Lizabeth Scott

In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall explained how, after making the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, she was discovered by Howard Hawks and put under contract by Warner Brothers in a legendary film where she met her husband Humphrey Bogart: To Have and HaveNot.

You may not remember her, but a few years later, a young lady with very similar characteristics was launched by Paramount in a Hal Wallis production. Since the vamp at her studio was Veronica Lake, she was marketed as a kind of clone, even though she was closer in looks to Lauren Bacall and even played opposite Humphrey Bogart. Yet, even if she played mostly in the film noir genre, she had an interesting career all her own. Her name was Lizabeth Scott. She is still alive today, although she made her last film in 1972.

I strongly suggest you buy her second film, which was recently released on Blu-ray called The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. The transfer is a little soft due to DNR but the film still looks good and is definitely worth a look.

Confidential magazine once printed a story hinting that she was a lesbian. She sued, along with other stars like Robert Mitchum and Maureen O’Hara. You can read more about that in this article.

I’d like to share a page from a Belgian magazine called Ciné Revue dated August 31, 1951 regarding the release of the film Dark City (also available on Blu-ray), with a young Charlton Heston in one of his first roles. His love interest in the film is Lizabeth Scott, a nightclub singer who performs the standard “That Old Black Magic” in a fairly straightforward yet poignant fashion. Although Lizabeth later cut her own record album, she is dubbed here by Trudy Stevens.

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