Lizabeth Scott poses for the camera in front of various photographs of her 1946 vehicle The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, in which she co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Kirk Douglas.
Directed by Lewis Milestone (Best Director Oscar winner for All Quiet on the Western Front), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers was screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ "Oscar Noir" series at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday, June 28, 2010.
Scott, born Emma Matzo (Sept. 29, 1922, in Scranton, Penn.) to Slovakian parents, began her film career as a Paramount contract player in 1945. Her film debut — in a leading role — was in John Farrow’s romantic melodrama You Came Along, in which she was Robert Cummings‘ love interest, a super-sultry gal named Ivy Hotchkiss.
Among Scott’s other vehicles — usually film noirs and/or heavy melodramas in which she played smoldering, husky-voiced heroines that would put both Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake to shame — are Desert Fury (1947), with Burt Lancaster; Pitfall (1948), with Dick Powell; Paid in Full (1950), with Robert Cummings; Dark City (1950) and Bad for Each Other (1953), with Charlton Heston; and The Racket (1951), with Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan.
Lizabeth Scott also played opposite Elvis Presley, in the 1957 melo Loving You.
Her last film appearance was in Mike Hodges‘ crime drama Pulp (1972), which starred Michael Caine and in which she played a character named Princess Betty Cippola.
Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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so good to see a current pic of her…..still has that same “look” in the eyes…but added a great smile…looks in good health (at 88) and having fun….hope your birthday was a happy one…you gave us many hours of entertainment, thank you