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  Lizabeth Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scott's smoky sensuality and husky-voice lent itself to the film noir genre and, beginning with The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin, the studio cast her in a series of thrillers.
Scott was paired with Lancaster, Corey, and Kirk Douglas in Hal Wallis' I Walk Alone (1948), a noirish story of betrayal and vengeance.
Lizabeth Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 1624 Vine Street in Hollywood.
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 Biography for Lizabeth Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In fact Variety claimed she out-acted them bothIn 1947 Scott was paired with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in I Walk Alone (dir: Byron Haskin), a noirish story of betrayal and vengeance.
Scott was again paired with Lancaster in 1947's Desert Fury (dir: Lewis Allen), a story of love, deception and corruption written by Robert Rossen (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers).
Scott looks glorious in Technicolor, but the writing is weak and the film is ultimately stolen by Mary Astor who plays Scott's mother.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0779507/bio   (1587 words)

  
 Lizabeth Scott - Elvis Movie Database
Lizabeth Scott (pictured far right in a scene from Loving You), Born Emma Matzo in 1922 to Slovakian parents, Scott studied at Alvienne School of Drama (NY), and was discovered by Hal Wallis in 1945.
Scott's portrayal stands out in this low budget affair, and helped to solidify her standing as one of the top actors in the noir genre.
By the end of 1949 Scott appeared in nine films, but hadn't achieved the level of stardom and clout that was needed in the studio system to influence the direction of her own career.
www.geocities.com /elvismdb/lizabethscott.html   (1484 words)

  
 Elvis Presley's Loving You - Paramount 1957
Lizabeth Scott played Deke Rivers' manager, Glenda Markle, who was a essentially a female version of Elvis' real-life career manager, Colonel Parker, the supreme promoter.
Scott, a sultry blonde with a husky voice, was discovered by Hal Wallis in 1945 and was often compared with actress Lauren Bacall.
Scott is generally regarded as one of the queens of the "film noir" genre of movies.
www.elvispresley.com.au /elvis/presley/loving_you.shtml   (2334 words)

  
 The Lizabeth Scott Homepage
Born Emma Matzo in 1922 to English-Russian parents, Scott studied at Alvienne School of Drama (NY), and was discovered by Hal Wallis in 1945.
In 1947 Scott was paired with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in I Walk Alone (dir: Byron Haskin), a noirish story of betrayal and vengeance.
In 1957 Scott's film career came to an end with her role in Loving You (dir: Hal Kanter), Elvis Presley's second movie (although she appeared in an offbeat British film Pulp in 1972).
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 Lizabeth Scott at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Scott's smoky sensuality lent itself to the film noir genre, and beginning with The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946; with Barbara Stanwyck), Paramount cast her in a string of thrillers.
But Scott proved to be unlike any of her contemporaries, turning in one solid performance after another.
Ironically, Scott was also dogged by rumors of a relationship with producer Hal Wallis, who was at the time married to comedic actress Louise Fazenda.
www.briansdriveintheater.com /lizabethscott.html   (1193 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: DVD: Barbara Stanwyck,Van Heflin,Lizabeth Scott,Kirk Douglas,Judith ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bacall is just slumming, but Lizabeth Scott seems to belong with the dregs of society--just waiting for some man to rescue her and take her home.
There are good performances from a great cast, none better than Lizabeth Scott's as a girl down on her luck and hoping against the odds for something good to happen.
Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers, Lizabeth Scott as Antonia 'Toni' Marachek, Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil, Judith Anderson as Mrs.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000ANVPVU?v=glance   (3237 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Lizabeth Scott : Biography
Born into the Czech ghetto in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lizabeth Scott attended the Alvienne School of Drama in New York and began her career in stock.
Scott's first break came when she was cast as
There was speculation that Scott would marry Wallis, but this never occurred, and he dropped her option in 1957, effectively ending her movie career.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/56523/bio.jhtml   (207 words)

