This sultry stage-trained blonde actress began her career in stock and as a model. Lizabeth Scott first earned notice as Tallulah Bankhead's understudy as Sabina in the 1942 Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth". Producer Hal Wallis spotted the alluring beauty and brought her to Hollywood. Her first role was an escort assigned to pilots on a war bond tour in the effective "You Came Along" (1945). Promoted as a cross between Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall, Scott proved effective as femme fatales in several noir films ranging from a wrongfully-accused woman in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) to a memorable turn opposite Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Reckoning" (1947). Two of her best roles were the seductive other woman who embarks on an affair with family man Dick Powell in Andre de Toth's "Pitfall" (1948) and as Victor Mature's ambitious wife in "Easy Living" (1949). Although she continued to work into the 50s opposite some of Hollywood's best actors (e.g., Robert Mitchum, Alan Ladd), Scott found herself typecast as the good girl gone bad. "Stolen Face" (1952) offered the actress a dual role as a concert pianist who rejects plastic surgeon Paul Henreid and the convict whose features Henreid refashions into his lost love. Atypical was her turn as an heiress who inherits a Caribbean island that may be haunted in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis farce "Scared Stiff" (1953).
In 1955, Scott successfully sued the tabloid magazine CONFIDENTIAL over its allegations regarding her sexual orientation. Even though she won the suit, the damage to career was done. Scott only appeared in two more features, including co-starring with Elvis Presley in "Loving You" (1957), before she retired from moviemaking. Subsequently, Scott lent her distinctive vocals to occasional TV commercials and made a one-shot return to films as Mickey Rooney's ex-wife in the underrated crime satire "Pulp" (1972).