Zasu may refer to:
* Zasu, Master of the seat, head of the temple (abbot) in Sōkan, the Japanese
system of rankings for Buddhist clergy
* Zasu (horse)
o 1974 winner of the Champagne Stakes (Australia), a Group 1 horse race in
Australia for two-year-old thoroughbreds
o 1975 winner of the Queensland Oaks, a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse
race for 3 year old fillies at set weights
* Zasu, game developed by defunct company Enix
* Zasu Knight, actress in Buffy the Vampire Slayer adult parodies
* ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, formed in San Francisco by Stephen Ashman,
recorded several LPs from 1984-1987 and continue to be active
* Zasu River or Yazoo River, a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi
The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to
the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is
unclear. One long held belief is that it means "river of death".
The river is 188 miles long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie
River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood. The river parallels the Mississippi
River for some distance before joining it north of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Natural levees which flank the Mississippi prevent the Yazoo from joining it
before Vicksburg. As a result of this, a "yazoo stream" is a hydrologic term
used to describe any river in this situation.
The surrounding area was know as the Yazoo lands which name was lent to the
Yazoo land scandal.
The river was of major importance during the American Civil War. The first
electrically detonated underwater mine was used on the river in 1862 near
Vicksburg to sink the Union ironclad USS Cairo. The last section of the Cairo
was raised on December 12, 1964. It has been restored and is now on permanent
display to the public at the Vicksburg National Military Park.
There are 29 sunken ships from the American Civil War beneath the waters of the
river.
Variant names of the Yazoo River include Zasu River, Yazous River, Yahshoo
River, Riviere des Yasoux, and Fiume dei Yasous.
The Champagne Stakes is a Group 1 horse race in Australia for two-year-old
thoroughbreds at set weights run at Randwick Racecourse over a distance of 1,600
metres (approximately 1 mile) during the Sydney Autumn Carnival. Prize money in
2006 was AUD$475,000.
The Winners
* 2007 - Meurice
* 2006 - Mentality
* 2005 - Carry On Cutie
* 2004 - Dance Hero
* 2003 - Hasna
* 2002 - Victory Vein
* 2001 - Viscount
* 2000 - Assertive Lad
* 1999 - Quick Star
* 1998 - Dracula
* 1997 - Encounter
* 1996 - Intergaze
* 1995 - Isolda
* 1994 - Euphoria
* 1993 - March Hare
* 1992 - Burst
* 1991 - Tierce
* 1990 - Triscay
* 1989 - Select Prince
* 1988 - Full And By
* 1987 - Sky Chase
* 1986 - Bounding Away
* 1985 - True Version
* 1984 - Red Anchor
* 1983 - Lady Eclipse
* 1982 - I Like Diamonds
* 1981 - Rose Of Kingston
* 1980 - Palaban
* 1979 - Charity
* 1978 - Parade
* 1977 - Luskin Star
* 1976 - Vivarchi
* 1975 - Rosie Heir
* 1974 - Zasu
* 1973 - Just Topic
* 1972 - Anjudy
* 1971 - Andros
* 1970 - Baguette
* 1969 - Vain
* 1968 - Rajah
* 1967 - Giulia
* 1966 - Storm Queen
* 1965 - Eye Liner
* 1964 - Farnworth
* 1963 - Time And Tide
* 1962 - Bogan Road
* 1961 - Columbia Star
* 1960 - Sky High
* 1959 - Noholme
* 1958 - Wiggle
* 1957 - Todman
* 1956 - Count Olin
* 1955 - Knave
* 1954 - Lindbergh
* 1953 - Prince Cortauld
* 1952 - French Echo
* 1951 - Ocean Bound
* 1950 - True Course
* 1949 - Lady Pirouette
* 1948 - Wattle
* 1947 - Temeraire
* 1946 - Persian Prince
* 1945 - Magnificent
* 1944 - Scaur Fel
* 1943 - Flight
* 1942 - Bangster
* 1941 - All Love
* 1940 - John
* 1939 - High Caste
* 1938 - Pandava
* 1937 - Ajax
* 1936 - Tonga
