Zasu Pitts
23 titles
Filmography
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Sing and Like It
(1934)Annie Snodgrass has an awful singing voice, but love-struck gangster Fenny is so entranced by her that he tries to turn her into a big star anyway.

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.

Miss Polly
(1941)Romance in the town of Midville is under the iron hand of the Civic League, whose moral purity campaign is so effective, there hasn't been a marriage in over two years.

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 β Main, Zasu Pitts and Aline MacMahon β 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.

Niagara Falls
(1941)Margie Blake, who wants to get married young and have two dozen kids, has a flat tire and traveling salesman Tom Wilson, who believes in "loving 'em and leaving 'em" stops to help.
The Bashful Bachelor
(1942)Comedy about small town life and romance!

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.

Dames
(1934)A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show in this amusing and entertaining musical starring Joan Blondell and Dick.

It All Came True
(1940)Killer Chips Maguire (Humphrey Bogart) is cooling his heels where the cops will never find him: a shabby boarding house run by two dear old ladies who cluck over Chips like devoted mother hens. When Chips finds out the biddies owe past taxes, he hits on a can't-miss scheme. He talks his fellow boarders, zanies all, into turning the house into a Gay '90s-themed nightclub! Fans who know the pre-stardom Bogart for his string of compelling performances as tightly coiled heavies in gangster sagas are in for a treat as Bogie unwinds with deadpan cracks in this appealing crime comedy. On hand to help make sure It All Came True are Ann Sheridan and character greats Zasu Pitts, Una O'Connor and Felix Bressart.

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.
Is My Face Red?
(1932)
No, No, Nanette
(1940)In a bid to save her flirty uncleβs marriage, Nanette steps into a love triangle of her own when enlisting help from a theatrical producer and artist.