ZaSu Pitts

ZaSu Pitts Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: January 3, 1894

Death Date: June 7, 1963

Birth Place: Parsons, Kansas

Zasu Pitts was a lead and supporting player who first gained attention for her performance in Erich Von Stroheim's mammoth "Greed" (1924). With the emergence of sound Pitts established herself as an endearingly daffy comedienne, often in support of Thelma Todd or in tandem with Slim Summerville.

Pitts' trademark wailing voice and fluttering hands were last seen on screen in Stanley Kramer's 1963 film, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

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The Thrill of It All

Actor
Olivia
Movie
1963
89%

Teenage Millionaire

Actor
Movie
1961

Perry MasonStream

Guest Star
Daphne Whilom
Series
1957

The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna

Actor
Show
1956

Hour of Stars

Actor
Show
1955

Screen Directors Playhouse

Actor
Show
1955

Francis Joins the WACS

Actor
Lt. Valerie Humpert
Movie
1954

I've Got a SecretStream

Guest
Game Show
1952

Denver & Rio Grande

Actor
Jane Dwyer
Movie
1952

What's My Line?Stream

Guest
Game Show
1950

FrancisStream

Actor
Nurse Valerie Humpert
Movie
1949

Life With FatherStream

Actor
Cora Cartwright
Movie
1947
92%

The Perfect Marriage

Actor
Rosa
Movie
1946

Let's Face It

Actor
Cornelia Figeson
Movie
1943

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Actor
Miss Pepper
Movie
1942

The Bashful Bachelor

Actor
Geraldine
Movie
1942

So's Your Aunt Emma

Actor
Aunt Emma Bates
Movie
1942

Tish

Actor
Aggie Pilkington
Movie
1942

Meet the Mob

Actor
Aunt Emma Bates
Movie
1942

Miss Polly

Actor
Miss Pandora Polly
Movie
1941

Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Actor
Miss Emily Pepper
Movie
1941

Broadway Limited

Actor
Myra
Movie
1941

Niagara Falls

Actor
Emmy Sawyer
Movie
1941

Uncle Joe

Actor
Aunt Julia
Movie
1941

Weekend for Three

Actor
Anna
Movie
1941

It All Came True

Actor
Miss Flint
Movie
1940

No, No, Nanette

Actor
Pauline Hastings
Movie
1940

Eternally Yours

Actor
Mrs. Cary Bingham
Movie
1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

Actor
Mme. Moulin
Movie
1939

Mickey, the Kid

Actor
Lilly Handy
Movie
1939

Naughty, but Nice

Actor
Aunt Penelope Hardwick
Movie
1939

52nd Street

Actor
Letitia Rondell
Movie
1937

Forty Naughty Girls

Actor
Hildegarde Withers
Movie
1937

Sing Me a Love Song

Actor
Gwen Logan
Movie
1936

Mad Holiday

Actor
Mrs. Faye Kinney
Movie
1936

The Plot Thickens

Actor
Hildegarde Withers
Movie
1936

Ruggles of Red Gap

Actor
Prunella Judson
Movie
1935

Hot Tip

Actor
Belle McGill
Movie
1935

Affair of Susan

Actor
Susan Todd
Movie
1935

Going Highbrow

Actor
Mrs. Cora Upshaw
Movie
1935

Spring Tonic

Actor
Maggie Conklin
Movie
1935

Love Birds

Actor
Araminta Tootle
Movie
1934

The Gay Bride

Actor
Mirabelle
Movie
1934

Sing and Like It

Actor
Annie Snodgrass
Movie
1934

Their Big Moment

Actor
Tillie Whim
Movie
1934

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Actor
Miss Hazy
Movie
1934

Dames

Actor
Matilda Ounce Hemingway
Movie
1934

The Meanest Gal in Town

Actor
Tillie Prescott
Movie
1934

Meet the Baron

Actor
Zasu
Movie
1933

Professional Sweetheart

Actor
Elmerada de Leon
Movie
1933

Out All Night

Actor
Bunny
Movie
1933

Hello Sister

Actor
Millie
Movie
1933

Mr. Skitch

Actor
Mrs. Maddie Skitch
Movie
1933

Her First Mate

Actor
Movie
1933

Asleep in the Feet

Actor
Zasu
Movie
1933

Maids a la Mode

Actor
Miss Pitts
Movie
1933

Bargain of the Century

Actor
Zasu Pittts
Movie
1933

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Actor
Sybby 'Sib'
Movie
1933

Sealskins

Actor
Movie
1932

Make Me a Star

Actor
Mrs. Scudder
Movie
1932

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Actor
Gladys Fairweather
Movie
1932

Strictly Unreliable

Self
Movie
1932

Back Street

Actor
Mrs. Dole
Movie
1932

The Vanishing Frontier

Actor
Aunt Sylvia
Movie
1932

The Big Gamble

Actor
Nora
Movie
1932

Shopworn

Actor
Aunt Dot
Movie
1932

Blondie of the Follies

Actor
Gertie
Movie
1932

Once in a Lifetime

Actor
Miss Leyton
Movie
1932

Crooked Circle

Actor
Nora Rafferty
Movie
1932

Justice Rides Again

Actor
Temperance Worker
Movie
1932

The Hidden Corpse

Actor
Sybil Smith
Movie
1932

Red Noses

Actor
Miss Pitts
Movie
1932

Show Business

Actor
Zasu
Movie
1932

Westward Passage

Actor
Mrs. Truesdale
Movie
1932

River's End

Actor
Louise
Movie
1931

Let's Do Things

Actor
Movie
1931

Penrod and Sam

Actor
Mrs. Bassett
Movie
1931

Beyond Victory

Actor
"Mlle" Fritzi Mobley
Movie
1931

Bad Sister

Actor
Minnie
Movie
1931

A Woman of Experience

Actor
Katie
Movie
1931

The Guardsman

Actor
Liesl
Movie
1931

Catch as Catch Can

Actor
Zasu
Movie
1931

Finn and Hattie

Actor
Mrs. Haddock
Movie
1931

Seed

Actor
Jennie
Movie
1931

The Lottery Bride

Actor
Hilda
Movie
1930

Passion Flower

Actor
Mrs. Harney
Movie
1930

Monte Carlo

Actor
Bertha
Movie
1930

War Nurse

Actor
Cushie
Movie
1930

This Thing Called Love

Actor
Clara Bertrand
Movie
1929

Oh, Yeah?

Actor
The Elk
Movie
1929

The Locked Door

Actor
Telephone Girl
Movie
1929

The Squall

Actor
Lena
Movie
1929

13 Washington Square

Actor
Mathilde
Movie
1928

The Wedding March

Actor
Cecelia Schweisser
Movie
1928

Casey at the Bat

Actor
Camille Gibson
Movie
1927

Monte Carlo

Actor
Hope Durant
Movie
1926

Risky Business

Actor
Agnes Wheaton
Movie
1926

What Happened to Jones

Actor
Hilda
Movie
1926

Pretty Ladies

Actor
Maggie Keenan
Movie
1925

Wages for Wives

Actor
Luella Logan
Movie
1925

Greed

Actor
Trina
Movie
1924

A Society Sensation

Actor
Mary
Show
1918

A Society Sensation

Actor
Mary
Movie
1918

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Actor
Movie
1917