* 1935 - Young Idea
* 1934 - Great Legend
* 1933 - Hall Mark
* 1932 - Kuvera
* 1931 - Burwood
* 1930 - Chemosh
* 1929 - Parkwood
* 1928 - Mollison
* 1927 - Cannon
* 1926 - Rampion
* 1925 - Manfred
* 1924 - Heroic
* 1923 - Linaway
* 1922 - Rosina
* 1921 - Furious
* 1920 - Tressady Queen
* 1919 - Bigaroon
* 1918 - Outlook
* 1917 - Thrice
* 1916 - Wolaroi
* 1915 - Two
* 1914 - Woorak
* 1913 - Athenic
* 1912 - Cider
* 1911 - Posadas
* 1910 - Desert Rose
* 1909 - Malt King
* 1908 - Malt Queen
* 1907 - Lady Rylstone
* 1906 - Collarit
* 1905 - Charles Stuart
* 1904 - Lord Fitzroy
* 1903 - Kilfera
* 1902 - Brakpan
* 1901 - Ibex
* 1900 - Haulette
* 1899 - Reviver
* 1898 - Bobadil
* 1897 - Aurum
* 1896 - Coil
* 1895 - Bob Ray
* 1894 - Acmena
* 1893 - Carnage
* 1892 - Autonomy
* 1891 - Oxide
* 1890 - Wilga
* 1889 - Rudolph
* 1888 - Volley
* 1887 - Matador
* 1886 - Blairgowrie
* 1885 - Uralla
* 1884 - Bargo
* 1883 - Warwick
* 1882 - Navigator
* 1881 - Spinningdale
* 1880 - Grand Prix
* 1879 - Baronet
* 1878 - His Lordship
* 1877 - Chester
* 1876 - Robinson Crusoe
* 1875 - Hyperion
* 1874 - Kingsborough
* 1873 - Rose D'Amour
* 1872 - Lecturer
* 1871 - Hamlet
* 1870 - Florence
* 1869 - Lamplighter
* 1868 - Fenella
* 1867 - Fireworks
* 1866 - Fishhook
* 1865 - The Pitsford
* 1864 - Yattendon
The ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra was formed in San Francisco by Stephen Ashman,
a bass-player. They recorded several LPs in the 1984-1987 time period and
continue to be active. The Orchestra did not have any overt connection to ZaSu
Pitts beyond the name. They applied about 15 members (mostly male
instrumentalists and female singer-dancers) to producing big band sound
renditions of MoTown classics and other pop music and a few original
compositions. A late-1980's New Years Eve live show broadcast by KQED-TV (San
Francisco) is sometimes shown on public TV in the United States.
In the late 1980s, a rift developed between Ashman and the members of Zasu Pitts
who left the band en masse and formed their own similarly themed band Big Bang
Beat link Ashman recruited new musicians and continued under the Zasu Pitts
name.
The Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra won a Bammy Award for Best Independent Album
of 1985
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) (IPA: [ˈzeɪsu pits]) was an American
film actress who starred in many silent dramas, although later, her career
digressed to comedy sound films.
Name
Her unusual first name was coined from parts of the names "Eliza" and "Susan",
female relatives who both wanted Pitts's mother to name the child after them. In
many film credits and articles, her name was rendered as Zazu Pitts or Zasu
Pitts. Though her name is commonly mispronounced as "Zazz-oo", in her 1930s film
shorts with Thelma Todd (see below) it is clearly pronounced on-screen (by Todd)
as "ZAY-sue;" her name was also consistently pronounced "ZAY-sue" during her
recurrent guest appearances on Fibber McGee and Molly's show in 1939.
Biography
Born in Parsons, Kansas, to Rulandus and Nellie (Shay) Pitts, ZaSu was the third
of four children. Her aged New York-native father, who lost a leg back in the
Civil War times, had settled the family in Kansas by the time ZaSu was born, but
relocated to Santa Cruz, California in 1903, when she was 9, seeking a warmer
climate and better job opportunities. Her childhood home still stands at 208
Lincoln Street. She attended Santa Cruz High School and somehow rose above her
excessively shy demeanor to join the school's drama department. She went on to
cultivate what was once deemed her negative qualities by making a career out of
her unglamorous looks and wallflower tendencies in scores and scores of
screwball comedy treasures.
