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Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) [1] [2] was an American actress, singer and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, [3] known for her "smoky voice" [4] and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". [5]
Lizabeth Scott attended Scranton's Central High School, where she performed in several plays. After graduating, she spent the summer working with the Mae Desmond Players [1] at a stock theater in the nearby community of Newfoundland. [2]
Hughes details Scott’s noteworthy yet brief career as an actress, recording artist and mistress to a top Hollywood producer.
Loving You is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Hal Kanter and starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, and Wendell Corey. The film was Presley's first major starring role, following his debut in a supporting role in the 1956 film Love Me Tender. The film follows a delivery man who is discovered by a music publicist and a country ...
The most prominent critic of the era, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, in his review, was not favourably impressed: "To a new and quite clearly inexperienced little actress named Lizabeth Scott is given the job of making the girl in the story seem real. Except that Miss Scott has a fragile and appealingly candid face, she had little else ...
In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada, while she stayed in London, to honour her five-year contract with a British film company. [7] In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. [8]
The album's liner notes were written by columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed Lizabeth Scott. Wilson wrote that the actress "played in about six movies in which she was allegedly a singer," but the studio always hired another singer to dub her voice. Scott told Wilson: Every actress is a frustrated singer. For years I wanted to sing.
The Company She Keeps is a 1951 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer and Dennis O'Keefe. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. Cromwell's film of the previous year, Caged, also concerned a woman sent to prison. It marked Jeff Bridges' film debut.