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Zasu attended Santa Cruz High, and her budding sense of humor soon upended her shyness with starring roles within the schools theater department. These plays are where such future benefactors as Fred Swanton and Josephine McCracken realized her skill and naturalness on the stage. Swanton, according to local historian and archivist Barbara Giffen, functioned as her first agent and aided in her transition from small-town hero into silent heroine. In my interview with local historian Randall Brown, he intimated that McCracken might have a had a bigger role in Pitts evolution than previously thought: “McCracken, using her connection with the movie company (California Motion Pictures), brought Zasu out to the set, and introduced her to Michelena and to the movie business. Shortly after that is when Zasu decided to go to Hollywood.” When Pitts graduated in 1914, “she staged a benefit performance at the local Opera House to finance her trip to Hollywood, and set off to join hundreds of other young hopefuls…

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Pitts quickly set about defining a career for herself, working in in o

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ZaSu Pitts

I’m currently researching figures from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and I’m amazed at how many talented, tragic, quirky and sometimes bizarre characters the era produced. Many of the names have, over time, drifted away from public consciousness. Take for example ZaSu Pitts…

ZaSu Pitts was an actress and comedienne whose career stretched from the Silent Movie Age right through to the birth of television in the 1940s and 50s, ending with her cameo role in the all-star comic extravaganza It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in 1963. She was known primarily for comedic and dramatic roles. However, she had an abiding love of mystery fiction and would have loved to have played more parts in this genre. She was disappointed to have narrowly missed out on roles in the screen adaptations of And Then There Were None (1945) and The Night of the Hunter (1955). As it turned out, her life was full of mystery and intrigue and she played a key role in some of the strangest chapters in Hollywood history.

ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas. ZaSu is a compou

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ZaSu Pitts Biography

ZaSu Pitts

actress
Born: 1/3/1894
Birthplace: Parsons, Kan.

The name “ZaSu”" was created because her two aunts, Eliza and Susan, each wanted the baby named after them. Pitts started working as an extra in movies, but was discovered by Mary Pickford, who is credited with giving Pitts small roles in The Little Princess and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm in 1917. Although she played dramatic roles in Greed (1925), The Wedding March (1928), and All Quiet on the Western Front, Pitts was usually cast in comic roles with the advent of talking films. Her trademark hand wringing and her high-pitched voice were the basis for Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons. From Monte Carlo (1930), to her last film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Pitts was a popular supporting actress in movies, the stage, and on TV. She wrote the book Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts.

Died: 1963

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