Pitts made her stage debut in 1915 and was discovered two years later for films
by pioneer screenwriter Frances Marion and made her debut in the silent film The
Little Princess (1917), starring Mary Pickford. Pitts became a leading lady in
Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece Greed (1924); based on this performance, von
Stroheim labelled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". Von Stroheim also
featured her in his films The Wedding March (1928) and Walking Down Broadway
(1933), which was re-edited by Alfred L. Werker and released as Hello Sister.
Pitts grew in popularity following a series of Universal one-reeler comedies and
earned her first feature-length lead in King Vidor's Better Times (1919). She
met and married potential matinée idol Tom Gallery in 1920 and paired up with
him in several films, including Bright Eyes (1921), Heart of Twenty (1920),
Patsy (1921) and A Daughter of Luxury (1922). Their daughter Ann was born in
1922.
In 1924, the actress, now a reputable comedy farceur, was given the greatest
tragic role of her career in Erich von Stroheim epic classic Greed (1924), an
over nine-hour picture edited to less than two. The surprise casting initially
shocked Hollywood but pointed out that she could draw tears and pathos with her
patented doleful demeanor as well as laughs. The movie has grown tremendously in
respect over time, having failed initially at the box office due to its
extensive cutting.
Pitts enjoyed her greatest fame, however, in the 1930s, often starring in B
movies and comedy shorts, often teamed with Thelma Todd. She also played
secondary parts in many films. Her stock persona (a fretful, flustered,
worrisome spinster) made her instantly recognizable and was often imitated in
cartoons and other films. She starred in a number of Hal Roach shorts and
features that were popular, and co-starred in a series of feature-length
comedies with Slim Summerville. Her brief stint in the Hildegarde Withers
mystery series was not well received, however; by this time Pitts was so
established as a comedienne that audiences didn't accept her as a brainy sleuth.
Trading off between comedy shorts and features, she earned additional kudos in
such heavy dramas as Sins of the Fathers (1928), The Wedding March (1928), also
helmed by von Stroheim, and War Nurse (1930). Still, by the advent of sound,
which was an easy transition for Pitts, she was fully secured in comedy. One
bitter and huge disappointment for her was when she was replaced in the war
classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial
appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs. She decided, however, to make
the most of a not-so-bad situation. She had them rolling in the aisles in such
wonderful and wacky entertainment as The Dummy (2010), Finn and Hattie (1931),
The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (2500), Sing and Like It (1934) and
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). She also excelled deliciously in her comedy
partnerships with stunning blonde comedienne Thelma Todd (in short films) and
comedian Slim Summerville (in features).
Breezing through the 1940s in assorted films, she found work in vaudeville and
on radio as well, trading quivery banter with Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, and Rudy
Vallee among others. She also tackled Broadway, making her debut in the mystery
Ramshackle Inn in 1944. The play, which was written especially for her, faired
quite well, and, as a result, took the show on the road frequently in later
years. Post-war films continued to give Pitts the chance to play comic snoops
and flighty relatives in such quality fare as Life with Father (1947), but into
the 1950s she started focusing on TV. This culminated in her best known series
role playing second banana to cruiseline social director Gale Storm in The Gale
Storm Show (1956) [a.k.a. Oh, Susannah] as Nugie, the shipboard beautician.
Pitts' last role, shortly before her death, was as a voice actress (switchboard
operator) in the Stanley Kramer comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963).
She now has a street named after her in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Marriage
* John E. Woodall (8 October 1933 - 7 June 1963) (her death)
* Tom Gallery (23 July 1920 - 2 May 1933) (divorced); two children (one
adopted): a daughter, Ann Gallery, and a son, Don Gallery (né Marvin Carville La
Marr), whom they adopted and renamed after the 1926 drug-related death of his
mother, silent film actress Barbara La Marr.
Death
Ill health dominated Pitts' later years when she was diagnosed with cancer in
the mid-1950s. She continued to work until the very end, making brief
appearances in The Thrill of It All (1963) and the all-star comedy epic It's a
Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). She died at age 69 in Hollywood, California
leaving behind a gallery of scene-stealing worryworts for all to enjoy.
She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Trivia
* She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with
her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al
Hirschfeld.
* Was an excellent cook and a collector of candy recipes, which culminated into
a cook book entitled "Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts", which was published
posthumously in 1963.*
* Mae Questel caricatured Pitts's voice for the character Olive Oyl for the
Fleischer Studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip Popeye.
