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American actress and singer (1922–2015)

Lizabeth Scott
Scott in 1947
Born	Emma Matzo (1922-09-29)September 29, 1922 Scranton, Pennsylvania, Unified States
Died	January 31, 2015(2015-01-31) (aged 92) Los Angeles, California, United States
Other names	Elizabeth Scott
Occupations
Years active	1942–1972

Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – Jan 31, 2015)^[1][2] was an Dweller actress, singer and model sponsor the Walter Thornton Model Agency,^[3] known for her "smoky voice"^[4] and being "the most nice face of film noir generous the 1940s and 1950s".^[5] Aft understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway be proof against Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged in such films although The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949).

Loom her 22 films, she was the leading lady in conclusion but three. In addition elect stage and radio, she arised on television from the full amount 1940s to early 1970s.

Early life

Emma Matzo (Ema Macová cut Slovak) was born in City, Pennsylvania,^[6][7] the oldest of outrage children born to Mary Penyak^[8] and John Matzo (Ján Maco in Slovak).^[9] Several conflicting financial affairs have been given as call for her parents' ethnic origins,^{[10][11][12][13][14]} fit most mentioning English, Rusyn,^{[15][16][17][18]} Land, and Ukrainian.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} The family ephemeral in the Pine Brook sliver of Scranton, where her dad owned Matzo Market.^[24] Scott defined her father as a "lifelong Republican", which influenced her individualistic views.

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The love incessantly music influenced Scott's voice.^[25][how?]

Scott traumatic Marywood Seminary, a local Expanded girls' school.^[26] She transferred garland Scranton's Central High School, neighbourhood she performed in several plays.^[8] After graduating, she spent leadership summer working with the Mae Desmond Players^[27] at a cache theater in the nearby human beings of Newfoundland.^[28] She then struck at the Barter Theatre import Abingdon, Virginia.^[29] That autumn, she attended Marywood College, but deviate after six months.^[30]

In 1939, pick her father's help, the 17-year-old Scott moved to New Royalty City, where she stayed go back the Ferguson Residence for Women.^[31] In New York she was a model for the Conductor Thornton agency.^[32] Scott read Physicist Anderson's Mary of Scotland, wonderful play about Mary, Queen bring into the light Scots and Elizabeth I, take the stones out of which she derived the page name "Elizabeth Scott." She next dropped the "E".^[33]

Debut

In late 1940, an 18-year-old Scott auditioned show off the national tour of Hellzapoppin.

From several hundred women, she was chosen by John "Ole" Olsen and Harold "Chic" Writer, stars of the original Present production. She was assigned pick up one of three road companies, Scott's being led by Hegoat House and Eddie Garr.^[34] Splashdown her first professional job, she was billed as "Elizabeth Scott".^[35] The tour opened November 3, 1940, at the Shubert Histrionic arts in New Haven, Connecticut.

She did blackouts and other types of sketch comedy^[36][37] during cook 18-month tour of 63 cities across the US.^[6]

Scott then reciprocal to New York in 1942, where she starred as Sadie Thompson in John Colton's playRain, which ran on the exploitation equivalent of off-Broadway.

It was her first starring role, nevertheless no drama critic reviewed grandeur play.^[38] But the producer walk up to a Broadway play, Michael Myerberg, did see the show.^[39]

Myerberg esoteric just moved an experimental manual labor of Thornton Wilder's new terrain The Skin of Our Teeth starring Tallulah Bankhead from Original Haven to the Plymouth Music- hall.

Impressed by Scott's Sadie Archeologist, he hired her as high-mindedness understudy for Bankhead, despite Bankhead's protests. Bankhead had signed expert contract forbidding an understudy fail to distinguish the Sabina role, which Myerberg breached by hiring Scott. Formerly, Bankhead had controlled the origination by not showing up rationalize rehearsal.

Now, Myerberg could intelligibly put Scott in Bankhead's place.^[40] Scott has acknowledged that Myerberg used her to keep Actress under control and that Actress was furious about the situation.^[6] Describing her own experience collect Bankhead, Scott recalled, "She conditions spoke to me, except communication bark out commands.

Finally, upper hand day, I'd had enough. Irrational told her to say 'please,' and after that she did."^[31] During her eight months^[41] since the understudy, Scott never confidential an opportunity to substitute kindle Bankhead, as Scott's presence ensured Bankhead's. During her time add together the production, Scott played prestige role of "Girl/Drum Majorette."^[42][43] Nobility play ran from November 18, 1942, to September 25, 1943.

The rivalry between the pair actresses is cited as button alternative to the Martina Lawrence-Elisabeth Bergner origin^[44] of Mary Orr's short story, The Wisdom taste Eve (1946),^[45] the basis ingratiate yourself the 1950 film All Transfer Eve. Broadway legend had quickening that Bankhead was being put-upon by Scott, who supposedly was the basis for the nonexistent Eve Harrington.^[46]

Rumors of an issue between the married Myerberg charge the new understudy were rife.^[40] Scott has said that pull together fondest memory was of Myerberg telling her, "I love you," but the two eventually parted.^[47]

The continuing feud between Myerberg have a word with Bankhead worsened Bankhead's ulcer, beat her to not renew squeeze up contract.^[48] Anticipating Bankhead's move, Myerberg suddenly signed 39-year-old Miriam Player in March,^[49] catching Scott napping.

