Trivia

Her sultry looks won her modelling assignments as a teenager and she was understudy to Tallulah Bankhead before coming to the attention of Paramount Studios who put her under contract.

Out of all the films she appeared in she considered her favorite film to have been You Came Along (1945).

During the 1940s, her image was used in magazine adverts for Royal Crown Cola.

In 1957, the sensuous star released an album of torch songs and romantic ballads titled "Lizabeth".

In the 1948 film "Pitfall" - she performed in the role of a fashion model that a married man and insurance investigator, starring actor Dick Powell, could not resist. And in the 1949 film "Too Late for Tears," also starring Dan Duryea, Scott killed not one but two husbands. The film advertising poster for that movie proclaims, "She got what she wanted ... with lies ... with kisses ... with murder!".

From the 1970s until her death, she had been engaged in real estate development and volunteer work for various charities, such as Project HOPE and the Ancient Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Early in her career critics claimed she was imitating Tullulah Bankhead and Lauren Bacall.

Asked in a 1996 interview why film noir had become so popular, Scott said: "The films that I had seen growing up were always, 'Boy meets girl, boy ends up marrying girl, and together, they go off into the sunset' - and suddenly in the 1940s, psychology was taking a grasp on society in America. That's when 'they' got into these psychological, emotional things that people feel. That was the feeling of film noir. ... It was a new realm, something very exiting, because you were coming closer and closer to reality".

Her career was extensively promoted by producer Hall Wallis, over a number of years. Kirk Douglas, who made his film debut in "The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers" with her, claimed in his autobiography that she was Wallis's mistress and that this had made working with her difficult.

In the mid-1950s, the tabloid magazine "Confidential" made allegations of Scott being a lesbian, which was still taboo in those days. The head of "Confidential," notorious anti-Communist Howard Rushmore, despised Scott for openly criticizing the Hollywood blacklist, and attempted to smear her with fake stories about her passionate love affairs with other women.

Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes were given to her longtime friend, Mary Goodstein.

Her 21st birthday party at New York's Stork Club was hosted by Hollywood reporter and press agent, Irving Hoffman.

Was a model for the Walter Thornton Agency.

Campaigned for Ronald Reagan three times during his political career.

Appears in the trailer for Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018) in clips from The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946).

Born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania of Slovakian descent, Scott attended the Alvienne School of Drama in New York City. She worked as a model for Harper's Bazaar and in 1942 landed a role as the understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in Thornton Wilder's Broadway production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" - though the tempestuous Bankhead, who did not get along with Scott, stubbornly never missed a performance. A bit later, with backing from producer Hal Wallis, Scott was signed to a contract at Paramount Pictures. She made her film debut in "You Came Along" (1945) opposite Robert Cummings - Ayn Rand was a co-writer of the screenplay - followed by "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Van Heflin. Her other films included "Desert Fury" (1947) with John Hodiak, "Easy Living" (1949), "Paid in Full" (1950), "The Company She Keeps" (1951) - as an ex-convict - "The Racket" (1951) with Robert Mitchum, "Stolen Face" (1952), "Bad for Each Other" (1953) and "The Weapon" (1956).

Was considered for the female leads in Love Letters (1945) and The Affairs of Susan (1945).

In the 1947 Modern Screen article "Miracle on Main Street", her mother said the Matzo family came to the United States from the city of Ungvár (now known as Uzhhorod), Ukraine.

Lizabeth Scott, who played an aloof and alluring femme fatale in such film noir classics as "I Walk Alone," "Pitfall" and "Dark City" died at the age of 92. Scott, who also starred as a gangster's wife opposite Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Reckoning" (1947), died January 31, 2015, of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her friend Mary Goodstein told the Los Angeles Times. Scott, a sultry blonde with a smoky voice in the mold of Lauren Bacall, played nightclub singers in 1947's "I Walk Alone" opposite Burt Lancaster and in William Dieterle's "Dark City," a 1950 release that marked Charlton Heston's first major Hollywood role. Scott displayed a rarely seen comic touch when she appeared opposite Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the 1953 film "Scared Stiff," and she played a press agent who discovers a young country singer, performed by Elvis Presley, in 1957's "Loving You".

As a celebrity guest on the Nov. 27, 1952 episode of "I've Got Secret", she revealed she had one dimpled knee.

She bore a resemblance to her mother, Mary Pennock Matzo, who was described in a 1947 Modern Screen article as a "kind-faced, motherly woman . . . [with] steely, executive eyes, an unsmiling mouth, strong Slavic features". The article features a photograph of Mrs. Matzo and her other daughter, Justine.

In Italy, Rina Morelli was her official voice, but she was also dubbed by Andreina Pagnani, Tina Lattanzi and Dhia Cristiani in I Walk Alone (1947), Dark City (1950) and Scared Stiff (1953) respectively.