* From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Pitts also made numerous television
appearances, including her role in The Gale Storm Show|Oh! Susanna]]
(1956-1960), with Gale Storm. As Nugie, the shipboard beautician and
partner-in-crime, she made the most of her timid, twitchy mannerisms.
* She was on radio, appearing several times on the earliest Fibber McGee and
Molly show. Her character was a somewhat dipsy dame who was constantly looking
for a husband.
* Referred to sadistic gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as a "ferret".
* Conservative both politically and financially, she left her lucrative job with
Thelma Todd over a money dispute with Hal Roach, and often complained about
taxes.
* In Parsons, Kansas, there is a star tile at the Parsons Theatre to remember
her by. It is placed at the entrance for movie-goers to see.
Filmography
1917
* Uneasy Money (short subject)
* Tillie of the Nine Lives (short subject)
* A Desert Dilemma (short subject)
* His Fatal Beauty (short subject)
* Canning the Cannibal King (short subject)
* He Had 'em Buffaloed (short subject)
* The Battling Bellboy (short subject)
* O-My the Tent Mover (short subject)
* Behind the Map (short subject)
* Why They Left Home (short subject)
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (role unconfirmed)
* '49-'17
* The Little Princess
* A Modern Musketeer (short subject)
1918
* A Dog's Life (short subject) (scenes deleted)
* Who's Your Wife?
* Good Night, Paul (role unconfirmed)
* How Could You, Jean?
* The Pie Eyed Piper (short subject)
* A Society Sensation (short subject)
* The Talk of the Town
* The Greatest Thing in Life (scenes deleted)
* A Lady's Name
1919
* As the Sun Went Down (1919)
* Sunnyside (short subject) (scenes deleted)
* Men, Women, and Money
* Better Times
* Poor Relations
* The Other Half
1920
* Seeing It Through
* Bright Skies
* Heart of Twenty
1921
* Patsy
1922
* Is Matrimony a Failure?
* For the Defense
* Youth to Youth
* A Daughter of Luxury
1923
* Poor Men's Wives
* Souls for Sale (Cameo)
* The Girl Who Came Back
* Mary of the Movies (Cameo)
* Three Wise Fools
* Hollywood (Cameo)
*
* West of the Water Tower
1924
* Daughters of Today
* The Goldfish
* Triumph
* Changing Husbands
* Legend of Hollywood
* Wine of Youth (scenes deleted)
* The Fast Set
* Secrets of the Night
* Greed
1925
* 1925 Studio Tour (short subject)
* The Great Divide
* The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
* Old Shoes
* Pretty Ladies
* A Woman's Faith
* The Business of Love
* Thunder Mountain
* Lazybones
* Wages for Wives
* The Great Love
1926
* Mannequin
* What Happened to Jones
* Monte Carlo
* Early to Wed
* Sunny Side Up
* Risky Business
* Her Big Night
1927
* Casey at the Bat
1928
* 13 Washington Run
* Wife Savers
* Buck Privates
* The Wedding March
* Sins of the Fathers
1929
* The Dummy
* The Squall
* Twin Beds
* The Argyle Case
* Her Private Life
* Oh, Yeah!
* Paris
* The Locked Door
* This Thing Called Love
1930
* No, No, Nanette
* Honey
* All Quiet on the Western Front (appeared in silent version)
* The Devil's Holiday
* Little Accident
* The Squealer
* Monte Carlo
* War Nurse
* The Lottery Bride
* River's End
* Sin Takes a Holiday
* Passion Flower
* Free Love
1931
* Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (1931) (short subject)
* Finn and Hattie
* The Bad Sister
* Beyond Victory
* Seed
* Let's Do Things (short subject)
* A Woman of Experience
* Their Mad Moment
* Catch as Catch Can (short subject)
* The Big Gamble
* Penrod and Sam
* The Pajama Party (short subject)
* The Guardsman
* War Mamas (short subject)
* The Secret Witness
* On the Loose (short subject)
1932
* The Unexpected Father
* Broken Lullaby
* Seal Skins (short subject)
* Steady Company
* Red Noses (short subject)
* Shopworn
* Destry Rides Again
* Strictly Unreliable
* The Trial of Vivienne Ware
* Strangers of the Evening
* Westward Passage
* The Old Bull (short subject)
* Is My Face Red?
