So's Your Aunt Emma!: Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Warren Hymer, Douglas Fowley (1942 Movie)

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So's Your Aunt Emma is a 1942 American film directed by Jean Yarbrough.

The film is also known as Meet the Mob.

Cast Zasu Pitts as Aunt Emma Bates Roger Pryor as Terry Connors, Globe-Register Reporter Warren Hymer as Joe Gormley, Hammond Goon Douglas Fowley as Gus Hammond Gwen Kenyon as Maris, Terry's Girl Elizabeth Russell as Zelda Lafontaine Tristram Coffin as Flower Henderson, Club Savoy Owner Malcolm Bud McTaggart as Mickey O'Banion Stanley Blystone as Det. Lt. Miller Dick Elliott as Evans, Globe- Register Editor Eleanor Counts as Gracie Jack Mulhall as Reporter Burns

Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Produced by Lindsley Parsons (producer)
Barney A. Sarecky (associate producer)
Written by George Bricker (writer)
Edmond Kelso (writer)
Harry Hervey (story "Aunt Emma Paints the Town")
Cinematography Mack Stengler
Editing by Jack Ogilvie
Release date(s) 17 April 1942
Running time 62 minutes
Country United States
Language English

ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894-- June 7, 1963) was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, although later, her career digressed to comedy sound films. She overcame her looks and voice, which had served her in silent films to play dramatic roles, using them to craft her persona in talkie comedies.

In the 1940s, she also found work in vaudeville and on radio, trading quivery banter with Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, and Rudy Vallee, among others. She appeared several times on the earliest Fibber McGee and Molly show, playing a dizzy dame constantly looking for a husband. Her brief stint in the Hildegarde Withers mystery series, replacing Edna May Oliver, was not successful, however.

In 1944 Pitts tackled Broadway, making her debut in the mystery, Ramshackle Inn. The play, written expressly for her, fared well, and she took the show on the road in later years. Post-war films continued to give Pitts the chance to play comic snoops and flighty relatives in such fare as Life with Father (1947), but in the 1950s she started focusing on TV.

This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah), as Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. Her last role was as a switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and, less than seven months after the filming of the last scene, she became that movie's second cast member to die after filming was completed.

Roger Atkinson Pryor (July 19, 1828 -- March 14, 1919) was both an American politician and a Confederate politician serving as a congressman on both sides. He was also a jurist, serving in the New York Supreme Court, a lawyer, and newspaper editor. Pryor is also known for being a Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War.

Warren Hymer (25 February 1906 -- 25 March 1948) was an American film actor. He appeared in 129 films between 1929 and 1946.

He was born in New York, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. His remains are buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.

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