Lizabeth Virginia Scott

 Lizabeth Virginia Scott (September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015)

After performing the Sabina role in the first Broadway and Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged internationally in such films as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Dead Reckoning (1947) with Humphrey Bogart, Desert Fury (1948) with John Hodiak, and Too Late for Tears (1949) with Don DeFore. No other actress has appeared in more film noir. Of her 22 feature films, she was leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s. Her break happened, when she became an understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in the Broadway production of "Skin of Our Teeth" (1942 to 1943). Additionally, she earned extra money as a fashion model. Scott retired from films in 1957 after the Elvis Presley picture "Loving You" and went on to have sparse TV roles. She made a brief comeback in motion pictures with the British film "Pulp" (1972), which starred Michael Caine. Despite all the films she worked on, Scott's favorite was one she never appeared, Doctor Zhivago (1965). Ever the non-conformist, she never stopped living Ralph Waldo Emerson's precept: "Insist on yourself." She died of congestive heart failure at the age of 92 on January 31, 2015.