Zasu Pitts (I) (1894–1963)

Actress | Soundtrack

Classic comedienne Zasu Pitts, of the timid, forlorn blue eyes and trademark woebegone vocal ...

Born: January 3, 1894
Died: June 7, 1963 (age 69)

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Filmography

Known For

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Gertie - Switchboard Operator (1963)
Greed Trina (1924)
No, No, Nanette Pauline Hastings (1940)
Known For

Ruggles of Red Gap Prunella Judson (1935)
Actress

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Gertie - Switchboard Operator (1963)
Burke's Law Mrs. Bowie (1963)
The Thrill of It All Olivia (1963)
Perry Mason Daphne Whilom (1962)
Teenage Millionaire Aunt Theodora (1961)
Guestward Ho! (1961)
The Jim Backus Show Minnie Morgan (1961)
The Dennis O'Keefe Show Loretta Kimball (1960)
The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna Elvira Nugent (1956-1960)
This Could Be the Night Mrs. Katie Shea - Landlady (1957)
Private Secretary Aunt Martha (1957)
The Red Skelton Hour Ma Raspin (1956)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour Miss Appleton (1956)
Screen Directors Playhouse Selma (1955)
The Best of Broadway Miss Preen (1954)
Kraft Theatre (1954)
Francis Joins the WACS Lt. Valerie Humpert (1954)
General Electric Theater Aunt Laura (1954)
Denver & Rio Grande Jane Dwyer (1952)
Francis Nurse Valerie Humpert (1950)
The Philco Television Playhouse Belinda Pryde (1949)
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948)
Life with Father Cora (1947)
Dear Miss Gloria Guest star (1946)
The Perfect Marriage Rosa (1946)
Breakfast in Hollywood Elvira Spriggens (1946)
Let's Face It Cornelia Figeson (1943)
Tish Aggie Pilkington (1942)
So's Your Aunt Emma! Aunt Emma Bates (1942)
The Bashful Bachelor Geraldine (1942)
Mexican Spitfire at Sea Miss Pepper (1942)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby Miss Emily Pepper (1941)
Miss Polly Miss Pandora Polly (1941)
Weekend for Three Anna (1941)
Uncle Joe Julia Jordan (1941)
Niagara Falls Emmy Sawyer (1941)
Broadway Limited Myra Pottle (1941)
No, No, Nanette Pauline Hastings (1940)
It All Came True Miss Flint (1940)
Eternally Yours Mrs. Cary Bingham (1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell Mme. Moulin (1939)
Mickey the Kid Lilly Handy (1939)
Naughty But Nice Aunt Penelope Hardwick (1939)
The Lady's from Kentucky Dulcey Lee (1939)
52nd Street Letitia Rondell (1937)
Forty Naughty Girls Hildegarde Withers (1937)
Merry Comes to Town Winnie Oatfield (1937)
Wanted! Winnie Oatfield (1937)
Sing Me a Love Song Gwen Logan (1936)
The Plot Thickens Hildegarde Withers (1936)
Mad Holiday Mrs. Kinney (1936)
13 Hours by Air Miss Harkins (1936)
The Affair of Susan Susan Todd (1935)
Hot Tip Belle McGill (1935)
She Gets Her Man Esmeralda (1935)
Going Highbrow Mrs. Upshaw (1935)
Spring Tonic Maggie Conklin (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap Prunella Judson (1935)
The Gay Bride Mirabelle (1934)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Miss Hazy (1934)
Their Big Moment Tillie Whim (1934)
Dames Mathilda Hemingway (1934)
Private Scandal Miss Coates (1934)
Sing and Like It Annie Snodgrass (1934)
Love Birds Araminta Tootle (1934)
Three on a Honeymoon Alice Mudge (1934)
Two Alone Esthey Roberts (1934)
The Meanest Gal in Town Tillie Prescott (1934)
Mr. Skitch Mrs. Maddie Skitch (1933)
Meet the Baron Zasu - Upstairs Maid (1933)
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men Sybby 'Sib' (1933)
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! Connie Clark (1933)
Her First Mate Mary Horner (1933)
Professional Sweetheart Elmerada de Leon (1933)
One Track Minds (1933)
Hello, Sister! Millie (1933)
Out All Night Bonny (1933)
The Bargain of the Century Zasu Pittts (1933)
Maids a la Mode Miss Pitts (1933)
Asleep in the Feet Zasu Pitts (1933)
They Just Had to Get Married Molly Hull (1932)
Sneak Easily Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury (1932)
Madison Square Garden Florrie (1932)
The Soilers Zasu (1932)
Once in a Lifetime Miss Leighton (1932)
The Crooked Circle Nora Rafferty (1932)
Alum and Eve Zasu (1932)
Blondie of the Follies Gertie (1932)
Show Business Zasu Pitts (1932)
Back Street Mrs. Dole (1932)
The Vanishing Frontier Aunt Sylvia (1932)
Roar of the Dragon Gabby Woman (1932)
Make Me a Star Mrs. Scudder (1932)
Is My Face Red? Morning Gazette Telephone Operator (1932)
The Old Bull Zasu (1932)
Westward Passage Mrs. Truesdale (1932)
Strangers of the Evening Sybil Smith (1932)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware Gladys Fairweather (1932)
Strictly Unreliable Pitts (1932)
Destry Rides Again Temperance Worker (1932)
Shopworn Dot (1932)
Red Noses Miss Pitts (1932)
Steady Company Dot (1932)
Sealskins Zasu Pitts (1932)
Broken Lullaby Anna, Holderlin's Maid (1932)
The Unexpected Father Polly Perkins (1932)
On the Loose Zasu Pitts (1931)
The Secret Witness Bella (1931)
