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. Molly married her long time fiance Valery Lameignere on July 28, 1999, but they have since filed for divorce. 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 recently appeared in Not Another Teen Movie — a parody/tribute film of teen movies. Pitts was married to actor Tom Gallery from 1920 to 1932. Ringwald is currently participating in plays in London, and she performed on Broadway before moving to England. She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. She later lived in France for four years and only appeared in French-language films.

ZaSu Pitts died of cancer in Hollywood, California at age 69. During the period that Ringwald was Hollywood's top female teen, she appeared in countless covers of such publications as Tiger Beat, Teen and many others. 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. Among Ringwald's movies are Fresh Horses, The Pick Up Artist, and the movie that got the Brat Pack together: The Breakfast Club. 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. The reporter published a sensationalist article calling her and her fellow actors (Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore and Anthony Michael Hall) The Brat Pack. When Hollywood switched to talkies, Pitts, who had a distinctive nasal voice with a wavering vibrato, switched to comedy character actor roles. The term was first coined in 1985 after a night out with a reporter of the New Yorker Magazine.

Von Stroheim also featured her in The Wedding March and Walking Down Broadway. Ringwald was a member of the so-called Brat Pack. Perhaps her most famous early role was in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925). Her breakout role was Pretty in Pink (1986). Pitts debuted in silent film in 1917, including a number of leading roles. At age eight, she landed herself a place on TV's New Mickey Mouse Club. 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. At age five, she starred in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland, playing the dormouse.

ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas and grew up in Santa Cruz, California. Ringwald, the daughter of blind jazz pianist Bob Ringwald, started her acting career young. In many of her film credits and contemporary articles, her name is rendered as Zazu Pitts. After the success of the film, she appeared in many other teen movies. ZaSu Pitts (3 January 1894 - 7 June 1963) was a United States movie actress. Molly Ringwald (born February 18, 1968 in Rosewood, California) is a red-haired American actress who first became famous and popular with teenagers in the 1984 movie Sixteen Candles. Not Another Teen Movie (2001).

Betsy's Wedding (1990). Strike It Rich (1990). Fresh Horses (1988). For Keeps (1988).

The Pick-up Artist (1987). Pretty in Pink (1986). The Breakfast Club (1985). Sixteen Candles (1984).

Tempest (1982).