Editing Martha Scott (section)

===Film===
[[File:Martha Scott as Yochabel in The Ten Commandments trailer.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Scott as [[Moses]]' mother, [[Jochebed|Yochabel]], in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956)]]
Two years later, Scott reprised the role of Emily in her film debut when ''[[Our Town (1940 film)|Our Town]]'' was made into a movie. Her critically acclaimed performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].

Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in major epics such as ''The Ten Commandments'', ''Ben-Hur'', ''[[The Desperate Hours (1955 film)|The Desperate Hours]]'', and ''[[Airport 1975]]''. [[Charlton Heston]] was a frequent co-star with Scott on both stage and screen. As she told an interviewer in 1988, "I played his mother twice and his wife twice. I was his mother in ''Ben Hur'' and ''The Ten Commandments''. I was his wife on the stage in New York in ''Design for a Stained Glass Window'' and ''The Tumbler in London''."<ref name="Breaking"/>