Jan. 3, 1894, the birth of a girl in Parsons, Kansas, produced a squabble. The newborn girl was to be named in honor of either aunt Eliza, or aunt Susie, and the argument didn’t end with the ...
“It’s a mess, isn’t it?” “It’s wonderful.” This is small-town widow Prunella Judson (ZaSu Pitts) talking to British ex-butler Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton) in Leo McCarey’s Ruggles of Red Gap ...
The tower of Santa Cruz High School was the Senior Study Hall. (Ross Eric Gibson collection) ZaSu Pitts in 1914, the year she graduated from Santa Cruz High School. (Courtesy Cynthia Matthews ...