France Nuyen

She received a "Woman of the Year" award in 1989 for her psychological work. 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. In 1986, she earned a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and began a second career as a psychological counselor for abused women and children and women in prison. 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 then went on to appear in Television( aforementioned Star Trek ) and film including Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) and The Joy Luck Club (1993). Pitts was married to actor Tom Gallery from 1920 to 1932. She was about to portray Suzie Wong in the film production but was replaced by Nancy Kwan. She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

She became a stage actress and portrayed Suzie Wong in theatrical production of The World of Suzie Wong in 1958 opposite William Shatner whom she later worked with again in an episode of Star Trek. ZaSu Pitts died of cancer in Hollywood, California at age 69. Born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France to a French mother and a Vietnamese father, she was raised in Marseille by a cousin. 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. France Nuyen (born July 31, 1939 as France Nguyen Vannga) is a Eurasian 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.