ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (actually: Eliza Susan Pitts, born January 3, 1894 in Parsons, Kansas, † June 7, 1963 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film actress.
Life and work
ZaSu Pitts grew up in California in Santa Cruz. Your first name unusual is composed of the last and first two letters of their names " Eliza " and " Susan ". Pitts was married from 1920 to 1932 with the actor Tom Gallery. They had a daughter, Ann Gallery, and an adopted son, Don Gallery ( born Marvin Carville La Marr ), whom she after the death of his mother, the silent film actress Barbara La Marr, assumptions.
ZaSu Pitts made her film debut in 1917. Her main roles include Trina, the wife of Erich von Stroheim's Greed McTeagues in ( 1924). Stroheim held Pitts for " his greatest dramatic actress " and cast her in The Wedding March (1928 ) and Walking Down Broadway ( 1932). With the beginning of the sound era, it moved because of their nasal, trembling voice on comic roles. Pitts has been involved in over 200 film productions in the 1950s and 1960s often to television productions.
She died at the age of 69 years to cancer. Her grave is in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remembers today the actress. In 1994, a designed by cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, U.S. postage stamp was issued with its likeness.
Filmography (selection)
Weblink
- ZaSu Pitts at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of ZaSu Pitts In: Virtual History
- Actor
- Silent film actresses
- Americans
- Born 1894
- Died in 1963
- Woman