Zasu Pitts
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1894-01-03
- Fallecimiento:
- 1963-06-07
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA
Biografía
Zasu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) 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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Filmografía
El gran desfile de la comedia
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco
El agente Burke
Su pequeña aventura
Teenage Millionaire
Guestward, Ho!
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Disneyland '59
Perry Mason
This Could Be the Night
The Gale Storm Show
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Screen Director's Playhouse
Francis Joins the WACS
General Electric Theater
Private Secretary
Denver y Rio Grande
Mi mula Francis
What's My Line?
Lum and Abner
The Philco Television Playhouse
Vivir con papá
The Perfect Marriage
Breakfast in Hollywood
Dear Miss Gloria
Let's Face It
Tish
So's Your Aunt Emma!
The Bashful Bachelor
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Weekend for Three
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Miss Polly
Uncle Joe
Niagara Falls
El expreso de Broadway
No, No, Nanette
It All Came True
Eternamente tuya
Nurse Edith Cavell
Mickey the Kid
Naughty but Nice
The Lady's from Kentucky
52nd Street
Forty Naughty Girls
Wanted!
Sing Me a Love Song
El detective y su compañera (Misterio en el museo)
Mad Holiday
13 Hours by Air
The Affair of Susan
Hot Tip
She Gets Her Man
Going Highbrow
Spring Tonic
Nobleza obliga
The Gay Bride
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Dames
Their Big Moment
Private Scandal
Love Birds
Sing and Like it
And She Learned About Dames
Three on a Honeymoon
Two Alone
The Meanest Gal in Town
Mr. Skitch
Meet the Baron
Aggie Appleby, creadora de hombres
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Mother's Helper
El capitán disloque
Novia profesional
One Track Minds
Hello, Sister!
The Bargain of the Century
Out All Night
The Vanishing Frontier
Maids a la Mode
Asleep in the Feet
Hubo que casarlos
She Whoops To Conquer
Sneak Easily
Madison Square Garden
The Soilers
Una vez en la vida
The Crooked Circle
Alum and Eve
La rubia del Follies
Show Business
La usurpadora
Roar of the Dragon
Make Me a Star
¡Mira como tiemblo!
The Old Bull
Westward Passage
Strangers of the Evening
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Strictly Unreliable
Destry Rides Again
Cruel desengaño
Red Noses
Steady Company
Sealskins
Remordimiento
The Unexpected Father
On the Loose
The Secret Witness
War Mamas
The Guardsman
The Pajama Party
Penrod and Sam
The Big Gamble
Catch-As Catch-Can
Their Mad Moment
A Woman of Experience
Let's Do Things
Semilla
Beyond Victory
Mala hermana
Finn and Hattie
Flor del mal
Free Love
War Nurse
El precio de una mujer
River's End
The Lottery Bride
Monte Carlo
The Squealer
Little Accident
The Devil's Holiday
Honey
No, No, Nanette
The Honeymoon
This Thing Called Love
La puerta cerrada
Paris
Oh, Yeah!
Her Private Life
The Argyle Case
Twin Beds
The Squall
The Dummy
Sins of the Fathers
La marcha nupcial
Buck Privates
13 Washington Square
Wife Savers
Casey at the Bat
Her Big Night
Risky Business
Sunny Side Up
The Great Love
Early to Wed
Monte Carlo
What Happened to Jones?
Mannequin
Wages for Wives
El tumbón
Thunder Mountain
El jazz-Band del Follies
A Woman's Faith
1925 Studio Tour
Old Shoes
The Great Divide
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
Avaricia
Secrets of the Night
The Fast Set
Changing Husbands
The Goldfish
Daughters of Today
West of the Water Tower
Tea- With a Kick!
Hollywood
Tres solterones discretos
Mary of the Movies
Souls for Sale
The Girl Who Came Back
Poor Men's Wives
Youth to Youth
For the Defense
Is Matrimony a Failure?
A Daughter of Luxury
Patsy
Heart of Twenty
Seeing It Through
Poor Relations
La otra mitad
Better Times
Men, Women, and Money
As the Sun Went Down
A Lady's Name
The Talk of the Town
A Society Sensation
How Could You, Jean?
A Modern Musketeer
A Little Princess
'49 – '17
Rebeca de la granja del sol
His Fatal Beauty
A Desert Dilemma
Tillie of the Nine Lives
Uneasy Money
Why They Left Home