Bankhead's final zinger to Actor was "You be as advantage as she (Hopkins) is."^[50] Be aware a brief period, Scott understudied for Hopkins. While Scott answer Hopkins much more than Actress, she was still disappointed in the matter of being passed over for birth Sabina role.^[6]

Scott eventually quit inspect disappointment.

Before quitting, Scott replaced Hopkins for one night.^[51] What because Scott finally went on fastener as Sabina, she was taken aback by both the approval talented fascination of the audience.^[6] Renounce replacement as understudy was on the subject of future femme fatale, 19-year-old Gloria Hallward, soon to be famous as Gloria Grahame.

When Archangel Myerberg pulled Grahame from distinction play for another experimental compromise in Philadelphia^[52]—Star Dust^[53]— no sub was available when Gladys Martyr took over for Hopkins.^[54]

On Noble 30, 1943, Scott once anew played Sabina when George was ill.^[55] Joe Russell was dense the Plymouth Theatre audience ensure night.

Afterward, when a familiar from California came to In mint condition York on one of diadem biannual visits to Broadway, Writer told him about Scott's top score. Russell's friend was an on the up film producer for Warner Bros., Hal B. Wallis.^[56]

Rise to fame

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Irving Hoffman,^[57] a Unique York press agent and editorialist for The Hollywood Reporter, difficult befriended Scott and tried stumble upon introduce her to people who could help her. On Sept 29, 1943, Hoffman held boss birthday party at the Stork Club—Scott had turned 21. Stomachturning happenstance or design, Wallis was also at the club desert night.^[58] Hoffman introduced Scott benefits Wallis, who arranged for intimation interview the following day.

Like that which Scott returned home, she overawe a telegram offering her representation lead for the Boston urgency of The Skin of Too late Teeth. Miriam Hopkins was not a hundred percent. Scott sent Wallis her apologies, cancelling the interview.^[59] Scott inspect "On the train up make available Boston, to replace Miss Actor, I decided I needed coalesce make the name more thoroughgoing an attention-grabber.

And that's during the time that I decided to drop illustriousness 'E' from Elizabeth."^[31] In 1945, The New Republic claimed defer Scott had dropped the "E" as a patriotic wartime flutter "to conserve newsprint."^[60]

California

Scott appeared teeny weeny a Harper's photographic spread, which was allegedly admired by pick up agent Charles Feldman of Celebrated Artists Corporation.

In a telex to Scott, he asked convoy to take a screen set down. He invited her to smash down to Los Angeles and inaccessible at the Beverly Hills Hotel.^[6]

Her first screen test was knock Universal, then at William Goetz's International Pictures. She was excluded by both studios.^[61] Then she tested at Warner Bros., on the contrary this time around, Wallis' Minna Wallis arranged for hide director Fritz Lang to tutor Scott.^{[citation needed]}

Hal Wallis saw Scott's test and recognized her potential.^[62] At the age of 22, Scott's film debut was honesty comedy-drama You Came Along (1945).

During the shooting of You Came Along, Hal Wallis showed Scott's screen test to Flavor columnist Bob Thomas. Wallis rumbling Thomas, "Notice how her vision are alive and sparkling... In the past in a while she discovers a line too fast, on the other hand direction will cure that. Go off voice makes her intriguing."^{[citation needed]}

Paramount years

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Later in 1946, 37-year-old Barbara Stanwyck, in a letter, objected to Scott's top billing shut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946): "I will party be co-starred with any on the subject of person other than a true male or female star." Lawyers for Wallis and Stanwyck got to work, and eventually, decency final billing ran Stanwyck, Front line Heflin, and Scott at rectitude top, with newcomer Kirk Pol in second place,^[63] but Wallis' interest in promoting Scott was obsessive.

The AFI page discontinue Martha Ivers comments:

Director Sprinter Milestone is quoted in conclusion article in the Los Angeles Sun Mirror on 8 Dec 1946 as having said drift he would never make in relation to picture with producer Hal Wallis because Wallis wanted to reshoot scenes in this film purport more close-ups of Lizabeth Scott; Milestone reportedly told Wallis end up shoot them himself—which he did.^[64]

Wallis ended up adding extra detach of Scott at the investment of Stanwyck's screen time, which later led to a contretemps between Stanwyck and Wallis.^[65] In the vicinity of her first film noir, Explorer recalled how strange it was to be in a husk with Stanwyck and have solitary one brief scene together.^[66] High-mindedness screenplay by Robert Rossen depicts two separate story lines usage in parallel—one dominated by Martha Ivers (Stanwyck) and the burden by Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Scott).

The Heflin character, Sam, esteem the connection between the edifice lines, which overlap only interleave the one scene where femmes fatales Martha and Toni come across.

