LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lizabeth Scott, whose long tawny hair, alluring face and low seductive voice made her an ideal film noir star in the s and ’50s, has died in Los Angeles. She was
Scott died Jan. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday ( ). Her longtime friend Mary Goodstein told the newspaper the cause was congestive heart failure.
Film noir, with its hard-bitten Cold War cynicism, captured the imaginations of large numbers of movie fans in the United States, as well as in France where the name originated, in the years immediately following World War II.
Like Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake, both of whom she resembled, Scott proved a perfect fit for the genre, easily able to play the case-hardened siren who snared and sometimes betrayed the anti-hero male star.
Described by film historian Leonard Maltin as a smoldering blonde who “slithered onto movie screens,” Scott made nearly two dozen films between and
She appeared with Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” (), and co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in “Dead Reckoning” (), Burt Lancaster in “Desert F
Lizabeth Scott Obituary
Published by Legacy Remembers on Feb. 7,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lizabeth Scott, whose long tawny hair, alluring face and low seductive voice made her an ideal film noir star in the s and '50s, has died in Los Angeles. She was
Scott died Jan. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday ( ). Her longtime friend Mary Goodstein told the newspaper the cause was congestive heart failure.
Film noir, with its hard-bitten Cold War cynicism, captured the imaginations of large numbers of movie fans in the United States, as well as in France where the name originated, in the years immediately following World War II.
Like Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake, both of whom she resembled, Scott proved a perfect fit for the genre, easily able to play the case-hardened siren who snared and sometimes betrayed the anti-hero male star.
Described by film historian Leonard Maltin as a smoldering blonde who "slithered onto movie screens," Scott made nearly two dozen films between and
She appeared with Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (), and co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in &quo
In the dark and tortured world of noir cinema, the male protagonists could often be found struggling against, then ultimately resigning themselves to, their respective fates. Such also seems to have been the case for one of the genre&#;s leading femme fatales, who passed away late last month. For sultry blonde Lizabeth Scott, who on more than one occasion found herself in competition or outright conflict away from the camera with 0ther actresses, the &#;A&#; star status that she won during her late s and early &#;50s heyday seemed to just as quickly elude her and force her into a premature farewell to show business.
Born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pa. in , the grocer&#;s daughter performed in theater companies in Pennsylvania and Virginia before leaving college after six months to pursue a stage career. An month study tenure in New York City followed, and in &#;with the new name Elizabeth Scott&#;she was tapped to join a touring company of the Broadway comedy hit Hellzapoppin&#;. Returning to New York in , Scott&#;s performance as Sadie Thompson in a revival of Rain brought her to the attention of producer Michael Myerberg, who hired her to serve as Tallulah Bankhead&#;s understu
Sultry actress Lizabeth Scott (), who just died in Hollywood of heart failure, was the star of a classic film noir that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association helped the Film Noir Foundation restore in
Scott was born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pa. in into a large family of Ukrainian immigrants. Her mother wanted her to become a journalist, but she refused, saying that she would become a theater actress or a nun. Her mother relented, and young Emma went to New York, changed her name, worked as a model and studied acting. As Scott, she appeared on Broadway and toured, got rave reviews, and turned down Hollywood offers. When she finally came West, she landed a contract with the major independent producer Hal B. Wallis, who was working out of Paramount Studios. Her sultry looks, sculpted cheekbones, blond hair and smokey, come hither voice landed her numerous roles in noir films, during the s, the heyday of that American film genre. She was often billed as Paramount&#;s answer to Veronica Lake or Lauren Bacall, even though she never matched their success. Still, she got to costar with a long &#;A&#; list of male leads: Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Di
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