PRETTY LADIES (1925)
There are variant spellings of her name in the credits of her roughly 219 appearances—sometimes she was billed as “Zasu Pitts” or occasionally “Zazu Pitts” and then often the correct “ZaSu Pitts.” That uncommon first name was the result of a compromise at birth: Pitts’s mother had sisters…
Happy Birthday ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 - June 7, 1963)
“I adored ZaSu Pitts. Everyone did. She had so many friends - close friends like Thelma Todd, Frances Marion, Barbara La Marr, and, of course, my mother, Leatrice Joy…ZaSu was a brilliant, brilliant dramatic actress in silent film. Did you ever see her incredible performance in Erich von Stroheim’s Greed? She was remarkable. Her face was so mobile and expressive. Those unforgettable eyes of hers…”
~Leatrice Joy Fountain, daughter of silent screen stars Leatrice Joy and John Gilbert
(excerpt from ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career)
She’s my favorite, the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
