Lizabeth scott actress death this week
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Sultry actress Lizabeth Scott (1922-2015), 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 2013.
Scott was born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pa. in 1922 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 1940s, the heyday of that American film genre. She was often billed as Paramou
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Lizabeth Scott
American actress and singer (1922–2015)
Lizabeth Scott | |
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Scott in 1947 | |
| Born | Emma Matzo (1921-09-29)September 29, 1921 or 1922 Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | (aged 92 or 93) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Other names | Elizabeth Scott |
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| Years active | 1942–1972 |
Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1921 or 1922 – January 31, 2015)[1][2][3] was an American actress, singer and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency,[4] known for her "smoky voice"[5] and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s".[6] After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged in such films as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949). Of he
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From the Archives: Lizabeth Scott dies at 92; sultry leading woman of film noir
Actress Lizabeth Scott, whose sultry looks and smoky voice led many a man astray in 1940s and ‘50s film noir, died Jan. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 92.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said her longtime friend Mary Goodstein.
Scott aspired to be a stage actress but was stereotyped as the femme fatale in the hard-boiled, film noir world of crime, tough talk and dark secrets.
“She had the smoldering look, the blond hair, the voice,” Alan Rode, a rulle historian who produces annual bio noir festivals, said Friday. “She was someone you would see in a nightclub through a haze of cigarette smoke, with a voice made husky bygd a couple of highballs and an unfiltered Pall Mall.”
Scott starred in numerous films in the genre, mostly as the bad girl — or in a variation, the good girl gone bad — with evocative titles such as “Dead Reckoning,” “I Walk Alone,” “Pitfall” and “Too