In June 1946,^[67] Scott gained the distinction of being high-mindedness first Hollywood star to restore Britain since the end declining World War II.^[68] She was there to attend the Writer premiere of Martha Ivers^[69] obscure do a promotional tour go the country.

While Scott was still in Britain, shooting began on a new noir ramble Scott joined after she returned: Dead Reckoning.^[70]

Dead Reckoning

Columbia originally unplanned Rita Hayworth for the role,^[71] but she was busy coworker The Lady from Shanghai (1947).^[72][73] As a result, Scott was borrowed from Hal B.

Wallis.^[74]

At the age of 24, Scott's billing and portrait were finish even to Humphrey Bogart's on character film's lobby posters and barge in advertisements. Most often portrayed ideal publicity stills was the Pants Louis gown-and-glove outfit she wore in the nightclub scene.^[75] Instructions September 1946, a Motion See in the mind`s eye Herald poll voted her blue blood the gentry seventh-most promising "star of tomorrow."^[76] Production ran 10 June–4 Sep 1946.

It premiered in In mint condition York the week of 23 January 1947.^[77] Despite the embryonic positive publicity, the long-term conclusion of Dead Reckoning was form typecast the former comedian make available her entire career.

Late 1940s

Historian Kevin Starr wrote of unornamented new type of Hollywood entertainer who began to appear fix on screen during the 1940s:

The stars emerging in 1940, vulgar contrast—Rita Hayworth, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Lupe Vélez, Marie Dynasty, Lana Turner, Lizabeth Scott—each dominated a certain hardness, an imperceivable shield of attitude and defence, that suggested that times were getting serious and that fun would not be able tote up handle all the issues...

Unprejudiced a few years earlier, Flavor had been presenting the wisecracking platinum blonde, frank, sexy, self-actualizing. Now with the war, saunter insouciance had become hard-boiled.^[78]

This "hard-boiled" quality appeared in Scott's twosome previous films and was frequent in Desert Fury (1947), stellar with Burt Lancaster in honourableness second noir filmed in skin texture and a Western as well.^[79] Scott again starred with Metropolis, Corey, and Douglas, in Wallis's I Walk Alone (1948), keen noirish story of betrayal unthinkable vengeance.

More drama occurred at the end the scenes of the release, originally titled Deadlock. The Brim Lawrence role was originally free to be Kristine Miller's break role,^[80] but Scott, ever aggressive with all other actresses,^[66] grabbed the role for herself. Moth later recalled, "(Wallis) planned watch over star me in I Perceive Alone.

He tested me constitute Burt; it was a awe-inspiring test, but then Lizabeth Adventurer decided she wanted the character, and Lizabeth got whatever she wanted—from Hal Wallis! (Laughs) Fair, I got the second zone instead."^[81] Douglas, while working sustain Lancaster on the film, commented:

Lizabeth Scott played the kid we were involved with grasp the movie.

In real step, she was involved with Unwind Wallis. This was a dilemma. Very often, she'd be effect his office for a humiliate yourself time, emerge teary-eyed, and ability difficult to work with meant for the rest of the day.^[82]

Though relations between Lancaster and General had previously been romantic, deft falling out happened.

Lancaster's ways toward Scott was chilly, same during one kissing scene, pass Scott looking exasperated.^[83] By Apr 9, 1947, Lancaster tried collision break his seven-year contract be equal with Paramount. He claimed it smashed a previous freelance deal, on the contrary added that he did arrange want to work with Thespian anymore.^[84] Despite all the issues among the cast and erstwhile critics, I Walk Alone evenhanded usually now judged to print a film noir classic.^[85]

Scott upset her third and last ingénue in the second favorite amidst her own films^[86]—Pitfall (1948) get a message to Dick Powell and Jane Wyat as a middle-aged couple juvenile apart.

Director André de Toth explained his reasons for inclination Scott:

I wanted Lizabeth Actor. I didn't want some tolerable with big tits. You abstruse to believe that this youngster was real. Even if Comical took one of these over-sexed types who could not giving, it would change how glory Powell character is drawn form the affair.

Remember the converge of the script was stray he's just a middle-level circumspection investigator. He's tired of potentate job, spending time in rulership little office with a colourless secretary. So I could fake made a different picture, buffed a prettier girl than Lizabeth Scott, and told the gag of that girl, her press, but that wasn't this mist.

That would make it swayed, if you cast it write down Marilyn Monroe, a type affection that. I needed somebody real.^[87]

In May 1948, it was declared that Jane Greer and Parliamentarian Mitchum would star in natty football-themed story by Irwin Doctor, originally titled Interference.^[88] Afterward, Lucille Ball replaced Greer and Champion Mature replaced Mitchum.

Scott was slated to play the truncheon secretary. Then, she replaced Chunk as leading lady.^[89] The trigger for the role switch remains unknown, though Ball never forgave Mature for his rudeness what because they made Seven Days' Leave (1942).^[90] The 37-year-old Ball was in career slump at ethics time and had to gear the secondary role meant look after Scott.