* Make Me a Star
* Roar of the Dragon
* The Vanishing Frontier
* Show Business (short subject)
* Blondie of the Follies
* Back Street
* Alum and Eve (short subject)
* The Crooked Circle
* Once in a Lifetime
* The Soilers (short subject)
* Madison Sq. Garden
* Sneak Easily (short subject)
1933
* They Just Had to Get Married
* Asleep in the Feet (short subject)
* Maids a la Mode (short subject)
* Out All Night
* The Bargain of the Century (short subject)
* Hello, Sister
* One Track Minds (short subject)
* Professional Sweethearts
* Her First Mate
* Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
* Aggie Appleby Maker of Men
* Meet the Baron
* Mr. Skitch
1934
* The Meanest Gal in Town
* Two Alone
* Three on a Honeymoon
* Sing and Like It
* Love Birds
* Private Scandal
* Dames
* Their Big Moment
* Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
* The Gay Bride
1935
* Ruggles of Red Gap
* Spring Tonic
* She Gets Her Man
* Hot Tip
* Going Highbrow
* The Affair of Susan
1936
* Thirteen Hours by Air
* Mad Holiday
* The Plot Thickens
* Sing Me a Love Song
1937
* Merry Comes to Town
* Wanted
* Forty Naughty Girls
* 52nd Street
1939
* The Lady's from Kentucky
* Naughty But Nice
* Mickey the Kid
* Nurse Edith Cavell
* Eternally Yours
1940s '1940
* It All Came True
* No, No, Nanette
1941
* Uncle Joe
* Broadway Limited
* Niagara Falls
* Weekend for Three
* Miss Polly
* Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1942
* Mexican Spitfire at Sea
* The Bashful Bachelor
* So's Your Aunt Emma
* Tish
1943
* Let's Face It
1946
* Breakfast in Hollywood
1947
* The Perfect Marriage
* Life with Father
1950s
* Francis (1950)
* Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
* Francis Joins the WACs (1954)
* This Could Be the Night (1957)
1960s
* The Teenage Millionaire (1961)
* The Thrill of It All (1963)
* It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra
The ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra was formed in San Francisco by Stephen Ashman,
a bass-player. They recorded several LPs in the 1984-1987 time period and
continue to be active. The Orchestra did not have any overt connection to ZaSu
Pitts beyond the name. They applied about 15 members (mostly male
instrumentalists and female singer-dancers) to producing big band sound
renditions of MoTown classics and other pop music and a few original
compositions. A late-1980's New Years Eve live show broadcast by KQED-TV (San
Francisco) is sometimes shown on public TV in the United States.
In the late 1980s, a rift developed between Ashman and the members of Zasu Pitts
who left the band en masse and formed their own similarly themed band Big Bang
Beat link Ashman recruited new musicians and continued under the Zasu Pitts
name.
The Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra won a Bammy Award for Best Independent Album
of 1985
ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) (IPA: [ˈzeɪsu pits]) was an American
film actress who starred in many silent dramas, although later, her career
digressed to comedy sound films.
Name
Her unusual first name was coined from parts of the names "Eliza" and "Susan",
female relatives who both wanted Pitts's mother to name the child after them. In
many film credits and articles, her name was rendered as Zazu Pitts or Zasu
Pitts. Though her name is commonly mispronounced as "Zazz-oo", in her 1930s film
shorts with Thelma Todd (see below) it is clearly pronounced on-screen (by Todd)
as "ZAY-sue;" her name was also consistently pronounced "ZAY-sue" during her
recurrent guest appearances on Fibber McGee and Molly's show in 1939.
Biography
Born in Parsons, Kansas, to Rulandus and Nellie (Shay) Pitts, ZaSu was the third
of four children. Her aged New York-native father, who lost a leg back in the
Civil War times, had settled the family in Kansas by the time ZaSu was born, but
relocated to Santa Cruz, California in 1903, when she was 9, seeking a warmer
climate and better job opportunities. Her childhood home still stands at 208
Lincoln Street. She attended Santa Cruz High School and somehow rose above her
excessively shy demeanor to join the school's drama department. She went on to
cultivate what was once deemed her negative qualities by making a career out of
her unglamorous looks and wallflower tendencies in scores and scores of
screwball comedy treasures.
