Brenda Scott
{{short description|American film and television actress (born 1943)}}
{{for|the Detroit City Council member|Brenda M. Scott}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Brenda Scott
| image = File:Brenda Scott 1969.JPG
| caption = Scott in 1969
| birth_name = Brenda J. Smith
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|03|15}}
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1961-2005
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Andrew Prine|1965|1966|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage||1968|1969|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage||1973|1978|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Dean Hargrove|1979}}
}}
}}
Brenda Scott (born March 15, 1943) is an American film and television actress. Her stage name comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald character.{{cite book|last1=Aaker|first1=Everett|title=Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary|date=2017|publisher=McFarland|page=376|isbn=9781476662503|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltUkDwAAQBAJ&dq=brenda+scott+andrew+prine&pg=PA2020}}
Early life
Born Brenda Jean Smith on March 15, 1943 in Cincinnati,{{cite web |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthes'ilverscreen.com/show/665/Brenda+Scott/index.html |title=Brenda Scott |publisher=glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com |accessdate=June 5, 2019}}[https://www.newspapers.com/image/684046899/?clipping_id=171951248 "Cinderella"]. Hollywood Citizen News (Valley Edition). July 30, 1958. p. 10. Retrieved May 8, 2025. "Ageless story returns tomorrow night to the boards of Valley State College Northridge. Above, Brenda Jean Smith of Canoga Park, as the cinder beauty, reaches in vain for elusive glass slipper as Allan Josephsberg of Van Nuys stands at rear, unable to aid." and raised there and in California's San Fernando Valley,[https://www.newspapers.com/image/701584548/?clipping_id=171969803 "Local Beauty Featured in 'Look' Article"]. The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet. March 22, 1962. p. 15. Retrieved May 8, 2025. "Sharing the limelight with six other attractive young television actresses in a current Look magazine illustrated feature titled "TV's Beauties" is talented Brenda Smith, 19, graduate of Reseda High School, who is known professionally as Brenda Scott. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey E. Smith, Brenda has had parts in three movies, and appears in such television shows as 'The Detectives,' 'Dr.
Ben Casey,' 'My Three Sons,' 'Window on Main Street,' 'Hazel,' and others. Currently, she is being considered by a leading studio for roles in two movies. Miss Scott, who holds the title of honored Queen of Job's Daughters Bethel 254 of Reseda, studied drama at Reseda High and San Fernando Valley State College where she appeared in "Cinderella.' Her drama training started at the age of 5 at the Schuester Martin School of Drama in Cincinnati—a school founded by the aunt of the late movie star Tyrone Power. She later studied under Stella Rae of Van Nuys."Potter, Merle (July 23, 1955). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/580644347/?clipping_id=171961835 "Playbox Theatre in V.N. Made From Chicken Coop]. Valley Times. p. 8. Retrieved May 8, 2025. "ON WAY TO STELLAR heights are Brenda Smith (above) and Paulette Brown in 'The Streets of New York,' at Playbox Theatre in Van Nuys." Scott is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey E. Smith. At age 5, she began her studies at the Schuester-Martin School of Drama in Cincinnati; she later attended Reseda High School and Valley State College, Northridge.
Career
Scott appeared in films such as The Hanged Man (1964); Johnny Tiger (1966); Journey to Shiloh (1968) and Simon, King of the Witches (1971).{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12021191/|title=Making Occult Movies Can Turn You Into a Believer|last=Kleiner|first=Dick|date=27 December 1970|work=The Corpus Christi Caller-Times|access-date=29 June 2017|via=Newspapers.com}} Her television credits include Rawhide, Gunsmoke (as crippled woman “Betsey Burgess“ in “Anybody Can Kill A Marshall” - S8E26), Alias Smith and Jones, Hawaii Five O, Mannix, Ironside, Mr. Novak, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, Window on Main Street, Run for Your Life, Wagon Train, 77 Sunset Strip, Dragnet 1967, The Fugitive, Simon & Simon, The Virginian, Lancer, Cade's County, Temple Houston and Here Come the Brides.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/64042/Brenda-Scott/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929020046/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/64042/Brenda-Scott/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-09-29|department=Movies & TV Dept.|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2013|title=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-02-12}} Scott said, "I started out playing neurotic types because they decided I had a waif-like face."{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12021038/|title=No Togetherness for Brenda Scott|date=26 October 1969|work=Progress Bulletin|access-date=29 June 2017|via=Newspapers.com}}
Scott shared that she had wanted to act since she was a child and that during her teen years she believed in palmistry and astrology.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12020941/|title=Brenda Scott Once Looked to the Stars|date=24 October 1966|work=The Daily Herald|access-date=29 June 2017|via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Scott was married to fellow actor Andrew Prine, who played her brother in The Savage Land. Scott and Prine started living separately after only being married for four months.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12021252/|title=Brenda Scott Fixes Dinner For Estranged Husband|last=Scott|first=Vernon|date=5 March 1967|work=The Times Recorder|access-date=29 June 2017|via=Newspapers.com}} Prine and Scott were divorced in 1969.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12021130/|title=Divorce Pleaded by Brenda Scott|date=25 March 1969|work=The Lincoln Star|access-date=29 June 2017|via=Newspapers.com}} They would marry and divorce three times over the course of their lives.
Since 1979, Scott has been married to Dean Hargrove.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778906/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Brenda Scott IMDB Database]
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External links
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Cincinnati