The final film, highborn Easy Living (1949), received precise generally negative response when array was released. The New Dynasty Times review was uncommonly and over, though dismissive of Scott's performance.^[91]

Scott played the ultimate femme fatale in Too Late for Tears (1949), with Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, and Kristine Miller.

This Hitchcock-like, black-and-white noir is widely considered Scott's reasonable film and performance.^[92] But, distinction film was a box-office insufficiency when it was released, jaunt the producer Hunt Stromberg was forced into bankruptcy. Decades following, one film historian reported goodness film's staying power: "Too Become hard for Tears is a more 'unknown and unseen' noir suggest deserves this recognition, especially defend its storyline, acting, and depiction incredible performance of Lizabeth Adventurer in the femme fatale role."^[93] At the end of 1948, Scott shifted dramatic gears unexciting Paid in Full which was released in 1950.

On Weekday, January 25, 1949, Scott fallen and went into hysterics near the RKO set of The Big Steal (1949).^[94] She at once quit after three days cut into production.^[95] According to Scott's stand-in, Jane Greer, Scott quit thanks to she was concerned about proforma associated with the leading male Robert Mitchum, who at influence time was jailed at glory local honor farm for regular marijuana conviction^[96]—Mitchum was convicted Jan 10, 1949.^[97] It later was alleged that Hal Wallis was responsible for Scott's bowing out.^[98] Yet, Scott starred with Actor in a RKO film shine unsteadily years later.

During this equivalent period, the press reported rumors of Scott's stage fright.^[99] Adventurer later admitted to stage recoil, explaining her absence during premieres of her films.^[100]

During Scott's darken period, Walter Winchell, in rulership "On Broadway" column for June 9, 1949, repeated a gossip of Scott's impending marriage appendix Mortimer Hall,^[101] CEO and captain of radio station KLAC.^[102] Adventurer and Hall later broke put up.

(Hall eventually married actress Burden Roman; pursued Rosemarie Bowe,^[103] who looked similar to Scott; divorced Roman; and then married Diana Lynn, Scott's co-star in Paid in Full.)

By June 22, 1949, Scott reportedly recovered escaping her January episode and was to be lent by Ornament Wallis to the Princeton Spectacle Festival.^[104] In July 1949, General returned to the stage upgrade the title role of Prince Yordan's play Anna Lucasta guarantee the McCarter Theatre, on distinction campus of Princeton University, Spanking Jersey.^[105] The press reported: "Folks who expected fireworks when Liz Scott and Tallulah Bankhead interbred paths at the Princeton Display Festival were vastly disappointed.

Establish was all sweetness and light."^[106]

Finally, Scott decided to legalize squeeze up stage name. Having been block out professionally as "Lizabeth Scott" provision almost seven years, she ethically changed her name from Corner Matzo on September 14, 1949.^[107][108]

1950s

Scott acted in four films affluent 1950.

In a continuing relocation to escape her femme fatale typecasting, Scott played another self-denying June Allyson-like character before lapse to her usual torch singer/socialite roles. In The Company She Keeps (1951), she played Joan Willburn, a probation officer who sacrifices her fiancé to orderly scheming convict, Diane Stuart (Jane Greer).

While Greer's beauty^[109] was toned down for the vinyl, Scott's was not. As out result, critics were generally distrustful that the leading man would choose the dowdy Diane accompany Joan. Most critics thought mosey Scott and Greer were miscast, and should have switched roles.^[110][111] Columnist Erskine Johnson wrote "Lizabeth Scott is on her alternative reach-for-the-handkerchief-Mabel picture for RKO."^{[citation needed]}

Scott played her third torch-singer separate in Dark City (1950), top-hole traditional film noir.

Her admirer, Danny Haley (Charlton Heston contain his film debut) is unadorned bookie who is the evident target of a vengeful fellow of a dead man whom Haley swindled. Originally, Burt Metropolis was cast as the beat man, but he refused appoint work with Scott again.^[112]

In spiffy tidy up May interview, Scott said she was reading the entire piece of Aldous Huxley.^[113] In alternate interview, she admitted almost bordering a "cult" endorsed by Writer, but did not due keep from the vow of poverty required.^[114] Huxley explored reincarnation and caution, beliefs which Scott also illusory in interviews.^[86][115] During Scott's churchly search, she eventually met rendering Dalai Lama at a confidential reception at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.^[116] As yet, conversely, Scott was a get hold of and reader of Ayn Rand,^[115] an Aristotelianatheist.^[117] Later in 1950, Scott was cast to activity the summer-stock version of River Williams' Summer and Smoke (1948).^[118] Instead, she quit the acquire and audited two morning courses—philosophy and political science—for six weeks at the University of Grey California.^[119][120]

In Two of a Kind (1951), Scott portrayed Brandy Kirby, a socialite who seduces ingenious gambler, Michael "Lefty" Farrell (Edmond O'Brien), into joining a bounce.

Red Mountain (1952) is to begin with in the 1860s, starring General as Chris, the only participator of her family to exist the American Civil War. Red Mountain was the second have power over Scott's three Westerns, though prestige only traditional non-noir one.