Pitts made her stage debut in 1915 and was discovered two years later for films
by pioneer screenwriter Frances Marion and made her debut in the silent film The
Little Princess (1917), starring Mary Pickford. Pitts became a leading lady in
Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece Greed (1924); based on this performance, von
Stroheim labelled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". Von Stroheim also
featured her in his films The Wedding March (1928) and Walking Down Broadway
(1933), which was re-edited by Alfred L. Werker and released as Hello Sister.
Pitts grew in popularity following a series of Universal one-reeler comedies and
earned her first feature-length lead in King Vidor's Better Times (1919). She
met and married potential matinée idol Tom Gallery in 1920 and paired up with
him in several films, including Bright Eyes (1921), Heart of Twenty (1920),
Patsy (1921) and A Daughter of Luxury (1922). Their daughter Ann was born in
1922.
In 1924, the actress, now a reputable comedy farceur, was given the greatest
tragic role of her career in Erich von Stroheim epic classic Greed (1924), an
over nine-hour picture edited to less than two. The surprise casting initially
shocked Hollywood but pointed out that she could draw tears and pathos with her
patented doleful demeanor as well as laughs. The movie has grown tremendously in
respect over time, having failed initially at the box office due to its
extensive cutting.
Pitts enjoyed her greatest fame, however, in the 1930s, often starring in B
movies and comedy shorts, often teamed with Thelma Todd. She also played
secondary parts in many films. Her stock persona (a fretful, flustered,
worrisome spinster) made her instantly recognizable and was often imitated in
cartoons and other films. She starred in a number of Hal Roach shorts and
features that were popular, and co-starred in a series of feature-length
comedies with Slim Summerville. Her brief stint in the Hildegarde Withers
mystery series was not well received, however; by this time Pitts was so
established as a comedienne that audiences didn't accept her as a brainy sleuth.
Trading off between comedy shorts and features, she earned additional kudos in
such heavy dramas as Sins of the Fathers (1928), The Wedding March (1928), also
helmed by von Stroheim, and War Nurse (1930). Still, by the advent of sound,
which was an easy transition for Pitts, she was fully secured in comedy. One
bitter and huge disappointment for her was when she was replaced in the war
classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial
appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs. She decided, however, to make
the most of a not-so-bad situation. She had them rolling in the aisles in such
wonderful and wacky entertainment as The Dummy (1929), Finn and Hattie (1931),
The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). She also excelled deliciously in her comedy
partnerships with stunning blonde comedienne Thelma Todd (in short films) and
comedian Slim Summerville (in features).
Breezing through the 1940s in assorted films, she found work in vaudeville and
on radio as well, trading quivery banter with Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, and Rudy
Vallee among others. She also tackled Broadway, making her debut in the mystery
Ramshackle Inn in 1944. The play, which was written especially for her, faired
quite well, and, as a result, took the show on the road frequently in later
years. Post-war films continued to give Pitts the chance to play comic snoops
and flighty relatives in such quality fare as Life with Father (1947), but into
the 1950s she started focusing on TV. This culminated in her best known series
role playing second banana to cruiseline social director Gale Storm in The Gale
Storm Show (1956) [a.k.a. Oh, Susannah] as Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the
shipboard beautician.
Pitts' last role, shortly before her death, was as a voice actress (switchboard
operator) in the Stanley Kramer comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
She now has a street named after her in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Marriage
* John E. Woodall (8 October 1933 - 7 June 1963) (her death)
* Tom Gallery (23 July 1920 - 2 May 1933) (divorced); two children (one
adopted): a daughter, Ann Gallery, and a son, Don Gallery (né Marvin Carville La
Marr), whom they adopted and renamed after the 1926 drug-related death of his
mother, silent film actress Barbara La Marr.
Death
Ill health dominated Pitts' later years when she was diagnosed with cancer in
the mid-1950s. She continued to work until the very end, making brief
appearances in The Thrill of It All (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner and
the all-star comedy epic It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). She died at age 69
in Hollywood, California leaving behind a gallery of scene-stealing worryworts
for all to enjoy.
She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Trivia
Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.
The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing
inappropriate ones.
* She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with
her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al
Hirschfeld.
* Was an excellent cook and a collector of candy recipes, which culminated into
a cookbook entitled Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts which was published posthumously in
1963.
