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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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28 January 1923
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
01 August 1961
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations.
19 August 1923
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville.
08 July 1932
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area.
08 February 1950
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind.
10 December 1932
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
17 April 1942
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
15 June 1959
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland".
30 December 1917
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers.
06 November 1925
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town.
17 July 1963
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
27 May 1932
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
16 May 1952
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
29 March 1931
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme.
13 June 1941
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
29 September 1930
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
07 October 1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour.
04 August 1932
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
14 April 1933
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together.
13 November 1936
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
01 October 1931
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale.
07 November 1963
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California.
22 September 1917
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda.
06 October 1928
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
30 July 1954
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
29 October 1932
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
04 December 1924
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
19 August 1923
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit.
06 June 1931
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
14 November 1931
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
26 December 1931
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud.
06 September 1925
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy.
28 October 1934
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr.
14 May 1957
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
08 February 1926
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
14 December 1934
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
22 June 1924
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town.
02 October 1932
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
22 April 1923
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
22 December 1933
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew.
06 July 1935
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
16 November 1929
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
14 November 1941
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets.
26 August 1923
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room.
04 September 1931
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
20 October 1931
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage.
09 June 1933
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths.
25 September 1932
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
06 December 1930
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
22 November 1930
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
01 September 1935
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
13 September 1947
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
08 July 1931
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
21 December 1955
When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool.
04 February 1931
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred.
01 October 1933
A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
04 November 1932
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty.
