Lizabeth Scott, an actress best known for her roles in several film noir classics, has died. She was 92.
Scott died back on Jan. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her longtime friend, Mary Goldstein, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. Goldstein said that the cause of death was congestive heart failure.
Scott had dreams of becoming a stage actress, but her sultry looks got her typecast in Hollywood as a femme fatale. It was a role she excelled at in films like Dead Reckoning, I Walk Alone, Pitfall and Too Late For Tears.
Other important titles on her resume include The Strange Love of Martha Ivers with Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas, The Racket with Robert Mitchum, Loving You with Elvis Presley and Desert Fury with John Hodiak.
She even recorded an album called Lizabeth in 1957.
As the Hollywood Reporter notes, she made her final film in 1972, appearing in Michael Caine’s Pulp with Mickey Rooney.
Scott was born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is survived by her brother and sister.
“I loved making films,” Scott told filmmaker Carole Langer in 1996. “There was something about that lens that I adored, and it adored me back. So we were a great combination.”