* Mae Questel caricatured Pitts's voice for the character Olive Oyl for the
Fleischer Studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip Popeye.
* From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Pitts also made numerous television
appearances, including her role in Oh! Susanna (1956-1960), with Gale Storm. As
Nugie, the shipboard beautician and partner-in-crime, she made the most of her
timid, twitchy mannerisms.
* She was on radio, appearing several times on the earliest Fibber McGee and
Molly show. Her character was a somewhat dipsy dame who was constantly looking
for a husband.
* Referred to sadistic gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as a "ferret".
* Conservative both politically and financially, she left her lucrative job with
Thelma Todd over a money dispute with Hal Roach, and often complained about
taxes.
* In Parsons, Kansas, there is a star tile at the Parsons Theatre to remember
her by. It is placed at the entrance for movie-goers to see.
Filmography
1917
* Uneasy Money (short subject)
* Tillie of the Nine Lives (short subject)
* A Desert Dilemma (short subject)
* His Fatal Beauty (short subject)
* Canning the Cannibal King (short subject)
* He Had 'em Buffaloed (short subject)
* The Battling Bellboy (short subject)
* O-My the Tent Mover (short subject)
* Behind the Map (short subject)
* Why They Left Home (short subject)
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (role unconfirmed)
* '49-'17
* The Little Princess
* A Modern Musketeer (short subject)
1918
* A Dog's Life (short subject) (scenes deleted)
* Who's Your Wife?
* Good Night, Paul (role unconfirmed)
* How Could You, Jean?
* The Pie Eyed Piper (short subject)
* A Society Sensation (short subject)
* The Talk of the Town
* The Greatest Thing in Life (scenes deleted)
* A Lady's Name
1919
* As the Sun Went Down (1919)
* Sunnyside (short subject) (scenes deleted)
* Men, Women, and Money
* Better Times
* Poor Relations
* The Other Half
1920
* Seeing It Through
* Bright Skies
* Heart of Twenty
1921
* Patsy
1922
* Is Matrimony a Failure?
* For the Defense
* Youth to Youth
* A Daughter of Luxury
1923
* Poor Men's Wives
* Souls for Sale (Cameo)
* The Girl Who Came Back
* Mary of the Movies (Cameo)
* Three Wise Fools
* Hollywood (Cameo)
* Tea: With a Kick!
* West of the Water Tower
1924
* Daughters of Today
* The Goldfish
* Triumph
* Changing Husbands
* Legend of Hollywood
* Wine of Youth (scenes deleted)
* The Fast Set
* Secrets of the Night
* Greed
1925
* 1925 Studio Tour (short subject)
* The Great Divide
* The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
* Old Shoes
* Pretty Ladies
* A Woman's Faith
* The Business of Love
* Thunder Mountain
* Lazybones
* Wages for Wives
* The Great Love
1926
* Mannequin
* What Happened to Jones
* Monte Carlo
* Early to Wed
* Sunny Side Up
* Risky Business
* Her Big Night
1927
* Casey at the Bat
1928
* 13 Washington Run
* Wife Savers
* Buck Privates
* The Wedding March
* Sins of the Fathers
1929
* The Dummy
* The Squall
* Twin Beds
* The Argyle Case
* Her Private Life
* Oh, Yeah!
* Paris
* The Locked Door
* This Thing Called Love
1930
* No, No, Nanette
* Honey
* All Quiet on the Western Front (appeared in silent version)
* The Devil's Holiday
* Little Accident
* The Squealer
* Monte Carlo
* War Nurse
* The Lottery Bride
* River's End
* Sin Takes a Holiday
* Passion Flower
* Free Love
1931
* Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (1931) (short subject)
* Finn and Hattie
* The Bad Sister
* Beyond Victory
* Seed
* Let's Do Things (short subject)
* A Woman of Experience
* Their Mad Moment
* Catch as Catch Can (short subject)
* The Big Gamble
* Penrod and Sam
* The Pajama Party (short subject)
* The Guardsman
* War Mamas (short subject)
* The Secret Witness
* On the Loose (short subject)
1932
* The Unexpected Father
* Broken Lullaby
* Seal Skins (short subject)
* Steady Company
* Red Noses (short subject)
* Shopworn
* Destry Rides Again
* Strictly Unreliable
* The Trial of Vivienne Ware
* Strangers of the Evening
* Westward Passage
* The Old Bull (short subject)
* Is My Face Red?
