Someone kind who knows you treasure, any simple little pleasure

We have another centenary to celebrate today, dear reader - that of the beautiful Lizabeth Scott - understudy to Tallulah Bankhead, one-time rival to Veronica Lake, star of hundreds of movies alongside the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Robert Ryan, Dick Powell, Victor Mature, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball and Michael Caine, and quite possibly a lady lesbian (she was "outed" by scandal-rag Confidential in the 40s, and indeed she never married)...

As I observed in my tribute to her on her 90th birthday - she also sang! Admittedly, in the final cut of Either It's Love or It Isn't from the 1947 movie Dead Reckoning her voice was dubbed by Trudy Stevens, but that practice was very common in films then:

Lizabeth Scott (dubbed by Trudy Stevens) - Either It's Love or It Isn't

However she did release an album (Lizabeth, 1957) that proved she was actually a great vocalist:

Lizabeth Scott - It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House

Love her.

Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo, 29th September 1922 – 31st January 2015)

Lollipops!

We're still in recovery mode from our week in Spain (although, unlike my better half, I do have another whole week's leave to go). Unusually I have brought nothing new - music-wise - back from "the land of gaudy tackiness" this time. We basically spent all week in bars whose musical soundtrack was MOR to say the very least.

Instead, on this Tacky Music Monday I thought I would pay further tribute to the lovely Lizabeth Scott, who died last week. Here she is, in the remarkably odd company of Patti Page and Gracie Fields(!), and their - ahem - interesting version of the bubblegum-pop hit, Lollipop:

Patti Page, Lizabeth Scott, Gracie Fields - Lollipop

Have a great week, daahlings!

A noir survivor

A rare survivor of the classic film noir era, the beautiful Lizabeth Scott - understudy to Tallulah Bankhead, one-time rival to Veronica Lake, star of hundreds of movies alongside the likes of Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Robert Ryan, Dick Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas, Elvis Presley and Michael Caine, and quite possibly a lady lesbian (she was "outed" by scandal-rag Confidential in the 40s, and indeed she never married) - is 90 years old today.

She also sang! Admittedly, in the final cut of Either It's Love or It Isn't from the 1947 movie Dead Reckoning her voice was dubbed by Trudy Stevens, but that practise was very common in films then:

Lizabeth Scott (dubbed by Trudy Stevens) - Either It's Love or It Isn't

However she did release an album (Lizabeth, 1957) that proved she was actually a great vocalist:

Lizabeth Scott - It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House

Many happy returns!

Lizabeth Scott on Wikipedia

Lizabeth Scott's comments on modern style icons