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Zasu Pitts: After a brief career as a leading actress in silent pictures, Zasu Pitts is best remembered today for her scatterbrained character roles in several 1930s and 40s comedies. Here are some of her best movies that we have collected for you from the Nostalgia Merchant. Zasu often starred in B movies and comedy shorts, teaming with Thelma Todd. She also played secondary parts in many films. Her movie personality (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, and co-starred in a series of feature-length comedies with Slim Summerville.

The Bashful Bachelor

Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-em-Down general store Abner Peabody (Norris Goff) because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine (Zasu Pitts) so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lun writes a proposal note but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy) who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff (Irving Bacon) appears with the Widders long-gone and hiding husband.

Starring: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Zasu Pitts, Grady Sutton, Oscar O’Shea, Louise Currie.
1942 • B&W • 78 minutes

$8.95

Breakfast in Hollywood

Wonderful nostalgic film based on the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s featuring Tom Breneman, the radio show's host. The real star of the show, however, is the beautiful Bonita Granville who is looking for her lost love. (Bonita Granville's last film) Musical performances by Nat King Cole and his trio and Spike Jones and the City Slickers.

Starring: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke, Hedda Hopper.
1946 • BW • 88 Minutes

$10.95

Broadway Limited

A Hollywood producer borrows a baby for his starlet hoping to stir up publicity for her. The plan backfires when on an express train from Chicago to Manhattan, the police believe that the baby has been kidnapped.

Starring: Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, Zasu Pitts
1946 • BW • 75 minutes

$10.95

The Crooked Circle

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Starring: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Ben Lyon, Irene Purcell.
1932 • BW • 70 Minutes - Watch this movie FREE.

$12.95

Meanest Gal in Town

A stranded actress turned manicurist get mixed up in the lives of people in a small American town.
Starring: Zasu Pitts - 1934 - BW - 62 Min.

$8.95

Miss Polly

his is a short comedy with ZASU PITTS starring as a woman with an eccentric handyman inventor (SLIM SUMMERVILLE). It should have been called "Love Potion 9" because it's all about the sip of special wine that puts the love gleam in someone's eye. Zasu's purpose is to cement the romance between ELYSE KNOX and DICK CLAYTON that is threatened to wilt if KATHLEEN HOWARD (Elyse's strict mother) has her say. The scheme to concoct a love potion goes awry with a few amusing incidents piling up until Pitts and Summerville are able to convince the townspeople to loosen up and stop being under the influence of Kathleen Howard's puritanical ways. At a town meeting, they slip the mixture to Howard and she chases Summerville out of the courtroom with a love gleam in her eyes.

1941 • B&W • 45 minutes.

$10.95

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure.

$10.95

Niagara Falls

The honeymoon capital of the world steams with newlywed bliss, but one odd couple that arrives is anything but loving. So Nosey neighbor Sam Sawyer plays cupid to young the young lovers. Then the sparks really fly.

Starring Slim Summerville and Zasu Pits
1938 • BW • 68 Minutes

$5.95

The Plot Thickens

Inspector Piper and his invaluable schoolmarm assistant, Hildegarde Withers are involved in solving the mystery of the ambulant corpse, the late and unlamented John Carter, who is killed in a roadster, then transported by one suspect to his garage and from there to his library by another. Inspector Piper, decides it is a simple case of a romantic triangle, but Hildegarde stumbles onto a clue which raises the old issue of international jewel thievery. And the plot thickens!

Starring: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer.
1936 • BW • 69 Minutes

$5.95

So's Your Aunt Emma

A meek middle-aged spinster, down-trodden by her two older sisters at home, makes a sentimental visit to the big city to see the boxer son of her long dead childhood beau. There she finds him falling victim to the fight rackets, and is herself caught in the crossfire between rival gangsters, who mistakenly believe that she is Ma Parker. Teaming up with a sports reporter juggling his work and his love life, she employs he own unique blend of naive innocence and no-nonsense realism to see that everybody gets their just deserts, herself included.

Starring Zasu Pitts and Roger Pryor.
1942 - BW - 62 Minutes.

$8.95