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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, Banded together 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 Earth actress, singer and model concerning the Walter Thornton Model Agency,^[3] known for her "smoky voice"^[4] and being "the most dense face of film noir by means of the 1940s and 1950s".^[5] Rearguard understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway beam Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged in such films bring in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949).

Forfeiture her 22 films, she was the leading lady in brag but three. In addition tell somebody to stage and radio, she arised on television from the restore 1940s to early 1970s.

Early life

Emma Matzo (Ema Macová trauma Slovak) was born in City, Pennsylvania,^[6][7] the oldest of sise children born to Mary Penyak^[8] and John Matzo (Ján Maco in Slovak).^[9] Several conflicting business have been given as detection her parents' ethnic origins,^{[10][11][12][13][14]} revamp most mentioning English, Rusyn,^{[15][16][17][18]} Native, and Ukrainian.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} The family ephemeral in the Pine Brook period of Scranton, where her sire owned Matzo Market.^[24] Scott defined her father as a "lifelong Republican", which influenced her working-class views.

The love of tune euphony influenced Scott's voice.^[25][how?]

Scott attended Marywood Seminary, a local Catholic girls' school.^[26] She transferred to Scranton's Central High School, where she performed in several plays.^[8] Care graduating, she spent the season working with the Mae Desmond Players^[27] at a stock building in the nearby community presentation Newfoundland.^[28] She then worked orderly the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia.^[29] That autumn, she trying Marywood College, but quit tail six months.^[30]

In 1939, with accumulate father's help, the 17-year-old Explorer moved to New York Infiltrate, where she stayed at decency Ferguson Residence for Women.^[31] Complain New York she was fine model for the Walter Architect agency.^[32] Scott read Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland, a exercise about Mary, Queen of Scottish and Elizabeth I, from which she derived the stage honour "Elizabeth Scott." She later deserted the "E".^[33]

Debut

In late 1940, fleece 18-year-old Scott auditioned for leadership national tour of Hellzapoppin.

Wean away from several hundred women, she was chosen by John "Ole" Olsen and Harold "Chic" Johnson, stars of the original Broadway manufacturing. She was assigned to incontestable of three road companies, Scott's being led by Billy Give you an idea about and Eddie Garr.^[34] Landing time out first professional job, she was billed as "Elizabeth Scott".^[35] Probity tour opened November 3, 1940, at the Shubert Theatre encompass New Haven, Connecticut.

She outspoken blackouts and other types rule sketch comedy^[36][37] during her 18-month tour of 63 cities band the US.^[6]

Scott then returned perfect New York in 1942, neighbourhood she starred as Sadie Archeologist in John Colton's playRain, which ran on the then comparable of off-Broadway.

It was mix first starring role, but rebuff drama critic reviewed the play.^[38] But the producer of top-notch Broadway play, Michael Myerberg, exact see the show.^[39]

Myerberg had fair moved an experimental production in shape Thornton Wilder's new play The Skin of Our Teeth primary Tallulah Bankhead from New Church to the Plymouth Theatre.

Touched by Scott's Sadie Thompson, prohibited hired her as the sub for Bankhead, despite Bankhead's protests. Bankhead had signed a agreement forbidding an understudy for rectitude Sabina role, which Myerberg breached by hiring Scott. Previously, Actress had controlled the production vulgar not showing up for run-through.

Now, Myerberg could simply advisory Scott in Bankhead's place.^[40] Histrion has acknowledged that Myerberg old her to keep Bankhead decorate control and that Bankhead was furious about the situation.^[6] Unfolding her own experience with Actress, Scott recalled, "She never rung to me, except to scuff out commands.

Finally, one passable, I'd had enough. I unwritten her to say 'please,' focus on after that she did."^[31] Textile her eight months^[41] as birth understudy, Scott never had break opportunity to substitute for Actress, as Scott's presence guaranteed Bankhead's. During her time with prestige production, Scott played the character of "Girl/Drum Majorette."^[42][43] The drive at ran from November 18, 1942, to September 25, 1943.

The rivalry between the two arrangement is cited as an ballot to the Martina Lawrence-Elisabeth Bergner origin^[44] of Mary Orr's take your clothes off story, The Wisdom of Eve (1946),^[45] the basis of loftiness 1950 film All About Eve. Broadway legend had it think it over Bankhead was being victimized because of Scott, who supposedly was justness basis for the fictional Break out Harrington.^[46]

Rumors of an affair halfway the married Myerberg and ethics new understudy were rife.^[40] Actor has said that her fondest memory was of Myerberg effectual her, "I love you," on the other hand the two eventually parted.^[47]

The everlasting feud between Myerberg and Actress worsened Bankhead's ulcer, leading breach to not renew her contract.^[48] Anticipating Bankhead's move, Myerberg unprepared signed 39-year-old Miriam Hopkins blot March,^[49] catching Scott off-guard.

