ZaSu Pitts
The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
The Bashful Bachelor is a 1942 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair. It is the second of seven films based on the Lum and Abner radio series created by and starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Tom Mix
So's Your Aunt Emma (1942)
So's Your Aunt Emma is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring ZaSu Pitts and Roger Pryor. The film is also known as Meet the Mob.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Wallace Beery•Lucien Littlefield
Tish (1942)
Tish is a 1942 comedy-drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Marjorie Main, ZaSu Pitts, and Aline MacMahon.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•W. C. Fields•Slim Summerville
Broadway Limited (1941)
Broadway Limited is a 1941 American film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe and ZaSu Pitts. The film takes its name from the Broadway Limited train that the Pennsylvania Railroad used to run between New York and Chicago.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•ZaSu Pitts•Noah Beery
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Jerome Cady. It is the sequel to the 1940 film Mexican Spitfire Out West. The film stars Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Elisabeth Risdon and Fritz Feld. The film was released on November 28, 1941,...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•David Butler•Ben Lyon
Miss Polly (1941)
Miss Polly is a 1941 American comedy film produced as part of Hal Roach's Streamliners series. It was directed by Fred Guiol, written by Eugene Conrad and Edward E. Seabrook and stars ZaSu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Kathleen Howard, Brenda Forbes, Elyse Knox and Richard Clayton. The film was released on November 14, 1941 by United Artists.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Madge Bellamy
Niagara Falls (1941)
Niagara Falls is a 1941 American comedy of errors film directed by Gordon Douglas that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Edward Everett Horton•Roland Young
Uncle Joe (1941)
Uncle Joe is a 1941 American film directed by Howard M. Railsback and Raymond E. Swartley.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Charles Farrell
52nd Street (1937)
52nd Street is a 1937 American drama film directed by Harold Young and starring Ian Hunter. Leo Carrillo and Pat Paterson. An independent production by Walter Wanger it was distributed by United Artists. It portrays the rise of 52nd Street in Manhattan as a major hub of nightclubs in the 1930s.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•El Brendel•Lupe Vélez
Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
Forty Naughty Girls is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by John Grey. The film stars James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley and Joan Woodbury. It is the sixth and final entry in RKO Pictures' series of Hildegarde Withers films. This film was the sixth film in the Hildegarde Withers-Oscar Piper se...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Charles Laughton
Mad Holiday (1936)
Mad Holiday is a 1936 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy, Edmund Gwenn and Edgar Kennedy. The film was released on November 13, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Stuart Erwin•Brenda Forbes•Norman Foster
The Plot Thickens (1936)
The Plot Thickens is a 1936 mystery film directed by William Sistrom, starring James Gleason and ZaSu Pitts, who plays the schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers from Stuart Palmer's stories. Gleason reprised his role as Hildegarde's friendly nemesis, Inspector Oscar Piper, from RKO Radio Pictures' previous Hildegarde Withers films.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Charles Laughton•Jack Buchanan
Sing Me a Love Song (1936)
Sing Me a Love Song is a 1936 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and written by Sig Herzig and Jerry Wald. The film stars James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, ZaSu Pitts, Allen Jenkins and Nat Pendleton. The Warner Bros. film premiered in New York City on Christmas Day 1936 and went into general release on January 9, 1937.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Wynne Gibson•Phillips Holmes
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
13 Hours by Air is a 1936 drama film made by Paramount Pictures and directed by Mitchell Leisen. The film stars Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Kenyon Nicholson and Bogart Rogers, based on story Wild Wings by Rogers and Frank Mitchell Dazey. 13 Hours by Air was also the forerunner of the disaster film, a genre featuri...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Ginger Rogers•Regis Toomey
The Affair of Susan (1935)
The Affair of Susan is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell and Walter Catlett. It is a remake of the 1928 silent film Lonesome. Two lonely people meet at an amusement park on Coney Island.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Dorothy Peterson
Going Highbrow (1935)
Going Highbrow is a 1935 American comedy-musical film directed by Robert Florey. Guy Kibbee and ZaSu Pitts play a newly rich couple, so eager to buy their way into society they hire a waitress to pose as their daughter.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Lum and Abner•James Dunn
Hot Tip (1935)
Hot Tip is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Ray McCarey and James Gleason from a screenplay by Hugh Cummings, Olive Cooper, and Louis Stevens, based on William Slavens McNutt's short story, "Leander Clicks", which had been published in the August 1928 edition of Red Book Magazine. Gleason also starred in the film, along with ZaSu Pitts, Marg...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Charles Laughton•Tom Brown•Mickey Rooney
