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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 her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but three. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.
Early life
[edit]Emma Matzo (Ema Macová in Slovak) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,[7][8] the oldest of six children born
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From the Shards to the Stars: Remembering Lizabeth Scott
Louise Gold seeks out the truth about noir icon Lizabeth Scott, who would have turned 100 today.
In November 2009 former film noir icon Lizabeth Scott was pulled over in her Jaguar on Sunset Boulevard for endangering traffic by driving too slowly.
The elderly lady produced her driver’s license and registration. The police officer noticed her pasted-over date of birth. When he tried to peel off the sticker, she looked at him, took the license from his hand, and said, “Believe me, Officer. I’m old enough to drive!”
She got off with a warning. And her secret was not revealed. At least not by that policeman.
Scott’s executor, Mary, told me this story in 2017, two years after the actress’s death. I held Scott’s long-expired passport in my hands, her DOB untampered with: September 29, 1921.
Just as an archaeologist recognizes at first glance a pottery shard with scribbles on it as an ostracon, seeing this fragment of Scott’s life evoked a string of realizations.
All her life she had made herself a year younger than she actually was. She thought it likely that the young cop knew who Lizabeth Scott was. And even at the age of 87 — pardon me, 88 — she stuck rigidly to the bitter lesson she had learned as a Holly
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