Hollywood mourns the loss of Pippa Scott

Pippa Scott, the red-haired beauty who made her unforgettable film debut as Lucy, the niece of John Wayne’s character in  The Searchers, has passed away at the age of 90.

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According to her daughter Miranda Tollman, Pippa died peacefully of congenital heart failure on May 22 at her home in Santa Monica.

Scott’s death marks the end of a remarkable life in Hollywood — one defined not just by her performances alongside icons like Rosalind Russell and Dick Van Dyke, but also by her decades of activism that would come to define the second act of her life.

Born in Beverly Hills on November 10, 1934, Pippa Scott was Hollywood royalty from the start. Her given name was Philippa, but as a child, she kept mispronouncing it as “Pippa”— and before long, the nickname stuck while her full name faded into the background.

Her father, Allan Scott, was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics like Top Hat and Swing Time. Her mother, Laura Straub, was also part of the entertainment world — a stage actress who helped spark Pippa’s passion for performing from a young age.

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And her uncle, Adrian Scott, was one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten — an early signal of the values that would shape her later activism.

As you can tell, talent ran in the family — so it was no surprise that Pippa would eventually find her place in the spotlight and build a career on the silver screen.

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