and ZaSu Pitts. The screenplay was written by Carl Reiner from a story by Larry Gelbart...
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  • Clarence Sr. and his wife, supported by Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon, and Martin Milner. Stockbroker Clarence Day is the benevolent...
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  • directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Marjorie Woodworth, Tom Brown and ZaSu Pitts. A comedy of errors, it was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. A peanut...
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  • directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, ZaSu Pitts, Mamie Van Doren and Chill Wills in two roles, including that of the distinctive...
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    Stroheim's now-lost film Walking Down Broadway. The film stars James Dunn, ZaSu Pitts, Minna Gombell, and Boots Mallory. The story follows the relationship...
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    Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of...
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  • directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe and ZaSu Pitts. The film takes its name from the Broadway Limited train that the Pennsylvania...
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    Jimmy Durante as Joe McGoo – the Favorite "Schnozzle" of the Screen ZaSu Pitts as Zasu, Upstairs Maid Ted Healy as Head Janitor Edna May Oliver as Dean Primrose...
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    supporting cast including Broderick Crawford, Billie Burke, Eve Arden, ZaSu Pitts, and C. Aubrey Smith. Composer Werner Janssen was nominated for the Academy...
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    sound-on-film process. The film stars Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts. Paramount Pictures forced von Stroheim to create two films from the footage...
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  • who plays the elevator operator, Dian Fauntelle, and silent film star ZaSu Pitts. Scottish actor Andy Clyde, prior to The Real McCoys, appears in the 1954...
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    Santa Rosita Police Department Cliff Norton as reporter (scene deleted) ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard...
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  • Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's...
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