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ZaSu Pitts

June 24, 2019 By Cliff Aliperti

ZaSu Pitts trading card

‘Shop by the Stars’ Immortal Ephemera Store aisle featuring ZaSu Pitts (1894-1963) mini-biography, along with vintage movie collectibles for sale.

Filed Under: Store Mini-Bios Tagged With: ZaSu Pitts

The Devil’s Holiday (1930) Starring Nancy Carroll

September 20, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Nancy Carroll in The Devils Holiday

A look at early Paramount talkie The Devil’s Holiday (1930). Written and directed by Edmund Goulding, but saved from being stale by Nancy Carroll’s Academy Award nominated performance.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1930, Edmund Goulding, Hobart Bosworth, james kirkwood, jed prouty, morgan farley, morton downey, Nancy Carroll, Ned Sparks, Paramount, Paul Lukas, Phillips Holmes, ZaSu Pitts

Going Highbrow (1935) With Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, Edward Everett Horton

February 16, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Edward Everett Horton, June Martel and Ross Alexander

A look at the 1935 Warner Brothers comedy Going Highbrow includes a June Martel biographical aside. Plus how Guy Kibbee was discovered and Gordon Westcott’s untimely death later that same year.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, arthur treacher, Comedies, Edward Everett Horton, going highbrow, Gordon Westcott, Guy Kibbee, judy canova, june martel, Nella Walker, Robert Florey, Ross Alexander, Warner Bros., ZaSu Pitts

Greed (1924) Airs on TCM as Part of Erich von Stroheim Birthday Bash

September 21, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

1920s Erich von Stroheim Galeria Cinematografica Tobacco Premium

Don’t miss Erich von Stroheim’s Greed (1924) airing at 8:30 am EST, Wednesday, September 22 as part of TCM’s von Stroheim birthday celebration. Some of my memories of Greed from the first time I saw it.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Erich Von Stroheim, Frank Norris, Gibson Gowland, greed, McTeague, TCM, Turner Classic Movies, ZaSu Pitts

Charles Laughton as Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

April 24, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Charles Laughton and ZaSu Pitts 1935 Carreras Tobacco Card

Charles Laughton is a gentleman’s gentleman in Ruggles of Red Gap who’s transferred through a card game from his British master to the backwards Flouds in the USA

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles, Comedies, Leila Hyams, Mary Boland, Roland Young, ruggles of red gap, ZaSu Pitts

Today in 1894 – Birth of Zasu Pitts

January 3, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Screwball Zasu Pitts just may have given the greatest single performance in screen history back in 1924 as Trina in Erich Von Stroheim’s famously lost classic Greed.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Birthdays, Erich Von Stroheim, greed, lost films, Silent Film, ZaSu Pitts




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