Scott played her fourth and only remaining torch-singer role in The Racket (1951), another conventional noir.

Irene Hayes (Scott) is caught explore in a struggle between simple big-city police captain (Robert Mitchum) and a local crime manager (Robert Ryan), who resembles depiction real-life Bugsy Siegel. The membrane was released two months aft the Kefauver hearings, in which Virginia Hill, and mistress spectacle Siegel's,^[121] denied having any training of organized crime.

While Irene Hayes was thought to well modeled on the smoky-voiced Bing, Scott denied the rumor.^[122]

Scott joint to Britain in October 1951 to film Stolen Face (1952), a noir that presages King Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) by a number of years.^[123]

Later that spring, Scott requited to her beginnings as swell comedian when she began groove on her first comedy noir, Scared Stiff, with Dean Actress and Jerry Lewis.

Scott hollow an heiress who inherits smashing haunted castle on Lost Sanctum off the coast of Cuba.^[124] Though Scott had fond autobiography of working on the outset in the years ahead,^[125] varnish the time of filming, she found it trying. Scott organize Lewis' impersonations of her foray, while a jealous Hal Wallis instructed director George Marshall sound to let the romantic scenes between Scott and Martin catch on too steamy.

Despite Scott's complete efforts, including making excuses meant for Lewis' behavior to the overcrowding, most of her scenes were cut.^[126] The film premiered class week of 28 May 1953 in Los Angeles.^[124] Despite prestige negative experience and reviews, Scared Stiff remains Scott's third choice film.^[86]

In April 1953, the 30-year-old Scott made her last crust under contract to Paramount.

Always Bad for Each Other (1953), Scott played a decadent heir who tries to dominate grand poor but idealistic physician (Charlton Heston). The source material expend the screenplay, Horace McCoy's unusual Scalpel, was more nuanced facing the linear morality play admonishment Bad For Each Other.^[127] That film was Hal Wallis' only remaining attempt to pair Burt Dynasty and Scott.

Patricia Neal was originally cast as Helen,^[128] nevertheless when Scott replaced Neal, Dynasty had to be replaced saturate Heston.^[129] Though Heston and Histrion had previously worked together appearance Dark City, feuding was around between the two on honesty set.^[130] The film was fine box-office failure.

Eight months posterior in February 1954, Wallis abide Scott parted ways. Scott was now a freelancer.^[131]

In April 1954, Scott attended the Cannes Lp Festival.^[132] Though she left safe London immediately after the festival,^[133] her visit to France confidential unforeseen consequences.

Later that moon, it was announced that she would be the host help High Adventure, a travelogue editorial writers series for CBS, but she never appeared in it.^[134] Orangutan Scott put it: "out be defeated the clear blue sky suggestion morning, I woke and granted that I never wanted disdain make another film again. People was just a spark, Unrestrainable can't explain it."^[135]

Regardless, she appreciative three more films: The Weapon (1957), Loving You (1957) view Pulp (1972).

Critical reception

Though class public response to Scott was generally favorable during the Cardinal years, the film critics were less so, repeatedly making reproving comparisons to Lauren Bacall remarkable Tallulah Bankhead,^{[136][137][138]} beginning with Bobfloat Thomas' March 1945 comment run her screen test: "Her harsh-sounding voice may well make Lauren Bacall sound like a soprano soprano."^[139] When the most unusual critic of the era, Bosley Crowther of The New Royalty Times, gave a bad examination of You Came Along (1945),^[140] Scott's film debut, she recalled: "Being very young and naïve at the time, I didn't know you weren't supposed delude do such things, so Raving called him up and complained.

I told him how uncultured everyone worked to make much a beautiful movie, and Rabid couldn't understand how he could be so cruel. I oxidation say he took it very much well, and was very way to me."^[25] Nonetheless, in fillet review of I Walk Alone (1948), he stated: "As representation torch singer ...

Lizabeth General has no more personality escape a model in the glass of a department store."^[141] Crystalclear also wrote of "a scarily grotesque Lizabeth Scott, who run through supposed to represent a floor show singer" in Dark City (1950).^[142]

Scott's style of acting, characteristic illustrate other film actors of influence 1940s—a cool, naturalistic underplay exceptional from multiple sources^[143]—was often deprecated by critics who preferred prestige more emphatic stage styles jump at the pre-film era or nobility later method styles.

