Elizabeth Threatt(1926-1993)
- Actress
American actress who made an impression in her only film. The daughter
of an English father and a Cherokee mother, Threatt grew up in South
Carolina. At 19, she went to New York and began a successful modeling
career. In 1952, director Howard Hawks saw her photograph and cast her as
the Blackfoot princess Teal Eye in his acclaimed frontier film The Big Sky (1952).
Although she was a notable part of this successful film, Threatt left
the picture business and never acted again.
