Zasu Pitts
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

So's Your Aunt Emma!
(1942)A ditsy, old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and finds herself falsely accused of being the notorious murderer, Ma Parker.

The Crooked Circle
(1932)A group of amateur detectives set out to bust The Crooked Circle, a sinister criminal organization that has marked their leader for death.

Greed
(1924)The sudden fortune won from a lottery brings such destructive greed that it tears apart the lives of the three people involved.
Tish
(1942)Raw-boned, raspy-voiced, sixty-something Letitia "Tish" Carberry (Marjorie Main, who would find her greatest fame in the Ma Kettle film series) comes back to her hometown with a baby in her arms. "I'm a woman. It's a baby. It's mine!" she declares. Three splendid character actresses – Main, Zasu Pitts and Aline MacMahon – play three delightful spinsters in Tish, based on stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The old dears try their hands at matchmaking, get everything in a dreadful muddle, and end up caring for an orphaned baby they mistakenly believe is illegitimate. This warm comedy is laced with drama and punctuated with plenty of sight gags, including Main roller-skating in her Sunday best and the three stars tangling with a disgruntled bear on a camping trip.
Hello, Sister!
(1933)Boy and girl fall awkwardly in love after a casual meeting on broadway and their romance takes a bad turn when some malicious gossip reaches the boy. All ends well as he proves his love by saving her life. Adapted from daron powell's play "Walking down broadway".

Francis
(1950)A dimwitted lieutenant is labeled a lunatic when he insists a talking mule helped him on his military ventures.

Ruggles of Red Gap
(1935)Charles Laughton is stuffy British butler Marmaduke Ruggles, who finds his life takes a hilarious turn for the better when he is traded to a rowdy American and taken to the Wild West.

Oh, Yeah!
(1929)Vagabonds hitch a freight to a railroad town, battling yard bulls and rival drifters, while finding romance with local waitresses.

Life with Father
(1947)In 1880s New York, a curmudgeonly stockbroker demands the strictest order in his household. But his wife and four sons have demands of their own.

Nurse Edith Cavell
(1939)Anna Neagle stars in this biopic of English nurse and First World War martyr Edith Cavell. Matron of a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI, Cavell makes no distinction between the civilian casualties, Allied troops and German soldiers brought in for treatment. However, her sympathy for the plight of the Belgians leads her to become involved with a secret underground resistance movement that helps refugees and escaped prisoners of war to cross the border into neutral Holland. When the German high command becomes suspicious of her activities, Cavell is branded a spy and faces execution by firing squad.

Eternally Yours
(1939)A clergyman's daughter is swept off her feet by a debonair magician. But when the magic wears off, she attempts a disappearing act of her own.

Broadway Limited
(1941)A borrowed baby used for a publicity stunt aboard a long-distance train creates a world of trouble for a high-strung film director and his leading lady.

The Thrill of It All
(1963)Blondie of the Follies
(1932)Two girls, friends from the New York slums, take very different paths in their quest for fame and fortune in Blondie of the Follies. Ziegfeld Follies chorines Blondie (Marion Davies) and Lottie (Billie Dove) both fall in love with wealthy playboy Larry Belmont (Robert Montgomery). While Blondie retains her virtue and works diligently to advance her career, Lottie uses other charms to woo Belmont and to move up in show business. But when Blondie seems to be succeeding both on stage and in love, Lottie resorts to underhanded tricks during a performance to thwart her.
Is My Face Red?
(1932)
No, No, Nanette
(1940)In a bid to save her flirty uncle’s marriage, Nanette steps into a love triangle of her own when enlisting help from a theatrical producer and artist.

Sin Takes a Holiday
(1930)To avoid dealing with the marital pursuits of his girlfriends, a womanizing divorce lawyer offers to pay his secretary to marry him—in name only.

Denver and Rio Grande
(1952)The film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande railway, which was chartered in 1870.

Breakfast in Hollywood
(1946)The host of a radio program plays Cupid to a discharged serviceman and a young woman with a far-off fiancé who meet at his Hollywood restaurant.