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Lizabeth Scott 1996 Interview Part 4 of 8
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2011
- Lizabeth Scott 1996 Interview Part 4 of 8. Videographed by Luke Sacher, interviewed by Carole Langer at Janet Leigh's home in 1996.
Lizabeth Scott (born September 29, 1922) is an American actress and singer widely known for her film noir roles.
She was born Emma Matzo (some sources mistakenly give her family name as "Motzas") in the Pine Brook section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six children, to Ruthenian parents who had emigrated from Uzhgorod, in what is now Ukraine. 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.
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 was needed back at the theatre. She went on in the leading role of "Sabina", receiving a nod of approval from critics at the age of 20. The following night, George was out again and Scott went on in her place.
Soon afterward, Scott was at the Stork Club when film producer Hal Wallis asked who she was, unaware that an aide had already arranged an interview with her for the following day. When Scott returned home, however, she found a telegram offering her the lead for the Boston run of The Skin of Our Teeth. She could not turn it down. She sent Wallis her apologies and went on the road.
Though the Broadway production, in which she was credited as "Girl", christened her "Elizabeth", she dropped the "e" the day after the opening night in Boston, "just to be different".
A photograph of Scott in Harper's Bazaar magazine was seen by film agent Charles Feldman. He admired the fashion pose and took her on as a client. Scott made her first screen test at Warner Brothers, where she and Wallis finally met. Though the test was bad, the producer recognized her potential. As soon as Wallis set up shop at Paramount, she was signed to a contract. Her film debut was in You Came Along (1945) opposite Robert Cummings.
Paramount publicity dubbed Scott "The Threat," in order to create an onscreen persona for her similar to Lauren Bacall or Veronica Lake. 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 noir thrillers. Film historian Eddie Muller has noted that no other actress has appeared in so many noir films, with more than three quarters of her 20 films qualifying.[2]
Don DeFore and Lizabeth Scott in a promotional still from Too Late for Tears.
The dark blonde actress was initially compared to Bacall because of a slight resemblance and a similar voice, even more so after she starred with Bacall's husband, Humphrey Bogart, in the 1947 noir thriller Dead Reckoning. At the age of 25, Scott's billing and portrait were equal to Bogart's on the film's lobby posters and in advertisements. The film was the first of many femme fatale roles for Scott.
She also starred in Desert Fury (1947), a noir filmed in Technicolor, with John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey and Mary Astor. In it, she played Paula Haller, who, on her return from college, falls for gangster Eddie Bendix (Hodiak), and faces a great deal of opposition from the others. Scott was paired with Lancaster, Corey and Kirk Douglas in Wallis' I Walk Alone (1948), a noirish story of betrayal and vengeance. In 1949, she starred as a vicious femme fatale in Too Late for Tears. The film is unusual for featuring her as the main character, rather than the supporting role most women were relegated to in film noirs of the period.
Having being known professionally as Lizabeth Scott for 4½ years, she appeared at the courthouse in Los Angeles, on October 20, 1949 and had her name legally changed. Another courtroom appearance came several years later, in 1955, when she sued Confidential magazine for stating that she spent her off-work hours with "Hollywood's weird society of baritone babes" (a euphemism for a lesbian) in an article which claimed Scott's name was found on the clients' list belonging to a call-girl agency. The suit was dismissed on a technicality. After completing Loving You in 1957, Elvis Presley's second film, Scott retired from the screen. Later that year, she recorded her album, Lizabeth. The next few years saw Scott occasionally guest-star on television, including a 1963 episode of Burke's Law.
A great actress. An even greater person. What a treat this interview is!
Took the words out of my mouth !
Just discovered these interviews. Always liked her as an actress, now I can say that I like her as a person also. So down to earth and genuine.
Thanks for watching- and your kind words
She seems so much more interesting than her movie characters. It's a shame a role wasn't written to capture her wonderful spirit and intellect. Her answers are so mature and respectful to the topics, as well as to the interviewer. What a great lady.
Well said and well put. What a class act she was! Wonderfully intelligent & articulate!
Wonderful interview - what a classy, charming and well-spoken woman! A credit to her gender and her craft.
Thanks very much!
Luke Sacher
(videographer of this interview)
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
I could listen to her talk forever. I liked that whole part toward the end about character motivation and choosing parts.
