I don't think Scott quite "aged out," though she certainly would have had she tried to stay in the big screen world much longer. She was only 34-35 when she retired, and she retained a large portion of her looks into her early 40s (as the link to the YouTube Burke's Law episode from the mid-sixties demonstrates). I just think she had such a limited range that when the vogue for film noir waned, she had little to no fallback position. And she was greatly vexed by the lesbian rumors, so much so that she decided to sue when Wallis and others urged her not to. The inconclusive outcome of the lawsuit was a significant contributing factor in making up her mind to retire, as Hughes relates in LUNCH WITH LIZABETH.
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