By Steve CrumThe brilliant comedienne and Parsons, Kansas native ZaSu Pitts, born Eliza Susan Pitts, explains how to properly pronounce her unusual first name. Besides her terrific comedy acting on TV with Gale Storm and in movies with Thelma Todd, Pitts is memorable as a dramatic actress in the silent classic Greed (1924). ZaSu’s final role was as a telephone operator in 1963’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.