Jake Drew Classic Broadway training... real theater. :)
Likewise, I'm sure (as Snagglepuss would say). Love her voice. Could listen to her all day & all night long!
these people were genuinely special from this era.. this women particularly so.. she was so luminous in her roles... and that voice.. I bet she broke a lot of hearts on set
She was something really special.
That's for sure !!
These interviews are wonderful. Ms. Scott is so very well spoken, clearly well read with a vocabulary you don't hear much of these days! And that mid-Atlantic accent is rare to hear. I just watched The Strange Love of Miss Ivers and came across these interviews! Thank you for making and posting them.
Scott’s beauty was truly breathtaking. It’s a rare beauty, combined with her acting ability, that makes me want to just watch her move and speak. I’ve seen her in “Dead Reckoning” and “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers”. This interview showed how intelligent, articulate, and perceptive she was as well. I’ve felt a tinge of sadness knowing I’ll never meet her, which is kind of silly, but oh well. I’ll keep watching her films.
What a marvelously gracious, intelligent, beautiful woman. I love the films I have seen her in. How wonderful that she consented to this interview. It proves how very professional she is. My only crtique is that the interviewer should have spoken less, asked more brief questions of this very lovely star and allow her to do most of the talking and explaining about her career.
Hello- Lizabeth only consented to the interview because it was at Janet's house... she was a bit nervous, so we talked a bit more to take the pressure off a bit. Also, this is raw unedited footage- we'd have only used 15 to 20 second on-camera statements in any finished program.
I absolutely agree with your comments here,
@Betsy Kerner agreed. I thought the same thing.
My favorite actress of all time nothing up today stuff even compares.
Liked the interview and her. Her assessment that to her “everyone” in Hollywood that she experienced was “kind and good” did give me pause.
I love her husky voice. Its mesmerising.
It truly is !!
@tyjeffries "generosity of spirit "....took the words right out of my mouth . An excellent woman !
Such a beautiful woman and great actress. I would have loved to hear her talk a little about the fabulous Carmen Miranda who was in Scared Straight too.
Thank you for tuning in and for your kind words, Hedy! :) She gave me a big kiss when we were wrapped... knock me over with a feather...We have many exclusive interviews on our channel with some of the greatest stars of the Golden Age- all friends of my "auntie" Janet Leigh. :) Hope that you enjoy them!
ur so lucky to have been close to janet.
she seemed quite wonderful...
Team Lizabeth. This individual is a complete class act.
marvelous havin an interviewer so knowledgable.
good stuff.
i always had a crush on her. seeing how articulate she was only enhanced my feelings for her. ohhhh liz!!!
Lol the interviewer is modern women in a nutshell, she keeps trying to convince Lizabeth that she was oppressed in the 40s and like almost all women from back then would completely call this bullshit because they were not even remotely "oppressed" but the interviewer is like "no i don't care what you're saying, you're oppressed" you just couldn't make it up, feminists are the only ones oppressing women of the past. Lizabeth is from the last generation of real women hence why she is classy, ladylike and has respect for men and doesn't victimize herself to earn brownie points, my god how amazing women used to be and how far they have fallen, I am ashamed to be a woman in 2022.
The interviewer is a clown. She also talks too much.
I understand that Ms Scott made one album, entitled "Lizabeth" made in 1958. iTunes has nothing to purchase by Ms Scott. I can't find the album or anyway to download it.
It is a shame, because that throaty voice is absolutely enthralling.
Some of her songs are here at youtube. And there's footage of her singing as a guest star on Patti Page's TV show. I LOVED her singing! Wish that part of her career had been more successful.
Ahhh interesting, the only director she didn’t get along with , John Farrow. Well he was actress, Mia Farrow’s father. Mia Farrow is an outstanding actress and human. But it’s clear she got her break into acting becos of her father. And of course the fact that she married Frank Sinatra very early in her life. That marriage ended when she refused to turn down the lead in Roman Polanski’s movie, Rosemary’s Baby. The storyline of that movie horrified Sinatra, and he apparently shouted at Mia, ‘when Ma finds out you’re Makin a movie about the devil she’ll go crazy’. Was Sinatra a Catholic mama’s boy? Yup. Quite abit.
MANY people tangled with John Farrow and found him to be everything from difficult to cruel to impossible... 😒