Elizabeth Scott

Elizabeth Louise Scott was born on November 17 1915 at St Marylebone, London, the eldest child of Dr. Sebastian Scott, a radiologist. After attending Upper Chine School on the Isle of Wight, Scott won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She embarked upon a brief but successful career on the stage and screen. A blonde sultry beauty, she resembled Veronica Lake (1922-1973), Lana Turner (1921-1995) and the similarly named Lizabeth Scott (born 1922). The British actress is sometimes confused with Elizabeth Jean Scott (1906-2001), the mother of director Ridley Scott, as well as Lizabeth Scott. Scott joined the Denham Film Studios in 1937 and appeared in Alexander Korda's Rembrandt (1936) and the film noir The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940). At the Warner Brothers Teddington Studios in London, Scott was the second leading lady in her second film noir, Fingers (1941). Though Scott had a contract with Warner Brothers in Hollywood, she did not to come to California due to the war. After her marriage to Graham Hoare, she continued to act as a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company until the birth of her children. At the end of the war Scott and her husband took over Watts & Company, a textiles and wallpaper manufacturer. For years Betty Hoare had retrieved embroidery discarded by churches and convents. In 1992 her collection was accepted by Liverpool Cathedral, a church designed by her uncle, Giles Gilbert Scott.