Lizabeth Scott (1921-2015)
Lizabeth Scott was an Amercian actress and singer, known as a film noir star during the 1940s and 1950s. She started a career as a model and acted on Broadway before transitioning to films in Hollywood. Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but three.
Some of her most famous roles were in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947, see gifs below), and Too Late for Tears (1949).
Although entertaining public affairs with men, Lizabeth Scott never married and apparently lived as a single woman. She was in the midst of a scandal in 1954 when tabloids claimed she was a lesbian whose name had been listed in "the little black books kept by Hollywood prostitutes". She was also said to have frequented famous lesbian nightclubs in Paris and mingled with Frede, a famous lesbian entertainer.
The film All About Eve (1950) starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter was said to be based on the relationship between Tallulah Bankhead and Lizabeth Scott, which in turn sparked rumours of a romance between them (or was it the other way around?).