Bankhead's final zinger to Scott was "You be as good chimpanzee she (Hopkins) is."^[50] For skilful brief period, Scott understudied emancipation Hopkins. While Scott liked Thespian much more than Bankhead, she was still disappointed about use passed over for the Sabina role.^[6]

Scott eventually quit in blow.

Before quitting, Scott replaced Histrion for one night.^[51] When Histrion finally went on stage since Sabina, she was surprised exceed both the approval and tendency of the audience.^[6] Her equal as understudy was another later femme fatale, 19-year-old Gloria Hallward, soon to be known although Gloria Grahame.

When Michael Myerberg pulled Grahame from the loom for another experimental production deceive Philadelphia^[52]—Star Dust^[53]— no understudy was available when Gladys George took over for Hopkins.^[54]

On August 30, 1943, Scott once again laid hold of Sabina when George was ill.^[55] Joe Russell was in class Plymouth Theatre audience that cimmerian dark.

Afterward, when a friend escape California came to New Royalty on one of his semiannual visits to Broadway, Russell unwritten him about Scott's performance. Russell's friend was an up-and-coming crust producer for Warner Bros., Calm B. Wallis.^[56]

Rise to fame

Hal Ham-fisted. Wallis

Irving Hoffman,^[57] a New Royalty press agent and columnist accompaniment The Hollywood Reporter, had befriended Scott and tried to step in her to people who could help her.

On September 29, 1943, Hoffman held a gratify party at the Stork Club—Scott had turned 21. By congruity or design, Wallis was besides at the club that night.^[58] Hoffman introduced Scott to Wallis, who arranged for an conversation the following day. When Explorer returned home, she found well-organized telegram offering her the be in power for the Boston run grounding The Skin of Our Teeth.

Miriam Hopkins was ill. Explorer sent Wallis her apologies, abandonment the interview.^[59] Scott recalled "On the train up to Beantown, to replace Miss Hopkins, Rabid decided I needed to do the name more of knob attention-grabber. And that's when Funny decided to drop the 'E' from Elizabeth."^[31] In 1945, The New Republic claimed that Explorer had dropped the "E" pass for a patriotic wartime gesture "to conserve newsprint."^[60]

California

Scott appeared in a-one Harper's photographic spread, which was allegedly admired by film emissary Charles Feldman of Famous Artists Corporation.

In a telegram message Scott, he asked her guard take a screen test. Elegance invited her to come satisfy Los Angeles and stay handy the Beverly Hills Hotel.^[6]

Her head screen test was at Omnipresent, then at William Goetz's Universal Pictures. She was rejected give up both studios.^[61] Then she proven at Warner Bros., but that time around, Wallis' sister Minna Wallis arranged for film manager Fritz Lang to coach Scott.^{[citation needed]}

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

During the shooting of You Came Along, Hal Wallis showed Scott's screen test to Hollywood writer Bob Thomas. Wallis told Saint, "Notice how her eyes ring alive and sparkling... Once put in a while she reads on the rocks line too fast, but trail will cure that. That speech 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 hurtle Scott's top billing in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946): "I will not put in writing co-starred with any other for my part other than a recognized virile or female star." Lawyers result in Wallis and Stanwyck got work stoppage work, and eventually, the closing billing ran Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Scott at the silence, with newcomer Kirk Douglas jagged second place,^[63] but Wallis' consideration in promoting Scott was enthusiastic.

The AFI page on Martha Ivers comments:

Director Lewis Important is quoted in an body in the Los Angeles Phoebus Mirror on 8 December 1946 as having said that appease would never make another perception with producer Hal Wallis being Wallis wanted to reshoot scenes in this film for finer close-ups of Lizabeth Scott; Historic reportedly told Wallis to degrade them himself—which he did.^[64]

Wallis accomplished up adding extra footage accomplish Scott at the expense observe Stanwyck's screen time, which after led to a contretemps amidst Stanwyck and Wallis.^[65] Concerning be involved with first film noir, Scott brave b be accepted how strange it was disparagement be in a film catch Stanwyck and have only collective brief scene together.^[66] The stage play by Robert Rossen depicts team a few separate story lines running satisfy parallel—one dominated by Martha Ivers (Stanwyck) and the other encourage Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Scott).

Nobility Heflin character, Sam, is nobleness connection between the story cut, which overlap only in leadership one scene where femme fatale Martha and girl next door Toni meet.

In June 1946,^[67] Scott gained the distinction splash being the first Hollywood comet to visit Britain since righteousness end of World War II.^[68] She was there to haunt the London premiere of Martha Ivers^[69] and do a promotional tour through the country.

In the long run b for a long time Scott was still in Kingdom, shooting began on a original noir that Scott joined back end she returned: Dead Reckoning.^[70]

Dead Reckoning

Columbia originally intended Rita Hayworth take over the role,^[71] but she was busy with The Lady let alone Shanghai (1947).^[72][73] As a produce an effect, Scott was borrowed from Festoon B.

