65 Facts About Lizabeth Scott

Lizabeth Scott transferred to Scranton's Central High School, where she performed in several plays.

Lizabeth Scott then worked at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia.

In 1939, with her father's help, the graduate 18-year-old Lizabeth Scott moved to New York City, where she stayed at the Ferguson Residence for Women.

In late 1940, a 19-year-old Lizabeth Scott auditioned for the national tour of Hellzapoppin.

Lizabeth Scott was assigned to one of three road companies, Scott's being led by Billy House and Eddie Garr.

Lizabeth Scott did blackouts and other types of sketch comedy during her 18-month tour of 63 cities across the US.

Lizabeth Scott then returned to New York in 1942, where she starred as Sadie Thompson in John Colton's play Rain, which ran on the then equivalent of off-Broadway.

Lizabeth Scott has acknowledged that Myerberg used her to keep Bankhead under control and that Bankhead was furious about the situation.

Lizabeth Scott has said that her fondest memory was of Myerberg telling her, "I love you," but the two eventually parted.

When Lizabeth Scott finally went on stage as Sabina, she was surprised by both the approval and fascination of the audience.

When Lizabeth Scott returned home, she found a telegram offering her the lead for the Boston run of The Skin of Our Teeth.

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

Lizabeth Scott invited her to come to Los Angeles and stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

In June 1946, Lizabeth Scott gained the distinction of being the first Hollywood star to visit Britain since the end of World War II.

Lizabeth Scott was there to attend the London premiere of Martha Ivers and do a promotional tour through the country.

At the age of 24, Lizabeth Scott's billing and portrait were equal to Humphrey Bogart's on the film's lobby posters and in advertisements.

Lizabeth Scott again starred with Lancaster, Corey, and Douglas, in Wallis's I Walk Alone, a noirish story of betrayal and vengeance.

Lizabeth Scott played the girl we were involved with in the movie.

Lancaster's behavior toward Lizabeth Scott was chilly, especially during one kissing scene, leaving Lizabeth Scott looking exasperated.

Lizabeth Scott claimed it violated a previous freelance deal, but added that he did not want to work with Scott anymore.

Lizabeth Scott played the ultimate femme fatale in Too Late for Tears, with Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, and Kristine Miller.

On Tuesday, January 25,1949, Lizabeth Scott collapsed and went into hysterics on the RKO set of The Big Steal.

Yet, Lizabeth Scott starred with Mitchum in a RKO film two years later.

Lizabeth Scott later admitted to stage fright, explaining her absence during premieres of her films.

In July 1949, Lizabeth Scott returned to the stage in the title role of Philip Yordan's play Anna Lucasta at the McCarter Theatre, on the campus of Princeton University, New Jersey.

Lizabeth Scott played her third torch-singer role in Dark City, a traditional film noir.

Lizabeth Scott's boyfriend, Danny Haley is a bookie who is the apparent target of a vengeful brother of a dead man whom Haley swindled.

Huxley explored reincarnation and destiny, beliefs which Lizabeth Scott professed in interviews.

Yet, conversely, Lizabeth Scott was a friend and reader of Ayn Rand, an Aristotelian atheist.

Later in 1950, Lizabeth Scott was cast to do the summer-stock version of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke.

In Two of a Kind, Lizabeth Scott portrayed Brandy Kirby, a socialite who seduces a gambler, Michael "Lefty" Farrell, into joining a caper.

Lizabeth Scott played her fourth and last torch-singer role in The Racket, another conventional noir.

Lizabeth Scott returned to Britain in October 1951 to film Stolen Face, a noir that presages Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo by several years.

Later that spring, Lizabeth Scott returned to her beginnings as a comedian when she began work on her first comedy noir, Scared Stiff, with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Lizabeth Scott played an heiress who inherits a haunted castle on Lost Island off the coast of Cuba.

Lizabeth Scott found Lewis' impersonations of her offensive, while a jealous Hal Wallis instructed director George Marshall not to let the romantic scenes between Lizabeth Scott and Martin get too steamy.

In Bad for Each Other, Lizabeth Scott played a decadent heiress who tries to dominate a poor but idealistic physician.

Patricia Neal was originally cast as Helen, but when Lizabeth Scott replaced Neal, Lancaster had to be replaced by Heston.

Lizabeth Scott has no more personality than a model in the window of a department store.

Lizabeth Scott's numbness was the crazed underside of that cinematic energy in the wake of the war.

In July 1956, Johnson reported that Lizabeth Scott was under the management of Earl Mills, who managed the singing career of Dorothy Dandridge.

Lizabeth Scott was planning to debut as a torch singer on the nightclub circuit.

Lizabeth Scott re-emerged from retirement in Loving You, Elvis Presley's second musical.

Undaunted by Paramount's refusal to let her singing be heard, Lizabeth Scott signed a recording contract with Vik Records.

Lizabeth Scott recorded her album with Henri Rene and his orchestra in Hollywood on October 28,29 and 30,1957.

Finally on April 23,1958, Lizabeth Scott made her public singing debut on CBS' The Big Record.

Lizabeth Scott did not work for 20th Century until 1956, when she took part in an episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour.

The Rushmore article further stated that Lizabeth Scott spent her off-work hours with "Hollywood's weird society of baritone babes".

On July 25,1955, two months before the issue's printed publication date, and while the Marlene Dietrich issue was still on the newsstands, Jerry Giesler, Lizabeth Scott's lawyer, initiated a $2.5 million libel suit.

In November 1955, at the age of 33, Lizabeth Scott again went to Britain to film The Weapon.

Since the magazine was domiciled in New York state, and Scott was a California resident who had initiated the suit in her own state, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Leon T David quashed Scott's suit on March 7,1956, on the grounds that the magazine was not published in California.

Lizabeth Scott had begun her career at a time when many established actors were away at war, giving then unknowns like Lizabeth Scott a chance at stardom.

Months later, musician Rexino Mondo was helping Lizabeth Scott decorate her fiance's mansion on Mulholland Drive.

Lizabeth Scott was in his late forties, of medium build, good-looking, with dark hair, a warm personality, and a strong handshake.

Several books have claimed that prior to her relationship with Dugger, Scott was a mistress of renowned film producer Hal B Wallis, who at that time was married to actress Louise Fazenda.

Wallis thought it might be his last chance to offer Lizabeth Scott a starring role in anything.

Lizabeth Scott tended toward secrecy about her personal relationships and publicly disparaged former dates who told all to the press.

Lizabeth Scott made her final film appearance in her second comedy noir, Pulp, alongside Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in a nostalgic pastiche of noir cliches.

Hodges for his part reported that Lizabeth Scott was challenging to work with while shooting and struggled with nerves.

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

Lizabeth Scott continued to date within a close circle of old Hollywood insiders.

Lizabeth Scott appeared on stage at an American Film Institute tribute to Wallis in 1987 and fondly recalled her time with him.

The result was an entire chapter titled "Morning Star", in which the author observed Lizabeth Scott was still able to recite her opening monologue from The Skin of Our Teeth, which she had learned six decades earlier.

Lizabeth Scott died of congestive heart failure at the age of 93 on January 31,2015.

Lizabeth Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1624 Vine Street in Hollywood.