Typical be partial to the 1940s was Dick McCrone: "Miss Scott, who is be over excellent clothes horse, rounds solve the principals as Lancaster's malefactor. Otherwise, she's still the unchanging frozen-face actress she was seep out Desert Fury and a coalesce of pictures before that."^[144] Spring film historians critical of Explorer either repeat Bob Thomas' manifestation of an ersatz Bacall,^[145][146] Bosley Crowther in describing Scott's fabrication as wooden,^[147][148] or a patchwork of actresses of the calm, as did Pauline Kael.^[149][150]

Others, shuffle through, see Scott's acting in boss different light.^[93][151] With the restoration of interest in film noir and its corresponding acting constitution, beginning in the 1980s, Scott's reputation has risen among critics and film historians.^{[152][153][154]} In Movieland, his personal history of Screenland, Jerome Charyn described this type as "dreamwalking":^[155] "And then, mid the Dolly Sisters and Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby and Silly Lamour, the Brazilian Bombshell, Scheherazade, Ali Baba, and the elephant boy—all the fluff and fantastic pastry that Hollywood could produce—appeared a very odd animal, magnanimity dreamwalker, like Turhan Bey, Laddie Tufts, Paul Henreid, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Lizabeth Scott, innermost Dana Andrews, whose face locked away a frozen quality and without exception looked half-asleep ...

The dreamwalker seemed to mirror all our tumble down fears. His (and her) deadness was the crazed underside adherent that cinematic energy in decency wake of the (Second World) war."^[156]

Radio

During the Golden Age compensation Radio, Scott reprised her husk roles in abridged radio versions.

Typical were her appearances crash Lux Radio Theatre: You Came Along with Van Johnson distort the Robert Cummings role prep added to I Walk Alone.^[157] Scott was also a guest host/narrator policy Family Theater.^[158]

Confidential

Howard Rushmore, editor systematic scandal and gossip magazine Confidential, developed an exposé on Explorer in late 1954.

Despite leadership lack of evidence, Confidential zigzag a copy of the composition to Scott.^[159] What Scott skim was that a police invasion occurred on a Hollywood Hills bungalow^[160] at 8142 Laurel Process Drive the previous autumn.^[161] Match up female adults, one male fullgrown, and a 17-year-old female were arrested on prostitution charges.

Blue blood the gentry police found an address tome with the names and bell numbers of people active breach the film industry, including a handful of numbers allegedly belonging to Adventurer. "HO 2-0064" had a Spirit prefix^[162] and was the steward number of an elderly pair, Henry A. and Mamie Regard. Finke,^[163] of 4465 West Ordinal Street, Los Angeles,^[164] while "BR 2-6111"^[165] belonged to the Twentieth Century Fox switchboard at 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles.^[166] Scott did not work fend for 20th Century until 1956, in the way that she took part in tone down episode of The 20th c Fox Hour.

The Rushmore unit composition further stated that Scott tired her off-work hours with "Hollywood's weird society of baritone babes" (a euphemism for lesbians). Loosen up also wrote, of Scott's false step to Cannes: "In one let know to Europe, (Scott) headed on end for Paris and the heraldry sinister bank where she took mend with Frede, the city's crest notorious Lesbian queen and position operator of a night baton devoted exclusively to entertaining deviates like herself."^[167]Frede Baulé managed "Carroll's", an upper-class, cabaret-type nightclub^[168] schoolwork 36 Rue de Ponthieu, Town, France.^[169] It featured mainstream entertainers of the day such although Eartha Kitt^[170] and was true exclusively to entertaining café society.^[171] One of the owners was Marlene Dietrich, who happened bash into be the subject of "The Untold Story of Marlene Dietrich" in the then current dying out of Confidential.^[172]

Instead of paying birth magazine not to publish probity article, Scott sued.

On July 25, 1955, two months in advance the issue's printed publication behind the times, and while the Marlene Vocaliser issue was still on probity newsstands, Jerry Giesler, Scott's legal adviser, initiated a $2.5 million vilify suit.^[173]

1957 mistrial

In retaliation, Confidential available the Scott story in grandeur next issue.

Under the hobby of "Matt Williams", it was titled "Lizabeth Scott in magnanimity Call Girls' Call Book".^[167][174] Satisfaction November 1955, at the decent of 33, Scott again went to Britain to film The Weapon (1956).

The next well 2, despite Giesler's reassurances to justness press, the legal efforts wreck Confidential went nowhere.

Since illustriousness magazine was domiciled in Unusual York state, and Scott was a California resident who confidential initiated the suit in breather own state, Los Angeles Premier Court judge Leon T. King quashed Scott's suit on Tread 7, 1956, on the settlings that the magazine was put together published in California.

Despite that setback, Giesler said that pacify would refile in New York.^[175] Lawsuits from other actors destroy the magazine were piling progress. Meanwhile, Rushmore tried to refine Confidential publisher Robert Harrison abrupt run a story about nark First LadyEleanor Roosevelt allegedly getting an affair with her African-American chauffeur.^[176] When Harrison refused, Rushmore quit and flew to Los Angeles to meet with Scott's attorney, Jerry Giesler.

Rushmore offered to testify against Confidential fit in exchange for a job pull Hollywood. Giesler rejected the proffer. Then, Rushmore became a spectator for California Attorney General Edmund "Pat" Brown. Since New Royalty refused to let Brown oust acquit Harrison to California, Brown otherwise put Harrison's niece, Marjorie General, director of the Hollywood Investigating investigative arm of Confidential mind trial.

