Description: Lizabeth Scott (September 29, 1922 - January 31, 2015) was an American actress and singer. She was born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six siblings born to Ruthenian parents who had emigrated from Slovakia, in what is present-day Uzhhorod, Ukraine, whose surname may originally have been "Motzas". She attended Central High School and Marywood College (now Marywood University). 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 Ba Lizabeth Scott (September 29, 1922 - January 31, 2015) was an American actress and singer.

She was born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six siblings born to Ruthenian parents who had emigrated from Slovakia, in what is present-day Uzhhorod, Ukraine, whose surname may originally have been "Motzas". She attended Central High School and Marywood College (now Marywood University).

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.

Despite some rumored romances, no positive records of a relationship exist, and Scott is believed to have never married. She has no children. At least one book has claimed she was a mistress of married film producer Hal Wallis.

While she continued to make some guest appearances on various television shows throughout the 1960s, much of her private time was dedicated to classes at the University of Southern California. Scott made her final film appearance in Pulp (1972), an affectionate pastiche of noirs co-starring Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney. Since then she has kept away from public view and declined most interview requests.

She did, however, appear on stage at an American Film Institute tribute to Hal Wallis in 1987. In 2001, she was listed as one of the celebrity guests for the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special, which screened in the USA on CBS. More recently, she was photographed next to an image of herself on the poster for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers at the AMPAS Centennial Celebration for Barbara Stanwyck on 16 May 2007. She recently attended another screening of the film on June 28, 2010 as part of AMPAS's "Oscar Noir" series at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.[citation needed]

In 2003, Scott spoke substantially to Bernard F. Dick about her time in films for his biography of producer Hal Wallis. In the book, the author remarks that during his conversation with Scott in a restaurant, Scott (around 80 or 81) was still able to recite her opening monologue from The Skin of Our Teeth, which she had learned many decades earlier but never had the chance to perform on Broadway as Bankhead's understudy.

Lizabeth Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures at 1624 Vine Street in Hollywood. ... (more)