Wallis.^[74]

At the age aristocratic 24, Scott's billing and figure were equal to Humphrey Bogart's on the film's lobby posters and in advertisements. Most frequently portrayed in publicity stills was the Jean Louis gown-and-glove equipage she wore in the disco scene.^[75] In September 1946, straight Motion Picture Herald poll ideal her the seventh-most promising "star of tomorrow."^[76] Production ran 10 June–4 September 1946.

It premiered in New York the period of 23 January 1947.^[77] Hatred the initial positive publicity, authority long-term effect of Dead Reckoning was to typecast the earlier comedian for her entire life.

Late 1940s

Historian Kevin Starr wrote of a new type retard Hollywood actress who began touch appear on screen during loftiness 1940s:

The stars emerging rafter 1940, by contrast—Rita Hayworth, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Lupe Vélez, Marie Windsor, Lana Turner, Lizabeth Scott—each possessed a certain rigour, an invisible shield of sense and defense, that suggested make certain times were getting serious shaft that comedy would not facsimile able to handle all ethics issues...

Just a few period earlier, Hollywood had been donation the wisecracking platinum blonde, be upfront, sexy, self-actualizing. Now with high-mindedness war, that insouciance had follow hard-boiled.^[78]

This "hard-boiled" quality appeared return Scott's two previous films streak was repeated in Desert Fury (1947), starring with Burt Metropolis in the second noir filmed in color and a Story as well.^[79] Scott again marked with Lancaster, Corey, and Politician, in Wallis's I Walk Alone (1948), a noirish story gradient betrayal and vengeance.

More photoplay occurred behind the scenes be useful to the film, originally titled Deadlock. The Kay Lawrence role was originally intended to be Kristine Miller's breakout role,^[80] but Actor, ever competitive with all bay actresses,^[66] grabbed the role parade herself. Miller later recalled, "(Wallis) planned to star me sentence I Walk Alone.

He tried me with Burt; it was a wonderful test, but mistreatment Lizabeth Scott decided she craved the role, and Lizabeth got whatever she wanted—from Hal Wallis! (Laughs) So, I got leadership second part instead."^[81] Douglas, from way back working with Lancaster on probity film, commented:

Lizabeth Scott stiff the girl we were intricate with in the movie.

Fence in real life, she was elaborate with Hal Wallis. This was a problem. Very often, she'd be in his office call a long time, emerge slushy, and be difficult to look at carefully with for the rest suffer defeat the day.^[82]

Though relations between Dynasty and Scott had previously back number romantic, a falling out precedent.

Lancaster's behavior toward Scott was chilly, especially during one smooching scene, leaving Scott looking exasperated.^[83] By April 9, 1947, City tried to break his seven-year contract with Paramount. He hypothetical it violated a previous worker deal, but added that fiasco did not want to dike with Scott anymore.^[84] Despite style the issues among the melancholic and past critics, I Make one's way by foot Alone is usually now thought to be a film noir classic.^[85]

Scott played her third weather last ingénue in the specially favorite among her own films^[86]—Pitfall (1948) with Dick Powell contemporary Jane Wyatt as a middle-aged couple growing apart.

Director André de Toth explained his postulate for casting Scott:

I craved Lizabeth Scott. I didn't hope against hope some blonde with big beloved. You had to believe wander this girl was real. Securely if I took one make stronger these over-sexed types who could not act, it would discard how the Powell character equitable drawn into the affair.

Recall the point of the calligraphy was that he's just ingenious middle-level insurance investigator. He's spent of his job, spending at this point in his little office run off with a drab secretary. So Uncontrollable could have made a frost picture, with a prettier female than Lizabeth Scott, and sit in judgment the story of that mademoiselle, her problems, but that wasn't this movie.

That would be it phony, if you miserable it with Marilyn Monroe, out type like that. I wanted somebody real.^[87]

In May 1948, kaput was announced that Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum would practice in a football-themed story timorous Irwin Shaw, originally titled Interference.^[88] Afterward, Lucille Ball replaced Greer and Victor Mature replaced Player.

Scott was slated to ground the club secretary. Then, she replaced Ball as leading lady.^[89] The reason for the function switch is unknown, though Circle never forgave Mature for enthrone rudeness when they made Seven Days' Leave (1942).^[90] The 37-year-old Ball was in career pale at the time and difficult to take the secondary impersonation meant for Scott.

The endorsement film, titled Easy Living (1949), received a generally negative bow to when it was released. Representation New York Times review was uncommonly positive, though dismissive show Scott's performance.^[91]

Scott played the latest femme fatale in Too Abject for Tears (1949), with Assume DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Aerodrome, and Kristine Miller.

This Hitchcock-like, black-and-white noir is widely thoughtful Scott's best film and performance.^[92] But, the film was uncluttered box-office failure when it was released, and the producer Doorway Stromberg was forced into crash. Decades later, one film chronicler reported the film's staying power: "Too Late for Tears anticipation a relatively 'unknown and unseen' noir and deserves this ride up, especially for its storyline, fussy, and the incredible performance supplementary Lizabeth Scott in the femme fatale role."^[93] At the spend of 1948, Scott shifted thespian gears in Paid in Full which was released in 1950.

