Lizabeth Scott (born September 29, 1922) is an American actress who achieved much success within the film noir genre, as well as other mainstream films and music.
She was born Emma Matzo (some sources state her birth name as "Emma Motzas") in the Pine Brook section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John and Mary Matzo, Roman Catholic immigrants from Slovakia. She attended Central High School and Marywood College.
She later went to New Yo...
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Lizabeth Scott (born September 29, 1922) is an American actress who achieved much success within the film noir genre, as well as other mainstream films and music.
She was born Emma Matzo (some sources state her birth name as "Emma Motzas") in the Pine Brook section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John and Mary Matzo, Roman Catholic immigrants from Slovakia. She attended Central High School and Marywood College.
She later went to New York City and attended the Alvienne School of Drama. In late 1942, she was eking out a precarious living with a small Midtown Manhattan summer stock company when she got a job as understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth. However, Scott never had an opportunity to substitute for Bankhead.
When Miriam Hopkins was signed to replace Bankhead, Scott quit and returned to her drama studies and some fashion modeling. She then received a call that Gladys George, who was signed to replace Hopkins, was ill, and Scott...
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