American actress (born 1922)

Lizabeth Scott

Lizabeth Virginia Scott was an American actress, singer, and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, known for her "smoky voice". She was called "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 in films including The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but three.

Born

1922

September 29

Died

2015

Era

1920s

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Lizabeth, in brief

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1922 Born
2015 Died

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1011 Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.
1267 The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.

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The world in 1922

When Lizabeth arrived

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Clarence Ashley 1895– American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1967) Eddie Tolan 1908–1967 American sprinter and educator (born 1908) Enrico Fermi 1901–1954 Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901) Greer Garson 1904–1996 English-American actress (born 1904) Guadalupe Victoria 1786–1843 Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (born 1786) Jim Baxter 1939–2001 Scottish footballer (born 1939) Kevin Durant 1988– American basketball player Ludwig von Mises 1881–1973 Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (born 1881)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1922

Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Cecil H. Underwood 1922–2008 American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993)

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