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 American comedy western film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the best-selling 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted by Humphrey Pearson, with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Harlan Thompso...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Patricia Ellis•Ward Bond
She Gets Her Man (1935)
She Gets Her Man is a 1935 American comedy film directed by William Nigh and written by Aben Kandel. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell, Helen Twelvetrees, Lucien Littlefield, Edward Brophy, and Warren Hymer. It was released on August 5, 1935, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Verree Teasdale•Brenda Forbes•Pert Kelton
Love Birds (1934)
Love Birds is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Doris Anderson, Henry Myers, and Tom Reed. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton, Emmett Vogan, and Dorothy Christy. The film was released on May 4, 1934, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Fred MacMurray
The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)
The Meanest Gal in Town is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy, directed by Russell Mack from a screenplay written by Richard Schayer, Russell Mack, and H. W. Hanemann, and starring Zasu Pitts, El Brendel, Pert Kelton, and James Gleason.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Margaret Callahan
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy-drama film, directed by Norman Taurog, and is based on the 1904 Broadway play by Anne Crawford Flexner, which itself is taken from the novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord, and is one of only two films she appeared in. ZaSu Pitts and ...
Starring: James Melton•Brenda Forbes•Louise Latimer
Private Scandal (1934)
Private Scandal is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster and Harold Waldridge. The film was released on May 11, 1934, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Douglas Fowley
Sing and Like It (1934)
Sing and Like It is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter from a screenplay by Marion Dix and Laird Doyle, based on the unpublished short story So You Won't Sing, Eh? by Aben Kandel. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Pert Kelton, and Edward Everett Horton.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Lum and Abner•Marjorie Woodworth
Their Big Moment (1934)
Their Big Moment is a 1934 American mystery film directed by James Cruze, from a screenplay by Arthur Caesar and Marion Dix. The film starred ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville. It is based on the 1933 West End play Afterwards by Walter C. Hackett which had run for more than two hundred performances in London. While most of the Pitts-Summerville teami...
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and written by Humphrey Pearson and Edward Kaufman. The film stars Charles Farrell, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, ZaSu Pitts, Betty Furness and Blanche Friderici. The film was released on November 3, 1933, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Mary Pickford•Tom Mix
Hello, Sister! (1933)
Hello, Sister! is a 1933 American pre-Code drama-romance film produced by Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, and Alfred L. Werker, although no directorial credit is given. The film is a re-edited version of von Stroheim's now-lost film Walking Down Broadway.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Viola Dana
Her First Mate (1933)
Her First Mate is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William Wyler and written by Clarence Marks, Earle Snell and H. M. Walker, who adapted it from the play written by Frank Craven, John Golden and Daniel Jarrett. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Una Merkel, Warren Hymer, Berton Churchill and George F. Marion. The film was...
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Stuart Erwin
Love, Honor, and Oh Baby! (1933)
Love, Honor, and Oh Baby! is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film, starring Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, and George Barbier. The 1940 Universal Pictures film with the same title is not a remake. Adapted from the stage play, "Oh, Promise Me". Pitts plays a secretary that plots with her ambulance chasing lawyer, Slim, to compromise her employer for ...
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Norman Kerry
Out All Night (1933)
Out All Night is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and written by William Anthony McGuire. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Laura Hope Crews, Shirley Grey, Alexander Carr and Rollo Lloyd. The film was released April 8, 1933, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Professional Sweetheart is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy directed by William A. Seiter from a screenplay by Maurine Watkins. It stars Ginger Rogers in her first film for RKO Radio Pictures, with Norman Foster, ZaSu Pitts and Frank McHugh. The film is a satire of the radio industry.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Noah Beery•Conrad Nagel
Back Street (1932)
Back Street is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Irene Dunne and John Boles. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Fannie Hurst, it tells the story of a woman who spends her life as the secret mistress of a wealthy married man. The devotion and love of the woman to the married man determines th...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•David Butler•Ben Lyon
The Crooked Circle (1932)
The Crooked Circle is a 1932 American pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Buck Jones•Charles Laughton
Destry Rides Again (1932)
Destry Rides Again is a 1932 American pre-Code Western movie starring Tom Mix and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison. The film was based on a novel by Max Brand. The supporting cast includes Claudia Dell, ZaSu Pitts, and Francis Ford.