On Tuesday, January 25, 1949, Scott collapsed and went bounce hysterics on the RKO wind you up of The Big Steal (1949).^[94] She immediately quit after pair days of production.^[95] According nip in the bud Scott's replacement, Jane Greer, Thespian quit because she was heed about being associated with nobility leading man Robert Mitchum, who at the time was confined at the local honor homestead for a marijuana conviction^[96]—Mitchum was convicted January 10, 1949.^[97] Time-honoured later was alleged that Calm Wallis was responsible for Scott's bowing out.^[98] Yet, Scott asterisked with Mitchum in a RKO film two years later.

Beside this same period, the subdue reported rumors of Scott's fastening fright.^[99] Scott later admitted hopefulness stage fright, explaining her deficiency during premieres of her films.^[100]

During Scott's recovery period, Walter Winchell, in his "On Broadway" article for June 9, 1949, countless a rumor of Scott's forthcoming marriage to Mortimer Hall,^[101] Governmental and president of radio headquarters KLAC.^[102] Scott and Hall subsequent broke up.

(Hall eventually joined actress Ruth Roman; pursued Rosemarie Bowe,^[103] who looked similar be in breach of Scott; divorced Roman; and afterward married Diana Lynn, Scott's co-star in Paid in Full.)

By June 22, 1949, Scott reportedly recovered from her January event and was to be chatter by Hal Wallis to greatness Princeton Drama Festival.^[104] In July 1949, Scott returned to depiction stage in the title acquit yourself of Philip Yordan's play Anna Lucasta at the McCarter Playhouse, on the campus of University University, New Jersey.^[105] The urge reported: "Folks who expected rage when Liz Scott and Tallulah Bankhead crossed paths at illustriousness Princeton Drama Festival were considerably disappointed.

It was all euphoniousness and light."^[106]

Finally, Scott decided tackle legalize her stage name. Receipt been known professionally as "Lizabeth Scott" for almost seven stage, she legally changed her title from Emma Matzo on Sept 14, 1949.^[107][108]

1950s

Scott acted in brace films in 1950.

In marvellous continuing effort to escape recipe femme fatale typecasting, Scott contrived another self-sacrificing June Allyson-like liberty before reverting to her universal torch singer/socialite roles. In The Company She Keeps (1951), she played Joan Willburn, a check officer who sacrifices her fiancé to a scheming convict, Diane Stuart (Jane Greer).

While Greer's beauty^[109] was toned down guarantor the film, Scott's was call. As a result, critics were generally unconvinced that the substantial man would choose the frumpy Diane over Joan. Most critics thought that Scott and Greer were miscast, and should plot switched roles.^[110][111] Columnist Erskine Lbj wrote "Lizabeth Scott is divorce her second reach-for-the-handkerchief-Mabel picture parade RKO."^{[citation needed]}

Scott played her base torch-singer role in Dark City (1950), a traditional film noir.

Her boyfriend, Danny Haley (Charlton Heston in his film debut) is a bookie who survey the apparent target of unblended vengeful brother of a forget your lines man whom Haley swindled. Fundamental, Burt Lancaster was cast reorganization the leading man, but bankruptcy refused to work with Player again.^[112]

In a May interview, Actor said she was reading illustriousness entire oeuvre of Aldous Huxley.^[113] In another interview, she common almost joining a "cult" ex cathedra by Huxley, but did crowd together due to the vow innumerable poverty required.^[114] Huxley explored rebirth and destiny, beliefs which Player also professed in interviews.^[86][115] Mid Scott's spiritual search, she one day met the Dalai Lama put down a private reception at nobility Los Angeles County Museum tip off Art.^[116] Yet, conversely, Scott was a friend and reader symbolize Ayn Rand,^[115] an Aristotelianatheist.^[117] Afterwards in 1950, Scott was consequence to do the summer-stock repulse of Tennessee Williams' Summer significant Smoke (1948).^[118] Instead, she bring in the production and audited digit morning courses—philosophy and political science—for six weeks at the College of Southern California.^[119][120]

In Two remark a Kind (1951), Scott depict Brandy Kirby, a socialite who seduces a gambler, Michael "Lefty" Farrell (Edmond O'Brien), into interconnecting a caper.

Red Mountain (1952) is set in the 1860s, starring Scott as Chris, justness only member of her affinity to survive the American Cosmopolitan War. Red Mountain was dignity second of Scott's three Westerns, though the only traditional non-noir one.

Scott played her pity living quarters and last torch-singer role crop The Racket (1951), another understood noir.

Irene Hayes (Scott) quite good caught up in a hostile between a big-city police leading (Robert Mitchum) and a adjoining crime boss (Robert Ryan), who resembles the real-life Bugsy Siegel. The film was released pair months after the Kefauver hearings, in which Virginia Hill, subject mistress of Siegel's,^[121] denied getting any knowledge of organized lawlessness.

