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Lizabeth Scott
1922-
Updated 3/31/2008 with more films available on DVD.
biography
Born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1922, gorgeous Lizabeth Scott made her way to New York at an early age. She worked as a model while attending acting school, and by the time she was 20 years old, Scott was an understudy to Tallulah Bankhead. She was spotted by producer Hal B. Wallis, who put her under contract in the mid 1940s. Wallis had just left Warner Brothers and signed a deal with Paramount; therefore, most of Scott's films were released by Paramount. She would remain under contract to Wallis until 1957, when she walked away from the business.
Various shots of Lizabeth Scott, mostly from Paramount
Paramount's publicity machine dubbed Scott "The Threat," in order to create an on-screen persona for the beautiful actress. Scott's smoky sensuality lent itself to the film noir genre, and beginning with The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946; with Barbara Stanwyck), Paramount cast her in a string of thrillers. Due to a slight resemblance and similar voices, initially Scott was compared to Lauren Bacall, and even more so after Scott starred with Bacall's husband, Humphrey Bogart, in the noir thriller Dead Reckoning (1947). But Scott proved to be unlike any of her contemporaries, turning in one solid performance after another.
the films of lizabeth scott
You Came Along (1945)
With Robert Cummings in You Came Along, Scott's first film
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
From The Strange Love of Martha Ivers with Van Helfin
Dead Reckoning (1947)
From Dead Reckoning. LEFT: Beautiful pose. RIGHT: With Humphrey Bogart
Desert Fury (1947)
Stills from Desert Fury. LEFT: With John Hodiak and Wendell Corey. RIGHT: With Mary Astor
I Walk Alone (1948)
With Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in I Walk Alone. Like Scott, both Douglas and Lancaster were discovered for films by Hal Wallis
Pitfall (1948)
Images from the underrated United Artists film noir thriller Pitfall. LEFT: With Raymond Burr. RIGHT: Raymond Burr threatens Scott and Dick Powell
Too Late for Tears (1949)
With Don DeFore in Too Late for Tears. DeFore is best known for his role as George Baxter on the 1961-1966 TV series Hazel
Easy Living (1949)
From the RKO drama Easy Living, with Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, and Sonny Tufts
The Racket (1951)
From the RKO film The Racket
Silver Lode (1954)
Loving You (1957)
LEFT: With Dolores Hart, Elvis Presley, and Wendell Corey in Loving You, Elvis's second film. RIGHT: With frequent co-star Wendell Corey
lizabeth scott today
In the mid 1950s, a scandalous article in Confidential magazine, alluding to her sexual preferences, threatened to ruin Lizabeth Scott's acting career; after the release of Silver Lode (1954), Scott made no other films until 1957. In 1955, she sued Confidential for running the story. Ironically, Scott was also dogged by rumors of a relationship with producer Hal Wallis, who was at the time married to comedic actress Louise Fazenda. (Fazenda passed away in 1962, and Wallis married actress Martha Hyer in 1966.) With all the public scrutiny of her private life, it's little wonder that Scott left the business when her contract ended in 1957. Since her retirement, Scott has resurfaced in film and on television only sporadically, in the 1960s and 1970s. She also did some voice-over work in the 1960s for a series of commercials, and today the still-beautiful Scott occasionally makes public appearances, usually at film festivals.
The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers [DVD](1946) DVD
Barbara Stanwyck is superb as a wealthy woman suddenly faced with memories of murder in her past. Kirk Douglas (in his first role), Lizabeth Scott, Van Heflin, and Judith Anderson star. 116 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
Dead Reckoning [DVD](1947) DVD
When a war buddy is found murdered, ex-G.I. Humphrey Bogart investigates the killing and is soon ensnared in a dangerous web of desire, crime, and deception. Taut "film noir" thriller also stars Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Marvin Miller. 105 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish; publicity materials; theatrical trailers.
Too Late For Tears [DVD](1949) DVD
A film noir favorite, highlighted by Lizabeth Scott's classic "femme fatale" performance. She's mixed up in deceit, blackmail, and murder after a bag of money is mistakenly thrown into her car. Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy also star. AKA: "Killer Bait." 99 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Play All Regions.
Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 3 [DVD] DVD
A Mexican and an American agent team up to take on a California rancher who's been exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers, in "Border Incident" (1949). Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy star. A professional gambler (Robert Mitchum) and a beautiful singer (Jane Russell) get caught up in a deported crime lord's plan to get back into the U.S., in "His Kind of Woman" (1951). With Vincent Price, Raymond Burr. "YOU look into the gun of a fear-maddened killer" in "Lady in the Lake" (1947), director/star Robert Montgomery's "subjective camera" adaptation of the Raymond Chandler mystery about Detective Philip Marlowe's return to sleuthing. "On Dangerous Ground" (1952) focuses on a hardened New York cop (Robert Ryan) who softens up when he meets a compassionate blind girl (Ida Lupino)...the sister of a murder suspect. "The Racket" (1951) depicts the struggle between the police and the gang of racketeers they hope to put out of business. Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott star. Also included in this six-disc set is the documentary "Film Noir: Bringing Darkness Into Light." 8 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English; audio commentary; bonus shorts "Women in Hiding" (1940), "You, The People" (1940); more.
