Zazu Pitts

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. She took up competitive poker in 2003, and finished in the money in her first major tournament at the World Poker Tour's 240 player Shooting Stars main event No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament in San Jose, California on March 4, 2004. They had two children: a daughter, Ann Gallery, and a son, Don Gallery (ne Marvin Carville La Marr), whom they adopted after the death of his mother, actress Barbara La Marr. She is a member of the Church of Scientology, and she was once married to Tom Cruise. Pitts was married to actor Tom Gallery from 1920 to 1932. She has appeared in blockbuster sci-fi films such as Lost in Space (1998), as well as the cult television series The X-Files (1998-99). She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Since then, her career has largely been focused on independent films, most notably the controversial Rapture (1991). Although she continues to do independent films, Rogers is certainly not averse to Hollywood.

ZaSu Pitts died of cancer in Hollywood, California at age 69. Her breakthrough role was opposite Tom Berenger in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). From the 1940s through the early 1960s ZaSu Pitts also made numerous television appearances, including her role in The Gale Storm Show, Oh! Susanna (1956-1960), with Gale Storm. Mimi Rogers (born Miriam Spickler, January 27, 1956) is an American movie actress. When Mae Questel was called on to create the screen voice of the character "Olive Oyl" for the Fleischer Studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip "Popeye", Questel created a caricature of Zazu Pitts' voice. When Hollywood switched to talkies, Pitts, who had a distinctive nasal voice with a wavering vibrato, switched to comedy character actor roles.

Von Stroheim also featured her in The Wedding March and Walking Down Broadway. Perhaps her most famous early role was in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925). Pitts debuted in silent film in 1917, including a number of leading roles. Her unusual first name was coined from parts of the names "Eliza" and "Susan", female relatives who both wanted ZaSu's mother to name the child after them.

ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas and grew up in Santa Cruz, California. In many of her film credits and contemporary articles, her name is rendered as Zazu Pitts. ZaSu Pitts (3 January 1894 - 7 June 1963) was a United States movie actress.