
Zasu Pitts
Oyuncu · 1894 – 1963 · Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA
Zasu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) 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).
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Film7.0MaceraKomediBirbirinden değerli sanatçıların rol aldığı filmde, virajlı bir yolda çok süratli giden bir araba uçuruma yuvarlanır. Kazayı gören araçların sürücüleri, ağır yaralanan kazazedeye yardım için yanına gittiklerinde ölmek üzere olan adam onlara W'nun altındaki hazineden söz eder ve ölür. Hepsi birbirinden uyanık olan kazanın tanıkları, birden her şeyi unutup hazinenin peşine düşerler... Aralarında zamana karşı müthiş bir yarış başlamıştır... W'nun ne olduğunu bulan, paraya da konacaktır.
Film7.3DramSuçWhen housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
Greed
1924 · 207 votes
Film7.1KomediRomantikA housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
The Thrill of It All
1963 · 89 votes
Film5.4DramA bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
Passion Flower
1930 · 11 votes
Film6.1KomediDramTo earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
This Could Be the Night
1957 · 14 votes
Film7.2KomediBelgeselFilm clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · 6 votes
Film5.6WesternJim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · 16 votes
Film6.3DramKomediNew York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · 11 votes
Film6.3RomantikDramA struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Westward Passage
1932 · 6 votes
Film6.7KomediAileA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Life with Father
1947 · 73 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikWhile Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.
Hello, Sister!
1933 · 15 votes
Film7.3RomantikKomediAfter losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Mr. Skitch
1933 · 3 votes
Film7.1KomediIn this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · 86 votes
Film5.8KomediAileDuring World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
Francis
1950 · 28 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikRadio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Professional Sweetheart
1933 · 5 votes
Film5.8KomediSuçAfter crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
It All Came True
1940 · 22 votes
Film7.0MüzikStudents at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
And She Learned About Dames
1934 · 3 votes
Film6.4RomantikKomediA grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Make Me a Star
1932 · 5 votes
Film6.7DramRomantikA waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Shopworn
1932 · 14 votes
Film6.7KomediSuçA dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
So's Your Aunt Emma!
1942 · 13 votes
Film7.8KomediRomantikTough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933 · 5 votes
Film9.0KomediMüzikA young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Sing Me a Love Song
1936 · 1 votes
Film5.6RomantikKomediDowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 · 24 votes
Film6.5RomantikMüzikA reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Dames
1934 · 44 votes
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Dizi7.7GizemDramThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 140 votes
Dizi7.0AileKomediFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
What's My Line?
1950 · 29 votes
Dizi6.6DramThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · 8 votes
Dizi6.2DramBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Burke's Law
1963 · 12 votes
Dizi6.0DramThe 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · 10 votes
Dizi6.7KomediThe Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
The Gale Storm Show
1956 · 3 votes
Dizi7.0KomediDramPresented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · 5 votes
Dizi6.5KomediGuestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961 television season, based on the 1956 book of the same title by Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame.
Guestward, Ho!
1960 · 2 votes
Dizi6.0KomediPrivate Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter.
Private Secretary
1953 · 2 votes
Dizi7.5KomediThe Dennis O'Keefe Show is a 1959-1960 sitcom produced by United Artists Television which aired on CBS for sponsor General Motors' Oldsmobile division. It was not a ratings success during its original run, and was largely forgotten until a "Best Of" DVD release by Alpha Video during 2004. Certain episodes of the show can also be seen at the Internet Archive. It appears the series has entered the public domain.
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1959 · 2 votes
Dizi6.8KomediDramGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6 votes