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Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed.

Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received.

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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

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The Thrill of It All (1963)

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life. ...

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Teenage Millionaire (1961)

A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit. ...

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Disneyland '59 (1959)

Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Openi ...

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This Could Be the Night (1957)

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub. ...

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The Silent Partner (1955)

When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors P ...

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Francis Joins the WACS (1954)

Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs! ...

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Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from ...

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Francis (1950)

During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him. ...

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Lum and Abner (1949)

Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn't happen. In this failed pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose and says he'll meet him and Opie Cates to go fishing. Lum comes into the store with a letter fr ...

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Life with Father (1947)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost. ...

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The Perfect Marriage (1947)

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court. ...

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Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)

The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pit ...

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Dear Miss Gloria (1946)

A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice columnist to the lovelorn. ...

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Let's Face It (1943)

A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of ...

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Tish (1942)

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. ...

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So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942)

A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders. ...

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The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum, meanwhile, is too timid to propose to Geraldine. ...

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Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series. ...

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Weekend for Three (1941)

Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dism ...

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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman. ...

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Miss Polly (1941)

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy. ...

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Uncle Joe (1941)

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm. ...

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Niagara Falls (1941)

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room. ...

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Broadway Limited (1941)

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it. ...

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No, No, Nanette (1940)

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptl ...

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It All Came True (1940)

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house. ...

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Eternally Yours (1939)

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give he ...

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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edit ...

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Mickey the Kid (1939)

A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children. ...

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Naughty But Nice (1939)

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is expose ...

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The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)

Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an o ...

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52nd Street (1937)

The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s. ...

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Forty Naughty Girls (1937)

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show. ...

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Wanted! (1937)

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured. ...

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Sing Me a Love Song (1936)

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs. ...

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The Plot Thickens (1936)

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case. ...

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Mad Holiday (1936)

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder. ...

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13 Hours by Air (1936)

Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law. ...

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The Affair of Susan (1935)

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail. ...

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Hot Tip (1935)

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies. ...

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She Gets Her Man (1935)

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further com ...

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Going Highbrow (1935)

A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. ...

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Spring Tonic (1935)

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers. ...

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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to t ...

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The Gay Bride (1934)

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable. ...

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

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. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sic ...

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Dames (1934)

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show. ...

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Their Big Moment (1934)

Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder. ...

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Private Scandal (1934)

"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster, and Harold Waldridg ...

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Love Birds (1934)

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he's found is Slim's missing filling. ...

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Sing and Like It (1934)

While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue ...

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And She Learned About Dames (1934)

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour ...

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Three on a Honeymoon (1934)

This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away f ...

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Two Alone (1934)

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately. ...

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The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. ...

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Mr. Skitch (1933)

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933. ...

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Meet the Baron (1933)

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school. ...

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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption. ...

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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933)

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer. ...

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Her First Mate (1933)

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas. ...

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Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "puri ...

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One Track Minds (1933)

Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there. ...

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Hello, Sister! (1933)

While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love. ...

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The Bargain of the Century (1933)

Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate. ...

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Out All Night (1933)

A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery. ...

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The Vanishing Frontier (1933)

Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly ret ...

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Maids a la Mode (1933)

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party. ...

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Asleep in the Feet (1933)

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money. ...

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They Just Had to Get Married (1933)

Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich. ...

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She Whoops To Conquer (1933)

Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them. ...

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Sneak Easily (1932)

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb. ...

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Madison Square Garden (1932)

Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if ...

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The Soilers (1932)

Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work. ...

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Once in a Lifetime (1932)

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. ...

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The Crooked Circle (1932)

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

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Alum and Eve (1932)

When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital. ...

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Blondie of the Follies (1932)

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goe ...

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Show Business (1932)

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe. ...

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Back Street (1932)

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life. ...

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Roar of the Dragon (1932)

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Car ...

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Make Me a Star (1932)

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent. ...

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Is My Face Red? (1932)

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep tr ...

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The Old Bull (1932)

Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without pay ...

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Westward Passage (1932)

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried. ...

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Strangers of the Evening (1932)

Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on. ...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance. ...

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Strictly Unreliable (1932)

Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles. ...

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Destry Rides Again (1932)

The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison. ...

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Shopworn (1932)

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness. ...

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Red Noses (1932)

Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold. ...

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Steady Company (1932)

Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs. ...

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Sealskins (1932)

In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion. ...

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Broken Lullaby (1932)

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does no ...

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The Unexpected Father (1932)

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée. ...

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On the Loose (1931)

Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go o ...

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The Secret Witness (1931)

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder. ...

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War Mamas (1931)

During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers. ...

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The Guardsman (1931)

An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising ...

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The Pajama Party (1931)

After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion. ...

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Penrod and Sam (1931)

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there's also plenty of time to play pr ...

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The Big Gamble (1931)

A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed. ...

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Catch-As Catch-Can (1931)

Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight. ...

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Their Mad Moment (1931)

Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, ...

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A Woman of Experience (1931)

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy. ...

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Let's Do Things (1931)

Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub. ...

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Seed (1931)

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her a ...

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Beyond Victory (1931)

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind. ...

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The Bad Sister (1931)

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Mari ...

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Finn and Hattie (1931)

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but ...

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