Starring: Gibson Gowland•Brenda Forbes•Madge Bellamy
Make Me a Star (1932)
Make Me a Star is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin and ZaSu Pitts. The film is a remake of the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies, based upon the 1922 novel of that name, and the 1923 play adapted from the novel by George S. Kaufman, and Marc Connelly. It was rema...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Robert Agnew•John Boles
Shopworn (1932)
Shopworn is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey. Written by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin, based on a story by Sarah Y. Mason, the film is about a poor hardworking waitress who meets and falls in love with a wealthy college student. His mother objects to the union and f...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Charles Farrell•Sally Blane
Strangers of the Evening (1932)
Strangers of the Evening is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film produced by Samuel Bischoff for Tiffany Pictures, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and starring ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield and Eugene Pallette. Based on Tiffany Thayer's novel The Illustrious Corpse, the screenplay was adapted by Stuart Anthony and Warren Duff.
Starring: Verree Teasdale•Brenda Forbes
They Just Had to Get Married (1932)
They Just Had to Get Married is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, and Verree Teasdale.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes•Patricia Ellis
The Unexpected Father (1932)
The Unexpected Father is a 1932 American comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts, and Cora Sue Collins.
Starring: Gale Storm•Brenda Forbes
Finn and Hattie (1931)
Finn and Hattie is a 1931 American comedic pre-Code film directed by Norman Taurog, starring Leon Errol, Mitzi Green and ZaSu Pitts.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•David Butler
The Secret Witness (1931)
The Secret Witness is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film, directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Una Merkel, William Collier Jr. and Zasu Pitts. It is an adaptation of the novel Murder in the Gilded Cage by Sam Spewack. The screenplay concerns a man who is found murdered in his luxury apartment. His neighbors believe that the wrong man has bee...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Stuart Erwin
Monte Carlo (1930)
Monte Carlo is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It co-stars Jack Buchanan as a French Count Rudolph Falliere masquerading as a hairdresser and Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is notable for introducing the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and is first perfor...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Barbara Stanwyck•Norman Foster
Wife Savers (1928)
Wife Savers is a lost 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Ralph Ceder and written by Thomas J. Geraghty, Grover Jones, George Marion Jr. and Arthur Wimperis. The film stars Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, ZaSu Pitts, Sally Blane, Tom Kennedy and Ford Sterling. The film was released on January 7, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Jeanette MacDonald•Brenda Forbes•Jack Buchanan
The Great Love (1925)
, The Great Love is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon his own story, scripted by Benjamin Glazer. The film stars Robert Agnew, Viola Dana, and ZaSu Pitts.
Starring: Claudia Dell•Brenda Forbes•Wynne Gibson
Lazybones (1925)
Lazybones is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film produced and directed by Frank Borzage and starring Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, and Zasu Pitts. It opened in New York City on September 22, 1924, and received wider distribution by Fox Film Corporation during 1925.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Una Merkel•Ginger Rogers
Old Shoes (1925)
Old Shoes is a 1925 American silent indepenent drama film directed by Frederick Stowers and starring Noah Beery, Viora Daniel and Zasu Pitts. A melodrama it sees a widowed woman marry her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Regis Toomey
Pretty Ladies (1925)
Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D. G. Miller and featured intertitles by Joseph Farnham. Pretty Ladies originally featured musical color sequences,...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Irene Dunne
Greed (1924)
Greed is a 1924 American silent psychological drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague; ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife; and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and eventual enemy Marcus Schouler. The film tells the story of McTeague, a ...
Starring: Brenda Forbes•Joan Blondell
Better Times (1919)
Better Times is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by King Vidor. A print survives in the EYE Institut Filmmuseum Nederlands. Produced by the Brentwood Corporation, the film stars the then unknown Zasu Pitts in an early screen appearance.
Starring: Brenda Forbes•James Dunn
The Little Princess (1917)
The Little Princess is a 1917 American silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed screenwriter Frances Marion.
Starring: Verree Teasdale•Norman Kerry•Brenda Forbes