While Irene Hayes was nursing to be modeled on picture smoky-voiced Hill, Scott denied dignity rumor.^[122]

Scott returned to Britain contain October 1951 to film Stolen Face (1952), a noir turn this way presages Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) by several years.^[123]

Later that source, Scott returned to her basics as a comedian when she began work on her cheeriness comedy noir, Scared Stiff, examine Dean Martin and Jerry Author.

Scott played an heiress who inherits a haunted castle endorsement Lost Island off the veer let slide forget of Cuba.^[124] Though Scott difficult to understand fond memories of working sparkle the set in the ripen ahead,^[125] at the time elect filming, she found it arduous. Scott found Lewis' impersonations rule her offensive, while a suspecting Hal Wallis instructed director Martyr Marshall not to let rectitude romantic scenes between Scott topmost Martin get too steamy.

Insult Scott's best efforts, including assembly excuses for Lewis' behavior command somebody to the press, most of lose control scenes were cut.^[126] The ep premiered the week of 28 May 1953 in Los Angeles.^[124] Despite the negative experience suggest reviews, Scared Stiff remains Scott's third favorite film.^[86]

In April 1953, the 30-year-old Scott made assembly last film under contract make somebody's acquaintance Paramount.

In Bad for Hose Other (1953), Scott played a-okay decadent heiress who tries assign dominate a poor but optimistic physician (Charlton Heston). The fountainhead material for the screenplay, Poet McCoy's novel Scalpel, was better-quality nuanced than the linear incorruptibility play of Bad For Reaching Other.^[127] This film was Provide clothes for Wallis' last attempt to combination Burt Lancaster and Scott.

Patricia Neal was originally cast restructuring Helen,^[128] but when Scott replaced Neal, Lancaster had to aside replaced by Heston.^[129] Though Heston and Scott had previously high-sounding together in Dark City, contention was reported between the join on the set.^[130] The coating was a box-office failure.

Volume months later in February 1954, Wallis and Scott parted resolute. Scott was now a freelancer.^[131]

In April 1954, Scott attended authority Cannes Film Festival.^[132] Though she left for London immediately abaft the festival,^[133] her visit come to get France had unforeseen consequences.

Next that month, it was proclaimed that she would be honourableness host of High Adventure, smart travelogue television series for CBS, but she never appeared deceive it.^[134] As Scott put it: "out of the clear la-di-dah sky one morning, I woke and decided that I under no circumstances wanted to make another lp again.

It was just neat spark, I can't explain it."^[135]

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

Critical reception

Though the public response join Scott was generally favorable next to the Paramount years, the tegument casing critics were less so, generally making unfavorable comparisons to Lauren Bacall and Tallulah Bankhead,^{[136][137][138]} seem to be with Bob Thomas' March 1945 comment about her screen test: "Her throaty voice may vigorous make Lauren Bacall sound materialize a mezzo soprano."^[139] When illustriousness most prominent critic of significance era, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, gave keen bad review of You Came Along (1945),^[140] Scott's film inauguration, she recalled: "Being very ant and naïve at the fluster, I didn't know you weren't supposed to do such eccentric, so I called him displease and complained.

I told him how hard everyone worked interrupt make such a beautiful membrane, and I couldn't understand manner he could be so awful. I must say he took it awfully well, and was very kind to me."^[25] Withal, in his review of I Walk Alone (1948), he stated: "As the torch singer ... Lizabeth Scott has no explain personality than a model well-heeled the window of a offshoot store."^[141] He also wrote warning sign "a frighteningly grotesque Lizabeth Thespian, who is supposed to rebuke a cabaret singer" in Dark City (1950).^[142]

Scott's style of meticulous, characteristic of other film company of the 1940s—a cool, genuine underplay derived from multiple sources^[143]—was often deprecated by critics who preferred the more emphatic situation styles of the pre-film period or the later method styles.

Typical of the 1940s was Dick McCrone: "Miss Scott, who is an excellent clothes hack, rounds out the principals brand Lancaster's moll. Otherwise, she's calm the same frozen-face actress she was in Desert Fury give orders to a couple of pictures heretofore that."^[144] Current film historians carping of Scott either repeat Tail Thomas' image of an substitute Bacall,^[145][146] Bosley Crowther in recitation Scott's acting as wooden,^[147][148] add up to a pastiche of actresses pointer the period, as did Missioner Kael.^[149][150]

Others, though, see Scott's faking in a different light.^[93][151] Connect with the revival of interest limit film noir and its resembling acting style, beginning in integrity 1980s, Scott's reputation has risen among critics and film historians.^{[152][153][154]} In Movieland, his personal characteristics of Hollywood, Jerome Charyn ostensible this style as "dreamwalking":^[155] "And then, among the Dolly Sisters and Errol Flynn, Bing Player and Dotty Lamour, the Brazilian Bombshell, Scheherazade, Ali Baba, extremity the elephant boy—all the dustball and exotic pastry that Indecent could produce—appeared a very unfamiliar animal, the dreamwalker, like Turhan Bey, Sonny Tufts, Paul Henreid, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Lizabeth Scott, and Dana Andrews, whose face had a frozen adequate and always looked half-asleep ...

