Zasu Pitts

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

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...

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

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...

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor...

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

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic...

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...

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

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

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

On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and...

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...

A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find...

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...

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...

A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she...

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...

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

On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on...

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

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes...

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...

A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.

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

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

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

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....

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.

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

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

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In...

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men,...

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...

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

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.

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...

Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...

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

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

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...

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...

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later,...

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

A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo...

Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor...

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern...

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

Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide...

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

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...

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

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

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

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a...

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...

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

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

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.

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....

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the...

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The...

Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised...

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

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.

Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas...

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...

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 1940's....

Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir...

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

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...

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

Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.

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

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....

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

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

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...

Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and...

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

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...

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

Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation,...

A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.

Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's...

Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the...

Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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...

A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about...

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...

Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given...

A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.

Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the...

The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open...

Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.

Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to...

Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the...

A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be...

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...

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...

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...

Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and...

In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her...

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite...

The marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place.

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

The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the...

Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too...

While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed...

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

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...

Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves...

When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes...

Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft...

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

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

"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...

A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and...

A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

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...