Lizabeth Virginia Scott (September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American film actress, known for her "smoky voice" and "the most beautiful face of
film noir during the 1940s and 1950s." After understudying the role of Sabina in the original 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),
Dead Reckoning (1947),
Desert Fury (1947) and
Too Late for Tears (1949). 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.