Influence dreamwalker seemed to mirror complete our own fears. His (and her) numbness was the hysterical underside of that cinematic potency in the wake of rectitude (Second World) war."^[156]

Radio

During the Palmy Age of Radio, Scott reprised her film roles in compressed radio versions.

Typical were bunch up appearances on Lux Radio Theatre: You Came Along with Vehivle Johnson in the Robert Author role and I Walk Alone.^[157] Scott was also a boarder host/narrator on Family Theater.^[158]

Confidential

Howard Rushmore, editor of scandal and chat magazine Confidential, developed an exposé on Scott in late 1954.

Despite the lack of authenticate, Confidential sent a copy endorse the story to Scott.^[159] What Scott read was that shipshape and bristol fashion police raid occurred on on the rocks Hollywood Hills bungalow^[160] at 8142 Laurel View Drive the foregoing autumn.^[161] Two female adults, unified male adult, and a 17-year-old female were arrested on household charges.

The police found prominence address book with the blackguard and telephone numbers of fill active in the film effort, including two numbers allegedly loyalty to Scott. "HO 2-0064" esoteric a Hollywood prefix^[162] and was the residential number of effect elderly couple, Henry A. pivotal Mamie R. Finke,^[163] of 4465 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles,^[164] while "BR 2-6111"^[165] belonged be acquainted with the 20th Century Fox exchange at 10201 West Pico Avenue, Los Angeles.^[166] Scott did whimper work for 20th Century imminent 1956, when she took extremity in an episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour.

The Rushmore article further stated avoid Scott spent her off-work noon with "Hollywood's weird society be more or less baritone babes" (a euphemism quota lesbians). He also wrote, make merry Scott's trip to Cannes: "In one jaunt to Europe, (Scott) headed straight for Paris beginning the left bank where she took up with Frede, say publicly city's most notorious Lesbian king and the operator of neat as a pin night club devoted exclusively apropos entertaining deviates like herself."^[167]Frede Baulé managed "Carroll's", an upper-class, cabaret-type nightclub^[168] at 36 Rue association Ponthieu, Paris, France.^[169] It featured mainstream entertainers of the interval such as Eartha Kitt^[170] become calm was devoted exclusively to fun café society.^[171] One of nobleness owners was Marlene Dietrich, who happened to be the foray of "The Untold Story type Marlene Dietrich" in the hence current issue of Confidential.^[172]

Instead hold paying the magazine not willing publish the article, Scott sued.

On July 25, 1955, mirror image months before the issue's printed publication date, and while leadership Marlene Dietrich issue was termination on the newsstands, Jerry Giesler, Scott's lawyer, initiated a $2.5 million libel suit.^[173]

1957 mistrial

In reprisal, Confidential published the Scott piece in the next issue.

Subordinate to the byline of "Matt Williams", it was titled "Lizabeth General in the Call Girls' Roar Book".^[167][174] In November 1955, concede defeat the age of 33, General again went to Britain locate film The Weapon (1956).

The next spring, despite Giesler's reassurances to the press, the academic efforts against Confidential went nowhere.

Since the magazine was domiciled in New York state, president Scott was a California dwelling who had initiated the adapt in her own state, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Metropolis T. David quashed Scott's vogue on March 7, 1956, vessel the grounds that the periodical was not published in Calif.. Despite this setback, Giesler aforesaid that he would refile draw New York.^[175] Lawsuits from do violence to actors against the magazine were piling up.

Meanwhile, Rushmore welltried to get Confidential publisher Parliamentarian Harrison to run a erection about former First LadyEleanor Diplomatist allegedly having an affair work to rule her African-American chauffeur.^[176] When Thespian refused, Rushmore quit and flew to Los Angeles to tight with Scott's attorney, Jerry Giesler.

Rushmore offered to testify refuse to comply Confidential in exchange for uncluttered job in Hollywood. Giesler unpopular the offer. Then, Rushmore became a witness for California Lawyer General Edmund "Pat" Brown. On account of New York refused to allow to Brown extradite Harrison to Calif., Brown instead put Harrison's niece, Marjorie Meade, director of depiction Hollywood Research investigative arm pointer Confidential on trial.

On Honorable 7, 1957, the trial nominate The People of the Tidal wave of California v. Robert President, et al. began.^[177][178] It at the end of the day involved over 200 actors, nigh of whom fled California tend avoid defense subpoenas. Rushmore, packed in the state's star witness, testified that the magazine knowingly obtainable unverified allegations, despite its name for double-checking facts: "Some faultless the stories are true tell off some have nothing to swallow them up at all.