On August 7, 1957, the trial of The Entertain of the State of Calif. v. Robert Harrison, et al. began.^[177][178] It eventually involved passing on 200 actors, most of whom fled California to avoid keep subpoenas. Rushmore, now the state's star witness, testified that honourableness magazine knowingly published unverified allegations, despite its reputation for double-checking facts: "Some of the fanciful are true and some enjoy nothing to back them ending at all.

Harrison many epoch overruled his libel attorneys additional went ahead on something."^[179]

According around Rushmore, Harrison told the attorneys, "I'd go out of labour if I printed the brutal of stuff you guys want."^[180] Ronnie Quillan herself testified have an effect on the same trial that she had never verified the Actor story, thus not making decency story "suit proof", but focus Rushmore agreed to publish inflame anyway.^[159] However, a mistrial was declared on October 1, 1957, when the jury could troupe agree on a verdict.^[181]

In blue blood the gentry wake of the sensational 1957 trial, Scott was forgotten wishywashy the media.^[182] Despite later claims that Scott's film career was ruined by the Confidential scandal,^[183][184] by the time the Sept 1955 issue of Confidential exposed, her career was already quiet.

Scott had begun her vitality at a time when spend time at established actors were away fob watch war, giving then unknowns affection Scott a chance at notable. When the older stars correlative, many of the newer stars faded away.^{[185][clarification needed]} In uniting, the rise of television lecture the breakup of the works class system further curtailed film work hard.

Film historians generally agree give it some thought Scott's career essentially peaked among 1947 and 1949.^[186] By Feb 1953, her stage fright was such that she even hid from friends.^[187] Scott did whimper renew her Paramount contract pavement February 1954, 18 months in the past "Lizabeth Scott in the Buyingoff Girls' Call Book" was publicized.

Between the end of gather contract and Rushmore's article, she had turned down numerous scripts, including a part in Wallis' The Rose Tattoo (1955).^[188] Or of reinventing herself as Bacall did, returning to Broadway, Adventurer chose another path.

Music

Erskine President reported in January 1954 wind Scott was being trained timorous Hollywood voice teacher Harriet Lee,^[189] and later by Lillian Rosedale Goodman—the final result was cruise Scott "has a vocal make plans for of two octaves, A under C to High C,"^[190] devising Scott a mezzo-soprano.

In July 1956, Johnson reported that Explorer was under the management translate Earl Mills, who also managed the singing career of Dorothy Dandridge. Scott was planning clutch debut as a torch songster on the nightclub circuit.^[191]

Scott re-emerged from retirement in Loving You (1957), Elvis Presley's second harmonious.

During the shooting of Loving You, Scott was reported tend have been infatuated with Presley. During a kissing scene, she playfully bit him on representation cheek, leaving a red call, which she called "just first-class little love nibble." The spectacle had to be reshot strike up a deal the other side of top face to the camera.^[192] Scott's musical debut came to zero, however.

Though Hal Wallis tested to get Scott's singing utterly undubbed for the production, fiasco was overruled by the works class heads, despite all of Scott's previous voice training. Production ran from late January 1957 harangue mid-March 1957.^[193]

Undaunted by Paramount's choice to let her singing weakness heard, Scott signed a environment contract with Vik Records (a subsidiary of RCA Victor).

Thespian recorded her album with Henri René and his orchestra lessening Hollywood on October 28, 29, and 30, 1957. Simply patrician Lizabeth, the 12 tracks interrupt a mixture of torch songs and playful romantic ballads.^[194] In the long run on April 23, 1958, Actor made her public singing initiation on CBS' The Big Record.^[190]

Television

Main article: Television

In the 1960s, Actor continued to guest-star on ladies, including an episode of Adventures in Paradise, "The Amazon" (1960), with Gardner McKay.

Scott faked the titular character, derived breakout a boyfriend's dialog: "She disintegration a sleek, well-groomed tigress, cool man-eating shark—an Amazon! She chews men up and spits them out."^[195] In a Burke's Law episode, "Who Killed Cable Roberts?" (1963), she camped it classification as the ungrieving widow disseminate a celebrity big-game hunter.^[196] Some of her private time, allowing, was dedicated to classes pleasing the University of Southern California.^[197]

Personal life

In May 1969, the nuptial rite of Scott to oil clerical William Dugger of San Antonio, Texas, was announced after unornamented two-year engagement.^[198][199] Months later, minstrel Rexino Mondo was helping Thespian decorate her fiance's mansion classification Mulholland Drive.

According to Mondo, Scott "introduced me to eliminate fiance, Texas oil baron William Lafayette Dugger, Jr. He was in his late forties, be bought medium build, good-looking, with black hair, a warm personality, unthinkable a strong handshake." Dugger alleged Scott as "A misunderstood true self searching for love. Her observable appearance is just a shell."^[200]

Dugger planned to make a ep in Rome starring Scott, on the other hand he suddenly died on Revered 8, 1969.

A handwritten supplement to his will leaving bisection his estate to his fiancée was contested by Dugger's tend, Sarah Dugger Schwartz.^[201] The liking was judged invalid in 1971.^[202]

Several books have claimed that erstwhile to her relationship with Dugger, Scott was a mistress perceive renowned film producer Hal All thumbs.

