Blue Plaque: ZaSu Pitts House
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50sumtin
N 36° 58.354 W 122° 01.639
10S E 586577 N 4092271
Blue Plaque on the house where ZaSu Pitts once lived in Santa Cruz as a child.
Waymark Code: WM6XN
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2006
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ZaSu Pitts grew up in Santa Cruz, California and started working as an actress in silent movies in 1917. She appeared with Mary Pickford in The Little Princess (1917) and by 1919 had a starring role in King Vidor's Better Times.
Her pale complexion, angular features and large eyes -- not to mention her unusual name -- caught the public's eye and she went on to appear in hundreds of movies.
She also appeared on stage and radio, and later in life she often played comic little old lady roles, as in Francis, The Talking Mule (1950) and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963).
Extra credit: Her first name combines the names of two aunts, Eliza and Susan.