ZaSu Pitts - Later Years and Death

Later Years and Death

Declining health dominated Pitts' later years, particularly after she was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1950s. However, she continued to work until the very end – making brief appearances in The Thrill of It All (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and as a cameo switchboard operator in the sheriff's office in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

She died June 7, 1963, aged 69, in Hollywood and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

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