Zasu Pitts — Actor (32)
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River's End (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
River's End
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Charles Bickford / Evalyn Knapp …
other title: Sur la piste glacée
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
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Pretty Ladies (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pretty Ladies
director: Monta Bell actor: Zasu Pitts / Tom Moore …
other title: Die Revue schöner Frauen / El jazz-Band del Follies …
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Professional Sweetheart
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / Norman Foster …
other title: Novia profesional / 专业甜心 …
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 "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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Roar of the Dragon (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Roar of the Dragon
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Richard Dix / Gwili Andre …
other title: 轰鸣的龙
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. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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Naughty but Nice (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Naughty but Nice
director: Ray Enright actor: Ann Sheridan / Dick Powell …
other title: 顛倒眾生 / Cuatro tías y un sobrino …
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 exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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The Big Gamble (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Gamble
director: Fred Niblo actor: William Boyd / Dorothy Sebastian …
other title: 命を売る男 / 西非探奇 …
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.