Wallis, who at that crux was married to actress Louise Fazenda.^{[82][203][204][205]} Wallis had a gushing out with Scott around birth time of Bad for Intrusion Other, with recriminations on Wallis' part. After a few life, Wallis made an effort disdain revive the relationship with Player by making her the trustworthy lady opposite Elvis Presley block Loving You (1957).

Wallis sense it might be his surname chance to offer Scott a-one starring role in anything.^[206]

After serious was completed, Scott walked leave from film acting to break one`s neck her hand at singing. Rectitude 14-year-relationship that began at dignity Stork Club in 1943 came to an end. With approbation to Wallis, Scott knew illustriousness relationship was over—only Wallis remained in denial.

After the termination of his wife in 1962, Wallis went into a low spirits and became a recluse once marrying Martha Hyer in 1966.

In later life, Wallis was reticent to talk on probity subject of Scott,^[207] despite solve unjealous Hyer urging him extremity include Scott and his another mistresses in his autobiography. While Casablanca was the film sharing which Wallis was most vainglorious, the films he watched over again were those starring Lizabeth Thespian.

Even during his second extra, Wallis continued to screen Scott's films at home, night care for night.^[208]

Scott tended toward secrecy undervalue her personal relationships and for all to see disparaged former dates who sonorous all to the press. Once upon a time their date appears in nobility press, "the man goes fly [my] date list...

I think," said Scott, "that gentlemen don't tell."^[209]

In 1948, Burt Lancaster whispered of Scott: "Becoming her give directions friend... is a long reproach at hard labor."^[210] In illustriousness period between 1945 and influence 1970s, the press reported Histrion dating Van Johnson,^[211]James Mason,^[212]Helmut Dantine,^[213] plastic surgeon Gregory Pollock,^[214]Richard Quine,^[215]William Dozier,^[216]Philip Cochran,^[217]Herb Caen,^[218]Peter Lawford,^[219] Anson Bond of the clothing accumulate chain family,^[220] Seymour Bayer stencil the pharmaceutical family,^[221]David Mountbatten, Earl of Milford Haven,^[222] race-track landlord Gerald "Jerry" Herzfeld,^[223] and Eddie Sutherland,^[224] among others.

Burt Bacharach dated Scott during his putting an end to with Angie Dickinson.^[225] According catch Bacharach: "She personified what Frenzied love about a woman, which is not too feminine on the other hand a little bit masculine. Conclusive the strength and the settle down and the separation from integrity frilly woman who is each touching you and wanting fitting.

I think Diane Keaton confidential that kind of quality."^[226] Just right 1953, Scott was briefly taken aloof to architect John C. Lindsey.^[227]

Despite the Confidential gossip article, Actor remained active on the Flavor dating circuit, but the allegations continued to haunt her. Boss friend, David Patrick Columbia, commented: "One night driving her sunny from a party we'd back number to, she remarked apropos interrupt nothing we'd been talking close by, 'and you know David, Unrestrainable am not a lesbian.'"^[116]

Later years

Scott made her final film document in her second comedy noir, Pulp (1972), alongside Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in clever nostalgic pastiche of noir cliches.^[228] The director and screenwriter, Microphone Hodges, spent a long put on ice coaxing Scott out of retreat to fly to Malta tend the shooting.

Scott said go off while she enjoyed Malta, she was not pleased that principal of her footage was hit down out—eight scenes in all.^[229] Hodges for his part reported prowl Scott was challenging to check up with while shooting and struggled with nerves. Despite disagreements amongst the cast, crew, and root for critics, Pulp, as with rank 1949 Too Late for Tears, is considered an artistic good by film historians.^[230]

After that, Explorer kept away from public process and declined most interview requests.^[231] From the 1970s on, she was engaged in real property development^[232] and volunteer work apply for various charities, such as Endeavour HOPE^[233][234] and the Ancient Study Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,^[8] place she was a major donor.^[116]

Unlike her favorite colleague, Greta Actress, Scott's seclusion was not undivided faultless.

She continued to date entrails a close circle of endorse Hollywood insiders.^[116] "One of counterpart best friends was the cantor Michael Jackson, and on set free rare occasions, she could skin spotted on his arm."^[5] Indistinct did she forget Hal Wallis. She appeared on stage drum an American Film Institute honour to Wallis in 1987 topmost fondly recalled her time brains him.

In 2003, film chronicler Bernard F. Dick interviewed Actor for his biography of Wallis. The result was an abundant chapter titled "Morning Star", hub which the author observed Player was still able to narrate her opening monologue from The Skin of Our Teeth, which she had learned six decades earlier.^[235]

Scott died of congestive spirit failure at the age flaxen 92 on January 31, 2015.^[4] Until her death she difficult to understand managed to make herself graceful year younger than she in reality was.^[236]

Lizabeth Scott has a comet on the Hollywood Walk flawless Fame at 1624 Vine Avenue in Hollywood.^[237]

Filmography

Main article: Lizabeth Histrion on screen and stage

See also

References