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Lizabeth Scott (born September 29, 1922) is an American actress who achieved some success in films, particularly in the genre of film noir. She was born Emma Matzo in the Pine Brook Section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John and Mary Matzo, Roman Catholic immigrants from Slovakia.
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Lizabeth Scott is Jane Palmer, femme fatale in this gritty thriller from the Golden Age of Hollywood noir. Finding $60,000 in hot money, Jane tries to convince her nervous husband (Arthur Kennedy) that they should keep it. When a thug, Danny (Dan Duryea), shows up to claim the cash, she strikes a deal to murder her uncooperative husband and split the dough with him. In a double cross she escapes to Mexico with the entire stash, unaware that she is being trailed by a stranger with an old debt to settle.
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Born Emma Matzo in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1922, gorgeous Lizabeth Scott made her way to New York at an early age. She worked as a model while attending acting school, and by the time she was 20 years old, Scott was an understudy to Tallulah Bankhead. She was spotted by producer Hal B. Wallis, who put her under contract in the mid 1940s. Wallis had just left Warner Brothers and signed a deal with Paramount; therefore, most of Scott's films were released by Paramount. She would remain under contract to Wallis until 1957, when she walked away from the business.
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Housewife Jane Palmer (Lizabeth Scott) thinks her dreams have come true when driving with her husband Alan (Arthur Kennedy) in the Hollywood hills; a package meant for blackmailer Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea) is tossed into their car. This unfortunately puts Danny, a hardboiled con-man, onto Jane's case just as she's trying to convince her husband to keep the loot instead of turn it over to the cops. When Alan refuses to play ball, Jane figures he's expendable and decides to use Danny to get rid of him. only Don may not be who he claims to be.
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The film Bad For Each Other, together with stars Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott and director Irving Rapper, were originally assembled into a package by producer Hal Wallis for Paramount. Shortly thereafter... Wallis found it expedient to sell the whole package to Columbia, though the film still has the "look" of a Paramount "A"-picture. Heston plays poor-but-proud Army doctor Tom Owen, who through the influence of Pittsburgh socialite Helen Curtis (Lizabeth Scott) builds up a posh society practice. Though he's happy with the money and prestige, Dr. Owen is at heart a man of the people, and he'd much prefer tending to the families of the local steel miners. During a moment of extreme crisis, Owen is forced to choose immediately between the life offered him by Helen and the course he knows he should be following. Dianne Foster plays Joan Lasher, the girl Owen left behind when he began pursuing the ice-princess.
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What finally slowed the merry-go-round were lawsuits; Jerry Geisler sued the magazine on behalf of Robert Mitchum for $1 million (U.S.), Lizabeth Scott for $2.5 million. When Harrison lost, he didn't lose big, but the legal grind wore him down. Then California Attorney General Pat Brown got into the fray under the guise of battling smut, and that changed the equation considerably. Since Harrison had been making as much as $500,000 profit per issue, he took his money and sold the magazine. Confidential limped on into the early '70s. Harrison himself died in 1978.
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