Elizabeth Coyote Threatt (April 12, 1926 – November 22, 1993) was an American model and actress, best known for her starring role in
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
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's 1952 film ''
The Big Sky'', where she is in a love triangle with
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in ''The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Do ...
and
Dewey Martin. It was her only film appearance, and all dialogue spoken by Threatt was in the depicted Native American language. She was spotted by Howard Hawks and cast for the part of an Indian princess being returned to her home by white traders to help a trade deal. Threatt left the film industry (and acting) after this one film.
Elizabeth Coyote Threatt was born in
Kershaw, South Carolina
Kershaw is a town in Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. It was incorporated in 1888. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,803, and as of 2019 the estimated population was 2,321. The Haile Gold Mine, where gold was discovered ...
on April 12, 1926, the daughter of William Threatt, a Cherokee Indian employed by the US army, and his wife, Bessie Pearl Furr.
She died in Concord, North Carolina aged 67.
Filmography
* ''
The Big Sky'' (1952)
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1926 births
1993 deaths
People from Kershaw, South Carolina
American actresses
20th-century American women
20th-century American people