Why had I never Heard of her Before, she was Beautiful and I completely fell in love with her a, specially her amazing strange voice, she reminded me Little bit of Lauren Bacall. The perfect femme fatale. I wonder why she never became as big star as Barbara Stanwyck. I didn't feel anything for Stanwycks character but Scott really gave something sopecial with her small part.
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It might've been nice to see her in "bigger," more famous things, but I actually think she had a good, if not outright, terrific career, because she got to be in a number of terrific movies and give a number of terrific performances -- and because I often like "smaller" movies more than big ones, anyway.
I especially like Jacques Tourneur's Easy Living (not the same-name comedy) and her performance in it. It's a really underrated drama about aging football hero Victor Mature (surprisingly good) having to face that he can't make it in the game anymore. Scott is his money-grubbin', high-life-livin' wife, and she's great.
Also: Pitfall, Dead Reckoning, I Walk Alone. These are films I feel right at home with. I DVR'd Too Late for Tears and am looking forward to seeing it. There are several others I'm very much wanting to see, too.
Matthew
It's hard to find, but if you've never seen it, Desert Fury, with Scott as tough-as-nails Mary Astor's rebellious daughter (one of my favorite Astor performances) is an intriguing "Techincolor noir" (yes, I believe there is such a thing) full of secrets and subtext, with John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey in support.
Poe! You are...avenged!
It may have been her smokers voice. It was perfect for noirs, which was pretty much all she was type cast for, but not many other parts.
shareShe was twenty-three when "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" was filmed. Even if she started smoking as a teenager, she couldn't have been smoking long enough to develop a "smoker's voice". The voice you hear in the movie was the voice she would have had whether or not she smoked.
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