Zasu Pitts
Biography
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).
Known For
Acting
1924
asTrina
1932
asGertie
1963
asOlivia
1963
asGertie - Switchboard Operator
1925
asMandy Coulter
1928
asThe Maid
1930
asBella
1935
asMrs. Judson
1947
asCousin Cora Cartwright
1918
as
1950
asValerie Humpert
1931
asNora Dugan
1937
asLetitia Rondell
1934
asMatilda Hemingway
1929
asCaecilia
1929
asRose Gleason
1921
asPatsy
1928
asGermaine
1940
asMiss Flint
1929
asTelephone Girl
1946
asGuest star
1931
asZasu
1929
asThe Elk
1934
asMiss Hazy
1924
asDelia
1939
asCary Bingham
1931
asLiesl
1926
asHilda (as Zazu Pitts)
1957
asMrs. Shea
1936
asHildegarde Withers
1932
asMiss Leyton
1932
asAunt Dot
1923
asZasu Pitts
1930
asBertha
1931
asMinnie
1932
asSybil Smith
1932
asNora Rafferty
1937
asHildegarde Withers
1936
asMrs. Fay Kinney
1917
asBecky
1933
asZasu
1942
asAunt Emma Bates
1932
asMrs. Scudder
1935
asCora Upshaw
1952
asJane Dwyer
1942
asGeraldine
1941
asEmmy Sawyer
1941
asMyra Pottle
1930
asHilda
1930
asAnnie
1932
asMrs. Truesdale
1925
asMaggie Keenan
1929
asLena
1930
asMrs. Harney
1934
asAnnie Snodgrass
1943
asCornelia Pigeon
1935
asMaggie Conklin
1942
asMiss Pepper
1934
asMirabelle
1933
asElmerada de Leon
1931
asJennie
1961
asAunt Theodora
1941
asJulia Jordan
1932
asTemperance Worker
1933
asSybby 'Sib'
1941
asAnna, Craig's Maid
1941
asEmily Pepper
1933
asMaddie Skitch
1936
asMiss Harkins
1934
asTillie Prescott
1939
asMme. Moulin
1934
asEsthey Roberts
1930
asLouise
1930
asEthel
1931
asMrs. Hattie Haddock
1932
asGladys Fairweather
1932
asMorning Gazette Telephone Operator
1933
asMillie
1933
asMary Horner
1932
asGabby Woman
1933
asZasu
1924
asMona
1932
asZasu Pitts
1933
asZasu
1932
asZasu
1926
asAgnes Wheaton
1931
asFritzi Mobley
1932
asFlorrie
1932
asDot
1931
asZaSu
1927
asCamille
1932
asMiss Pitts
1931
asMrs. Bassett
1925
asRuth Fanning
1931
asKatie
1942
asAggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)
1933
asMiss Pitts
1935
asSusan Todd
1936
asGwen Logan
1933
asConnie Clark
1919
asJennie Jones, The Jazz Kid
1933
asAunt Sylvia
1918
asOscar's Sweetheart
1923
asMickey
1926
asNancy
1923
asSelf - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
1917
asA Kansas Belle (uncredited)
1933
asBonny
1922
asMary Cosgrove
1931
asZasu
1932
asZasu
1931
asZasu
1932
asZasu
1932
asPitts
1932
asMiss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury
1931
asZasu Pitts
1933
asZasu Pitts
1932
asZasu
1928
asCecelia Schweisser
1918
asMary
1935
asEsmeralda
1931
asBella
1939
asAunt Penelope Hardwick
1934
asTillie Whim
1930
asPauline Hastings
1941
asPandora Polly
1930
asCushie
1926
asHope Durant
1917
asUndetermined Role (uncredited)
1917
asParty Guest (uncredited)
1920
asKatie Abbott
1939
asLilly Handy
1934
asMiss Coates
1929
asMrs. Wyatt
1918
asEmily
1932
asAnna, Holderlin's Maid
1946
asElvira Spriggens
1931
asMiss Dibbs
1932
asMrs. Dole
1929
asTillie
1934
asAraminta Tootle
1955
asSelma
1935
asBelle McGill
1954
asValerie Humpert
1924
asCelia Stebbins
1940
asPauline Hastings
1933
asBeula
1925
asSelf
1930
asMayme
1934
asAlice Mudge
1926
asAnnie Pogani
1930
asMonica
1934
asHerself
1939
asDulcey Lee
1947
asRosa
1925
asPolly Jordan
1930
asAda, the Maid
1929
asHarriet
1928
asHulda
1925
as
1922
asJennie Dunn
1964
asMirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
1933
asMolly Hull
1929
asClara Bertrand
1937
asWinnie Oatfield
1929
asTimmins
1923
asZasu Pitts (uncredited)
1919
asNancy Scroggs
1923
as'Brainy' Jones
1923
asApple Annie
1926
asEvelyn
1959
asSelf
1924
asAmelia Pugsley
1928
asMother Spengler
1932
asPolly Perkins
1949
as1920
asBetty Lawrence
1926
asMrs. Dugan
1925
asLuella Logan
1917
asSuza - the Editor's Assistant
1917
as
1924
asDessie Arnhalt
1919
asKatie Jones
1926
asGladys Smith
1917
as1917
asPerscilla
1925
asJudy
1919
asDaisy Perkins
asMrs. Bowie
asDaphne Whilom
asAunt Laura
asas as 
asBelinda Pryde
as
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asSelf
asSelma
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