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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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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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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(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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Howard M. Railsback and Raymond E. Swartley and starring Gale Storm, ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville. It was a second feature distributed by Monogram...
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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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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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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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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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"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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Withers-Oscar Piper series, and the second film in which ZaSu Pitts appeared as Hildegarde. Before Pitts, Edna May Oliver and Helen Broderick had played the...
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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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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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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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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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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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nasal vocal quality and expression, "Oh, dear!", on the character actress ZaSu Pitts. [citation needed] When Hanna-Barbera began making the All New Popeye...
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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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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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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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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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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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Broderick The Plot Thickens (1936), starring ZaSu Pitts Forty Naughty Girls (1937), starring ZaSu Pitts 1950s lost TV sitcom pilot Amazing Miss Withers...
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Roach, and starring ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd. Laurel and Hardy make a guest appearance. The short begins with Thelma and ZaSu entering their shared...
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mystery film directed by Ben Holmes starring James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts and Louise Latimer. Pitts plays the schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers...
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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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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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