* Make Me a Star
* Roar of the Dragon
* The Vanishing Frontier
* Show Business (short subject)
* Blondie of the Follies
* Back Street
* Alum and Eve (short subject)
* The Crooked Circle
* Once in a Lifetime
* The Soilers (short subject)
* Madison Sq. Garden
* Sneak Easily (short subject)
1933
* They Just Had to Get Married
* Asleep in the Feet (short subject)
* Maids a la Mode (short subject)
* Out All Night
* The Bargain of the Century (short subject)
* Hello, Sister
* One Track Minds (short subject)
* Professional Sweethearts
* Her First Mate
* Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
* Aggie Appleby Maker of Men
* Meet the Baron
* Mr. Skitch
1934
* The Meanest Gal in Town
* Two Alone
* Three on a Honeymoon
* Sing and Like It
* Love Birds
* Private Scandal
* Dames
* Their Big Moment
* Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
* The Gay Bride
1935
* Ruggles of Red Gap
* Spring Tonic
* She Gets Her Man
* Hot Tip
* Going Highbrow
* The Affair of Susan
1936
* Thirteen Hours by Air
* Mad Holiday
* The Plot Thickens
* Sing Me a Love Song
1937
* Merry Comes to Town
* Wanted
* Forty Naughty Girls
* 52nd Street
1939
* The Lady's from Kentucky
* Naughty But Nice
* Mickey the Kid
* Nurse Edith Cavell
* Eternally Yours
1940s '1940
* It All Came True
* No, No, Nanette
1941
* Uncle Joe
* Broadway Limited
* Niagara Falls
* Weekend for Three
* Miss Polly
* Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1942
* Mexican Spitfire at Sea
* The Bashful Bachelor
* So's Your Aunt Emma
* Tish
1943
* Let's Face It
1946
* Breakfast in Hollywood
1947
* The Perfect Marriage
* Life with Father
1950s
* Francis (1950)
* Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
* Francis Joins the WACs (1954)
* This Could Be the Night (1957)
1960s
* The Teenage Millionaire (1961)
* The Thrill of It All (1963)
* It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Zasu River
The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Yazoo River include
Zasu River, Yazous River, Yahshoo River, Riviere des Yasoux, and Fiume dei
Yasous.
The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to
the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is
unclear. One long held belief is that it means "river of death".
The river is 188 miles long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie
River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood. The river parallels the Mississippi
River for some distance before joining it north of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Natural levees which flank the Mississippi prevent the Yazoo from joining it
before Vicksburg. As a result of this, a "yazoo stream" is a hydrologic term
used to describe any river in this situation.
The surrounding area was know as the Yazoo lands which name was lent to the
Yazoo land scandal.
The river was of major importance during the American Civil War. The first
electrically detonated underwater mine was used on the river in 1862 near
Vicksburg to sink the Union ironclad USS Cairo. The last section of the Cairo
was raised on December 12, 1964. It has been restored and is now on permanent
display to the public at the Vicksburg National Military Park.
There are 29 sunken ships from the American Civil War beneath the waters of the
river.
Variant names of the Yazoo River include Zasu River, Yazous River, Yahshoo
River, Riviere des Yasoux, and Fiume dei Yasous.
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RuneScape has often been one of
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RuneScape is a virtual world which
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Trik.com continues IJFG.com's
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With the rising popularity of
commercial MMORPG games came the desire from ardent players of these games to
run their own servers beside the ones run by the game's creator. Since the
original server software is not usually available, the behavior of the server
has to be re-engineered. This can be done by analyzing the data stream with the
original server, or by disassembling and analyzing the client which is
available.
Ultima Online was one of the first
large MMORPGs. Due to its openness in implementation, server emulators arose
very quickly, even during the beta stage of development. The destination to
which the client connects was changeable by simply editing a text file. In beta
stage the client-server data stream was not encrypted yet. The term server
emulator became known through Ultima Online server reimplementation such as UOX,
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its source code was released under the GNU General Public License relatively
early. RunUO is today the most widely used UO-server emulator. After RuneScape
implemented anti-cheating measures, many gamers left and started their own
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