A Stolen Face (1952)/Blackout (1954) [DVD] DVD
Plastic surgeon Paul Henreid is so angry that he has lost concert pianist girlfriend Lizabeth Scott to her manager that he decides to make over the visage of a scarred female criminal in Scott's image. Henreid discovers that even with "A Stolen Face," his new lover is still a crook. With Andre Morell, Mary McKenzie. Next, "Blackout," from director Terence Fisher, stars Dane Clark as a downtrodden war veteran who agrees to marry sexy Belinda Lee in order to receive a decent chunk of cash. But after waking up from a drunken stupor with blood on his hands, Clark finds his father-in-law dead and Lee missing. What happened? Betsy Ann Davies and Alfie Bass also star. 159 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; biographies;
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
In "My Friend Irma" (1949), their screen debut, would-be stage stars Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis befriend scatterbrained blonde Marie Wilson. "My Friend Irma Goes West" (1950) finds the trio hopping a train to California and getting mixed up in a zany kidnapping plot. Martin is a football star charged with toughening up meek and mild Lewis, in "That's My Boy" (1951). The boys are Navy men wreaking havoc on a submarine, in "Sailor Beware" (1952). It's "Geronimo!" for Dean and Jerry when they play entertainers touring Army bases who wind up as recruits for the paratroop squad, in "Jumping Jacks" (1952). Dean is an accordion-playing vaudevillian who goes solo without help from second banana Jerry, in "The Stooge" (1952). There's hi-jinx on the golf links, with Jerry as "The Caddy" (1953) who's trying to help duffer Dean win at Pebble Beach. Donna Reed co-stars and Dino sings "That's Amore." And, the guys are "Scared Stiff" (1953) in a haunted castle that's the setting for some spooky goings-on, not the least of which is Jerry's impersonation of Carmen Miranda! 13 1/4 hrs. total on four discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English.
Silver Lode [DVD](1954) DVD
Western action is mixed with an allegorical look at '50s McCarthyism in this tale starring John Payne as a frontier sheriff who must fight to prove his innocence when U.S. marshal Dan Duryea comes to town with a warrant for his arrest on theft and murder charges. Lizabeth Scott co-stars. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; biographies; theatrical trailer; scene access.
Pulp [DVD](1972) DVD
Michael Caine shines as a hack thriller novelist in this twist-filled mystery laced with satire that reteamed him with "Get Carter" director Mike Hodges. Hired to ghostwrite a gangster film star's autobiography, Caine begins to suspect that the actor's Mafia contacts are real, as he becomes involved in an offbeat murder investigation that may wind up getting him turned into pulp. Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott co-star. 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French.
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filmography
FILM
Pulp (1972) with Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney
Loving You (1957) with Elvis Presley, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart, and James Gleason
The Weapon (1957) with Steve Cochran, Herbert Marshall, and Nicole Maurey
Silver Lode (1954) with John Payne, Dan Duryea, John Hudson, Harry Carey Jr., and Alan Hale Jr.
Bad for Each Other (1953) with Charlton Heston, Dianne Foster, Arthur Franz, Ray Collins, Marjorie Rambeau, and Ann Robinson
Scared Stiff (1953) with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Carmen Miranda
A Stolen Face (1952) with Paul Henreid
The Racket (1951) with Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins, Joyce Mackenzie, Robert Hutton, William Conrad, Les Tremayne, and Don Porter
Red Mountain (1951) with Alan Ladd, John Ireland, Arthur Kennedy, Jeff Corey, Neville Brand, Whit Bissell, and Jay Silverheels
Two of a Kind (1951) with Edmond O'Brien and Terry Moore
The Company She Keeps (1950) with Jane Greer, Dennis O'Keefe, John Hoyt, and Don Beddoe
Dark City (1950) with Charlton Heston, Don DeFore, Jack Webb, Viveca Lindfors, and Dean Jagger
Paid in Full (1950) with Robert Cummings, Eve Arden, and John Bromfield, Ray Collins, Kasey Rogers, Carol Channing, Margaret Field, and Dewey Robinson
Easy Living (1949) with Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Paar, Jeff Donnell, and Don Beddoe
Too Late for Tears (1949) with Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, and Arthur Kennedy
Pitfall (1948) with Dick Powell, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, and Ann Doran
I Walk Alone (1948) with Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, and Kirk Douglas
Desert Fury (1947) with John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, and Wendell Corey
Dead Reckoning (1947) with Humphrey Bogart
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Helfin, Judith Anderson, Darryl Hickman, and Ann Doran
You Came Along (1945) with Robert Cummings, Don DeFore, Charles Drake, Julie Bishop, Kim Hunter, Helen Forrest, and Franklin Pangborn
TELEVISION APPEARANCES
Burke's Law, episode Who Killed Cable Roberts?, originally aired October 4, 1963
Adventures in Paradise, episode The Amazon, originally aired March 21, 1960
The Big Record, originally aired May 14, 1958
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, episode A Hunting We Will Go, originally aired 1955
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