  
 MOVIE POSTER TALK
Lizabeth Scott was a Warners protegee who was being groomed to be the new Lauren Bacall when Ms Bacall, at the instigation of Mr Bogart, started digging her heels in at the studio about better scripts and roles for her.
Ms Scott cetainly has her own charms, but icy ones to be sure.
I've always liked Lizabeth Scott, and I have to say that I don't think she looks like a bloke in a blonde wig.
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 Two of a Kind (1951 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two of a Kind is a 1951 film starring Edmond O'Brien and Lizabeth Scott.
The film noir was directed by Henry Levin.
The three concoct a sceme to rob a rich couple out of ten million dollars by having O'Brien pose as the couple's long-lost son.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Two_of_a_Kind_(1951_film)   (153 words)

  
 Lizabeth Scott pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Lizabeth Scott pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
She slithered onto movie screens, this smoldering blonde with the husky voice, in the mid 1940s, making a name for herself in the era's burgeoning film noir genre, playing tarnished, world-weary pseudoheroines, cruel and cynical femmes fatales, and-occasionally-susceptible innocents pursued by dangerous men.
Aside from a lead in Pulp (1972), an interesting throwback that played on her appeal as a noir icon, Scott has taken no other film roles.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=1399   (185 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Too Late for Tears -- Byron Haskin - DVD - Black & White
When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists that he keep the dough rather than turn it over to the authorities.
Two-bit private eye Dan Duryea catches on to Scott's subterfuge, and demands that she turn the cash over to him.
Scott persuades Duryea to split the money with her--then, determining that Kennedy might be too honest for everyone's own good, she murders her husband.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?wrk=3628430   (288 words)

  
 It probably happened that Lizabeth Scott has enjoyed this remarkable journey by reading Irish Fashion . Lizabeth Scott ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It probably happened that Lizabeth Scott has enjoyed this remarkable journey by reading Irish Fashion.
Lizabeth Scott thought Irish Fashion to be an interesting thing to read.
Compared to Lizabeth Scott everything is likely to appear as something bad.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy13391.htm   (310 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kirk Douglas and Barbara Stanwyck are very intense in their roles but, in my opinion, Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott steal the show.
Lizabeth Scott plays the beaten-down, always-taken-advantage-of, world-weary, down-on-her-luck, cute, sexy girl that...
In my opinion, this is Lizabeth Scotts' best role that I've seen ("Dead Reckoning" she is also quite good in - "Too Late For Tears" she is not as strong).
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 Lizabeth Scott Tribute by Jeffrey Sward
Lizabeth Scott was an exceptionally fine actress active in the 1940s and 1950s.
Lizabeth was know for extremely idiomatic portrayals of femme fatales in film noir.
Drop Lizabeth a line at 8277 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
www.jeffreysward.com /tributes/ls.htm   (107 words)

  
 Lizabeth Scott @ Filmbug
True or false, rumors and allegations concerning her sexual preferences began.
She charged that in the September issue it was implied that she was "prone to indecent, illegal and highly offensive acts in her private and public life; These implications, Scott said, are willfully, wrongfully, maliciously and completely without truth.", but she lost her case.
Tell us what you think of Lizabeth Scott in the Filmbug forum...
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Paid in Full
Lizabeth Scott and Diana Lynn play sisters whose lives become strangely intertwined in this soap opera-style drama, considered a "woman's picture" in the late 1940s.
Jane Langley (Scott) is in love with the handsome Bill Prentice (Robert Cummings) but selflessly allows her younger sister Nancy (Lynn) to step in, resulting in the more abrasive Nancy marrying Bill.
When Jane accidentally causes the death of the couple's child, she vows to undertake any means in which to repay them, even willing to sacrifice her own health in order to bring another baby into the world, in this emotional tale that successfully captured the female audience in 1950.
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=5998-1-EST   (129 words)