War Mamas Zasu (1931)
The Guardsman Liesl (1931)
The Pajama Party Zasu Pitts (1931)
Penrod and Sam Mrs. Bassett (1931)
The Big Gamble Nora Dugan (1931)
Catch-As Catch-Can Zasu (1931)
Their Mad Moment Miss Dibbs (1931)
A Woman of Experience Katie (1931)
Let's Do Things Zasu Pitts (1931)
Seed Jennie (1931)
Beyond Victory 'Mlle' Fritzi Mobley (1931)
Bad Sister Minnie (1931)
Finn and Hattie Mrs. Haddock (1931)
Free Love Ada, the Maid (1930)
Passion Flower Mrs. Harney (1930)
The Honeymoon Caecilia (1930)
Sin Takes a Holiday Annie (1930)
River's End Louise (1930)
War Nurse Cushie (1930)
The Lottery Bride Hilda (1930)
Monte Carlo Bertha (1930)
The Squealer Bella (1930)
Little Accident Monica (1930)
The Devil's Holiday Ethel (1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front Frau Bäumer - Silent Version Trailer only (1930)
Honey Mayme (1930)
No, No, Nanette Pauline Hastings (1930)
This Thing Called Love Clara Bertrand (1929)
The Locked Door Telephone Girl (1929)
Paris Harriet (1929)
Oh, Yeah? The Elk (1929)
Her Private Life Timmins (1929)
The Argyle Case Mrs. Wyatt (1929)
Twin Beds Tillie (1929)
The Squall Lena (1929)
The Dummy Rose Gleason (1929)
Sunlight The Younger Sister (1928)
Sins of the Fathers Mother Spengler (1928)
The Wedding March Cecelia Schweisser (1928)
Buck Privates Hulda (1928)
13 Washington Square Mathilde (1928)
Wife Savers Germaine (1928)
Casey at the Bat Camille Gibson (1927)
Her Big Night Gladys Smith (1926)
Risky Business Agnes Wheaton (1926)
Sunny Side Up Evelyn (1926)
Early to Wed Mrs. Dugan (1926)
Monte Carlo Hope Durant (1926)
What Happened to Jones? Hilda (1926)
Mannequin Annie Pogani (1926)
The Great Love Nancy (1925)
Wages for Wives Luella Logan (1925)
Lazybones Ruth Fanning (1925)
Thunder Mountain Mandy Coulter (1925)
The Business of Love Miss Wright (1925)
A Woman's Faith Blanche Odile (1925)
Pretty Ladies Maggie Keenan (1925)
Old Shoes (1925)
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Judy (1925)
The Great Divide Polly Jordan (1925)
Sunlight of Paris (1924)
Greed Trina (1924)
Secrets of the Night Celia Stebbins (1924)
The Fast Set Mona (1924)
Wine of Youth Lucy (1924)
Legend of Hollywood Mary Brown (1924)
Changing Husbands Delia (1924)
Triumph A Factory Girl (1924)
The Goldfish Amelia Pugsley (1924)
Daughters of Today Lorena (1924)
West of the Water Tower Dessie Arnhalt (1923)
Tea: With a Kick! 'Brainy' Jones (1923)
Hollywood Zasu Pitts (1923)
Three Wise Fools Mickey (1923)
Mary of the Movies Zasu Pitts (1923)
The Girl Who Came Back Anastasia Muldoon (1923)
Souls for Sale Zasu Pitts (1923)
Poor Men's Wives Apple Annie (1923)
A Daughter of Luxury Mary Cosgrove (1922)
Youth to Youth Emily (1922)
For the Defense Jennie Dunn (1922)
Is Matrimony a Failure? Mrs. Wilbur (1922)
Patsy Patsy (1921)
Heart of Twenty Katie Abbott (1920)
Bright Skies Sally (1920)
Seeing It Through Betty Lawrence (1920)
Poor Relations Daisy Perkins (1919)
The Other Half Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid (1919)
Better Times Nancy Scroggs (1919)
Men, Women, and Money Katie Jones (1919)
As the Sun Went Down Sal Sue (1919)
A Lady's Name Emily (1918)
The Greatest Thing in Life Undetermined Secondary Role (1918)
The Talk of the Town (1918)
A Society Sensation Mary (1918)
The Pie Eyed Piper The Fair Ellen (1918)
How Could You, Jean? Oscar's Sweetheart (1918)
Who's Your Wife? Bess (1918)
A Modern Musketeer A Kansas Belle (1917)
A Little Princess Becky (1917)
'49-'17 Party Guest (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Undetermined Role (1917)
Why They Left Home Mary Mandrake (1917)
Behind the Map The Schoolteacher (1917)
O-My the Tent Mover Saharah Sarah (1917)
The Battling Bellboy The Chambermaid (1917)
Canning the Cannibal King Priscilla Potts - the Missionary (1917)
A Match in Quarantine (1917)
He Had 'em Buffaloed Hepsabiah Hardlot (1917)
Discords in 'A' Flat (1917)
His Fatal Beauty Perscilla (1917)
A Desert Dilemma (1917)
Tillie of the Nine Lives (1917)
Actress

Uneasy Money Suza - the Editor's Assistant (1917)
Soundtrack

Sing Me a Love Song (1936)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Sing and Like It (1934)
Soundtrack

Honey (1930)
Archive footage

Hollywood Maudits - Les Rapaces (2020)
The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019)
The Green Fog (2017)
America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014)
Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014)
The Naked Archaeologist (2008)
Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994)
Hollywood (1980)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952)
Archive footage

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party (1948)
And She Learned About Dames (1934)

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Awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.

Another 1 win.

Did You Know

Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney...