
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).

Hollywood

Free Love

Perry Mason

Broken Lullaby

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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

The Thrill of It All

The Wedding March

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Once in a Lifetime

Two Alone

Red Noses

The Pajama Party

What's My Line?

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On the Loose

Niagara Falls

Life with Father

The Big Parade of Comedy

Naughty But Nice

Lazybones

Shopworn

Monte Carlo

So's Your Aunt Emma!

The Meanest Gal in Town

Risky Business

Disneyland '59

Screen Director's Playhouse

Dames

Nurse Edith Cavell

General Electric Theater

Alum and Eve

The Philco Television Playhouse

River's End

The Devil's Holiday

Madison Square Garden

Souls for Sale

The Soilers

1925 Studio Tour

Back Street

Blondie of the Follies

The Squealer

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mad Holiday

Going Highbrow

Seed

Uncle Joe

Mr. Skitch

Roar of the Dragon

Show Business

Casey at the Bat

Penrod and Sam

Out All Night

No, No, Nanette

Love Birds

Secrets of the Night

No, No, Nanette

And She Learned About Dames

Sins of the Fathers

Burke's Law

The Locked Door

It All Came True

This Could Be the Night

What Happened to Jones?

The Plot Thickens

Westward Passage

Hello, Sister!

A Society Sensation

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Francis Joins the WACS

'49–'17

The Gay Bride

Eternally Yours

Weekend for Three

Tish

Francis

Make Me a Star

Denver and Rio Grande

Sealskins

Strictly Unreliable

The Bad Sister

Sin Takes a Holiday

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Forty Naughty Girls

Spring Tonic

Finn and Hattie

13 Washington Square

A Little Princess

A Woman of Experience

A Modern Musketeer

Passion Flower

The Guardsman

Professional Sweetheart

The Other Half

Breakfast in Hollywood

Their Mad Moment

Hot Tip

Honey

Private Secretary

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

The Crooked Circle

Strangers of the Evening

Is My Face Red?

The Lottery Bride

Pretty Ladies

Broadway Limited

13 Hours by Air

War Nurse

The Bashful Bachelor

Let's Face It

Teenage Millionaire

Miss Polly

Oh, Yeah!

Meet the Baron

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Sing and Like It

The Perfect Marriage

Guestward, Ho!

Their Big Moment

Destry Rides Again

The Squall

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

The Old Bull

The Secret Witness

The Bargain of the Century

The Talk of the Town

Asleep in the Feet

Catch-As Catch-Can

Maids a la Mode

Her Private Life

Thunder Mountain

52nd Street

The Honeymoon

The Dummy

Wife Savers

Dear Miss Gloria

Changing Husbands

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Her First Mate

The Fast Set

Beyond Victory

Steady Company

The Affair of Susan

Sing Me a Love Song

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

The Vanishing Frontier

How Could You, Jean?

Three Wise Fools

The Great Love

War Mamas

Sneak Easily

One Track Minds

Let's Do Things

She Gets Her Man

Monte Carlo

Mickey the Kid

Private Scandal

The Argyle Case

A Lady's Name

Twin Beds

She Whoops To Conquer

Three on a Honeymoon

Mannequin

Little Accident

The Lady's from Kentucky

The Great Divide

Paris

Buck Privates

For the Defense

They Just Had to Get Married

This Thing Called Love

Wanted!

Mary of the Movies

Better Times

Tea- With a Kick!

Poor Men's Wives

Sunny Side Up

The Goldfish

The Unexpected Father

Lum and Abner

Early to Wed

Wages for Wives

Tillie of the Nine Lives

West of the Water Tower

Men, Women, and Money

Her Big Night

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

Poor Relations

As the Sun Went Down

Daughters of Today

Is Matrimony a Failure?

Youth to Youth

The Girl Who Came Back