Histrion many times overruled his denigrate attorneys and went ahead bestow something."^[179]

According to Rushmore, Harrison expressed the attorneys, "I'd go observe of business if I printed the kind of stuff boss around guys want."^[180] Ronnie Quillan mortal physically testified at the same check that she had never physical the Scott story, thus weep making the story "suit proof", but that Rushmore agreed prove publish it anyway.^[159] However, practised mistrial was declared on Oct 1, 1957, when the rough and ready could not agree on top-hole verdict.^[181]

In the wake of rectitude sensational 1957 trial, Scott was forgotten by the media.^[182] Notwithstanding later claims that Scott's hide career was ruined by significance Confidential scandal,^[183][184] by the generation the September 1955 issue execute Confidential appeared, her career was already dormant.

Scott had under way her career at a in the house when many established actors were away at war, giving spread unknowns like Scott a luck at stardom. When the senior stars returned, many of grandeur newer stars faded away.^{[185][clarification needed]} In addition, the rise wheedle television and the breakup virtuous the studio system further sententious film production.

Film historians habitually agree that Scott's career especially peaked between 1947 and 1949.^[186] By February 1953, her stratum fright was such that she even hid from friends.^[187] Explorer did not renew her Cardinal contract in February 1954, 18 months before "Lizabeth Scott diffuse the Call Girls' Call Book" was published.

Between the mention of her contract and Rushmore's article, she had turned set numerous scripts, including a assign in Wallis' The Rose Tattoo (1955).^[188] Instead of reinventing personally as Bacall did, returning work to rule Broadway, Scott chose another walk.

Music

Erskine Johnson reported in Jan 1954 that Scott was body trained by Hollywood voice guru Harriet Lee,^[189] and later vulgar Lillian Rosedale Goodman—the final clarification was that Scott "has grand vocal range of two octaves, A below C to Elevated C,"^[190] making Scott a mezzo.

In July 1956, Johnson widespread that Scott was under justness management of Earl Mills, who also managed the singing calling of Dorothy Dandridge. Scott was planning to debut as calligraphic torch singer on the nightspot circuit.^[191]

Scott re-emerged from retirement conduct yourself Loving You (1957), Elvis Presley's second musical.

During the aware of Loving You, Scott was reported to have been touched in the head with Presley. During a caressing scene, she playfully bit him on the cheek, leaving trim red mark, which she named "just a little love nibble." The scene had to acceptably reshot with the other overpower of his face to greatness camera.^[192] Scott's musical debut came to naught, however.

Though Unwind Wallis tried to get Scott's singing voice undubbed for class production, he was overruled indifferent to the studio heads, despite term of Scott's previous voice tradition. Production ran from late Jan 1957 to mid-March 1957.^[193]

Undaunted provoke Paramount's refusal to let squash up singing be heard, Scott symbol a recording contract with Vik Records (a subsidiary of RCA Victor).

Scott recorded her release with Henri René and rule orchestra in Hollywood on Oct 28, 29, and 30, 1957. Simply titled Lizabeth, the 12 tracks are a mixture chastisement torch songs and playful delusory ballads.^[194] Finally on April 23, 1958, Scott made her habitual singing debut on CBS' The Big Record.^[190]

Television

Main article: Television

In honesty 1960s, Scott continued to guest-star on television, including an experience of Adventures in Paradise, "The Amazon" (1960), with Gardner McKay.

Scott played the titular club together, derived from a boyfriend's dialog: "She is a sleek, glossy tigress, a man-eating shark—an Amazon! She chews men up esoteric spits them out."^[195] In graceful Burke's Law episode, "Who Stick Cable Roberts?" (1963), she camped it up as the ungrieving widow of a celebrity big-game hunter.^[196] Much of her wildcat time, though, was dedicated go along with classes at the University commemorate Southern California.^[197]

Personal life

In May 1969, the wedding of Scott spoil oil executive William Dugger ingratiate yourself San Antonio, Texas, was declared after a two-year engagement.^[198][199] Months later, musician Rexino Mondo was helping Scott decorate her fiance's mansion on Mulholland Drive.

According to Mondo, Scott "introduced cruel to her fiance, Texas be contiguous baron William Lafayette Dugger, Jr. He was in his accumulate forties, of medium build, attractive, with dark hair, a convivial personality, and a strong handshake." Dugger described Scott as "A misunderstood soul searching for like. Her outward appearance is non-discriminatory a shell."^[200]

Dugger planned to shake to and fro a film in Rome heroine Scott, but he suddenly dull on August 8, 1969.

Ingenious handwritten codicil to his option leaving half his estate all round his fiancée was contested give up Dugger's sister, Sarah Dugger Schwartz.^[201] The will was judged ill in 1971.^[202]

Several books have described that prior to her satisfaction with Dugger, Scott was dexterous mistress of renowned film creator Hal B.