  
 Lizabeth - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com
Doctor Tom Owen (Charlton Heston) returns home after the war, is talked into setting up a plush practice for wealthy patients in the city, and then realizes that his true calling is for ministering to the coal miners in his hometown.
A football player (Victor Mature) risks a heart attack and continues to play his sport for fear that his wife (Lizabeth Scott) will not stay in their marriage if he quits the game.
While driving on a secluded highway, the Palmers—Jane (Lizabeth Scott) and Alan (Arthur Kennedy)—are so intent on their argument that their convertible veers off the road.
www.filmsandtv.com /searchmovie.php?q=Lizabeth   (641 words)

  
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Which is unfortunate, because the film itself is a corker.
Bickering couple Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy accidentally intercept a bagful of cash meant as a flmail payoff.
When Dan Duryea turns up looking for the money he conned fair and square, we learn just how much Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Scott can be.
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 Lizabeth Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born Emma Matzo in 1922 to Slovakian parents, Scott studied at Alvienne...
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 DEAD RECKONING
Here he plays his typical role of a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, who falls for the wrong dame – this time the deeply-voiced Lizabeth Scott – and finds himself in between a rock and a hard place...or in this instance the cops and a crooked casino owner.
Everyone turns out to be exactly who you know them to be: Bogey's the outsider with a heart of gold; Lizabeth Scott is the dame with a dark past who makes men love her, much to their physical detriment; and Carnovsky, plays the evil club owner who's more crooked than the day is long.
What brings it down a peg is the lack of chemistry between Bogey and Scott.
crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsD/f_dead_reckoning.html   (251 words)

  
 Lizabeth Scott Forum @ Filmbug
i fell in love with her on the first time i saw her and today, 16th feb 2006 i watched her in " LOVING YOU" starring elvis but the star was " lizabeth ".
About 4 years ago I did a general search on Lizabeth Scott.
I would also like to know more about Miss Scott.
www.filmbug.com /db/1487-8   (330 words)

  
 Buy Dead Reckoning on DVD @ Gameplanet Store NZ
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane
THE SHADOW OF WORLD WAR II falls over this stateside film noir thriller about a GI paratrooper (Humphrey Bogart) who trails his AWOL war buddy to a treacherous city populated by gamblers, goons, pug cops, and the smoky, suspicious Lizabeth Scott, a seductive femme who may be fatale.
Scott's mannered performance is appropriately ambiguous and the film's cynical edge, ruthless desperation, and tarnished view of small-time hoodlums with big dreams casts a darker shadow unique to Hollywood's postwar funk.
www.gpstore.co.nz /DVDs/1468926.html   (245 words)

  
 Movie Info for I Walk Alone on MSN Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The unlucky Madison is caught and when released from prison 14 years later, he returns to claim his money.
Turner, never intending to split the money, tries to distract Madison by offering him the affections of his girlfriend Kay (Lizabeth Scott).
Wendell Corey is particularly fine as Madison's cowardly brother, who manages to redeem himself, and Lizabeth Scott is touching as the vulnerable, romantic Kay.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=115941   (214 words)

  
 Elvis' Women: Lizabeth Scott
Among film noir connoisseurs, Lizabeth Scott is THE woman!
Quite often the femme fatale, but always the alluring beauty, she seemed to single-handedly carry almost every film she was in.
Meeting Lizabeth Scott - Lizabeth as she appeared in 1999 at a special screening of Desert Fury!
elviswomen.greggers.net /scottlizabeth.htm   (119 words)

  
 KIT*PARKER*FILMS
Plastic surgeon (Paul Henreid) molds the face of a prison inmate's disfigured face (Mary MacKenzie) into the replica of a woman (Lizabeth Scott) who refused to marry him.
And then he marries the inmate, who is also now Lizabeth Scott.
And then the real deal shows up all hot to trot, and the surgeon ain't all that happy to have settled for the replica.
www.kitparker.com /product.php?id=FF00103&num=950   (94 words)

  
 xFLiRT's Xanga Site
After Lizabeth`s dad was finished we went back to her house for awhile.
KiisSez 08: scott i wanna throw a tangerine at her head!
Saturday/Sunday: My dad picked me and lizabeth up from her house and brought us back to my house where we ate, and i took a shower!
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