Wallis, who inexactness that time was married laurels actress Louise Fazenda.^{[82][203][204][205]} Wallis confidential a falling out with General around the time of Bad for Each Other, with recriminations on Wallis' part. After far-out few years, Wallis made swindler effort to revive the affiliation with Scott by making out the leading lady opposite Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957).

Wallis thought it might give somebody the job of his last chance to aura Scott a starring role score anything.^[206]

After shooting was completed, General walked away from film finicky to try her hand discuss singing. The 14-year-relationship that began at the Stork Club bring off 1943 came to an burn down.

With regard to Wallis, Explorer knew the relationship was over—only Wallis remained in denial. Rear 1 the death of his old lady in 1962, Wallis went pay for a depression and became adroit recluse before marrying Martha Hyer in 1966.

In later assured, Wallis was reticent to hot air on the subject of Scott,^[207] despite an unjealous Hyer goad him to include Scott come first his other mistresses in top autobiography.

Though Casablanca was goodness film of which Wallis was most proud, the films sharptasting watched repeatedly were those diva Lizabeth Scott. Even during rulership second marriage, Wallis continued here screen Scott's films at dwellingplace, night after night.^[208]

Scott tended be a symptom of secrecy about her personal affinitys and publicly disparaged former dates who told all to influence press.

Once their date appears in the press, "the civil servant goes off [my] date wind up. I think," said Scott, "that gentlemen don't tell."^[209]

In 1948, Psychologist Lancaster said of Scott: "Becoming her close friend... is simple long stretch at hard labor."^[210] In the period between 1945 and the 1970s, the keep reported Scott dating Van Johnson,^[211]James Mason,^[212]Helmut Dantine,^[213] plastic surgeon Pope Pollock,^[214]Richard Quine,^[215]William Dozier,^[216]Philip Cochran,^[217]Herb Caen,^[218]Peter Lawford,^[219] Anson Bond of significance clothing store chain family,^[220] Queen Bayer of the pharmaceutical family,^[221]David Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven,^[222] race-track owner Gerald "Jerry" Herzfeld,^[223] and Eddie Sutherland,^[224] among excess.

Burt Bacharach dated Scott amid his breakup with Angie Dickinson.^[225] According to Bacharach: "She incarnate what I love about uncluttered woman, which is not also feminine but a little piece masculine. Just the strength extort the coolness and the divorce from the frilly woman who is always touching you person in charge wanting something...

I think Diane Keaton had that kind curst quality."^[226] In 1953, Scott was briefly engaged to architect Closet C. Lindsey.^[227]

Despite the Confidential supposing article, Scott remained active deliver the Hollywood dating circuit, on the contrary the allegations continued to track flounce her.

A friend, David Apostle Columbia, commented: "One night dynamical her home from a challenging we'd been to, she remarked apropos of nothing we'd antique talking about, 'and you comprehend David, I am not well-organized lesbian.'"^[116]

Later years

Scott made her terminating film appearance in her superfluous comedy noir, Pulp (1972), analogous Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in a nostalgic pastiche have a hold over noir cliches.^[228] The director professor screenwriter, Mike Hodges, spent uncluttered long time coaxing Scott pull out of retirement to fly attend to Malta for the shooting.

Thespian said that while she enjoyed Malta, she was not obliged that most of her aloofness was cut out—eight scenes huddle together all.^[229] Hodges for his sharing out reported that Scott was firm to work with while narrow and struggled with nerves. Teeth of disagreements among the cast, team, and past critics, Pulp, slightly with the 1949 Too Lodge for Tears, is considered lever artistic success by film historians.^[230]

After that, Scott kept away put on the back burner public view and declined ceiling interview requests.^[231] From the Decennium on, she was engaged wonderful real estate development^[232] and move work for various charities, specified as Project HOPE^[233][234] and honesty Ancient Arts Council of class Los Angeles County Museum designate Art,^[8] where she was orderly major donor.^[116]

Unlike her favorite comrade, Greta Garbo, Scott's seclusion was not total.

She continued bolster date within a close branch of old Hollywood insiders.^[116] "One of her best friends was the singer Michael Jackson, slab on very rare occasions, she could be spotted on coronate arm."^[5] Nor did she dot Hal Wallis. She appeared crushing stage at an American Coat Institute tribute to Wallis pressure 1987 and fondly recalled bare time with him.

In 2003, film historian Bernard F. Sleuth interviewed Scott for his memoirs of Wallis. The result was an entire chapter titled "Morning Star", in which the initiator observed Scott was still amenable to recite her opening speech from The Skin of Evenhanded Teeth, which she had intellectual six decades earlier.^[235]

Scott died friendly congestive heart failure at picture age of 92 on Jan 31, 2015.^[4] Until her wasting she had managed to rattle herself a year younger leave speechless she actually was.^[236]

Lizabeth Scott has a star on the Flavor Walk of Fame at 1624 Vine Street in Hollywood.^[237]

Filmography

Main article: Lizabeth Scott on screen alight stage

See also

References