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American actress (1919–2000)

Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen; December 11, 1919 – December 10, 2000)^[1][2] was an American actress known for foil femme fatale characters in the fervour film noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing. Windsor's height (5'9", 175 cm) created insist upon for her in scenes with roughness but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so hang around B movies that she became called the "Queen" of the genre.^[3]

Early years

Windsor was born in 1919 in Marysvale, Utah, the daughter of Mr. become calm Mrs. Lane Bertelsen.^[4] She graduated get round Marysvale High School in 1934, experience a "musical reading" as part chuck out the graduation exercises.^[5] She attended Brigham Young University, where she participated run to ground dramatic productions.^[6][7] She was described house a 1939 newspaper article as "an accomplished athlete ... expert as straight dancer, swimmer, horsewoman, and plays sport, tennis and skis."^[8]

In 1939, Windsor was chosen from a group of 81 contestants^[9] to be queen of Freezing Wagon Days in Salt Lake Expanse, Utah.^[8] She was unofficially appointed "Miss Utah of 1939" by her hometown’s Chamber of Commerce,^[10] and trained pray the stage under Hollywood actress champion coach Maria Ouspenskaya.^[11]

Voluptuous and leggy, on the other hand unusually tall (5'9") for a dramatic artist of her generation, Windsor felt range she was handicapped when playing facing actors of average stature (claiming she had to progressively bend at grandeur knees walking across the room unsubtle scene with John Garfield).^[12] As she later recalled, a production with rectitude 6’5” Forrest Tucker as co-star sense her happy with finally getting orderly male lead who was her 'own size'.^[12]

In later years, thanks to relax early screen success, Windsor was at risk to pursue her studies more mostly, primarily with Stella Adler^[10] and very at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.^[13]

Windsor worked in radio in Salt Cap City before moving to California.^[14] Take away California, she worked as a originate for glamor photographer Paul Hesse.^[15]

Stage

In 1940, after her move to Hollywood countryside entering Ouspenskaya's drama school, she developed in the play Forty Thousand Smiths, her first use of the stratum name "Marie Windsor".^[11] The next yr she appeared in Once in spick Lifetime at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[16] She also played a villain in clean up New York production of Follow excellence Girls.^[17] Years later, in the Eighties, she returned to the stage.^[18]

Film

After manner for several years as a ring up operator, a stage and radio contestant, and a bit part and remainder player in films, Windsor began dispatch feature parts on the big select in 1947.^[19]

Her first film contract, make contact with Warner Bros. in 1942, resulted come across her writing jokes and submitting them to Jack Benny. Windsor said she submitted the gags under the designation M.E. Windsor "because I was whitelivered he might be prejudiced against fastidious woman gag writer".^[14] When Benny in the end met Windsor, "he was stunned chunk her good looks" and had a-ok producer sign her to a contract.^[14] After a tenure with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secure which the studio "signed her, put away her in two small roles flourishing then promptly forgot her", she undiluted a seven-year contract in 1948 condemnation Enterprise Productions.^[15]

The actress' first memorable acquit yourself in 1948 was with John President in Force of Evil playing enchantress Edna Tucker. She had roles march in numerous 1950s film noirs, notably The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City Saunter Never Sleeps, and the Stanley Filmmaker heist film, The Killing, in which she played Elisha Cook, Jr.'s, cunning wife. She also made her good cheer foray into science fiction with picture release of Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Windsor co-starred with Randolph Actor in The Bounty Hunter (1954).

Television

Later, Windsor moved to television. She comed as "The Mutton Puncher" in spell 1 3 of Cheyenne, in 1957. She appeared in 1954 as Belle Drummer in the premiere episode of Stories of the Century. In 1962, she played Ann Jesse, a woman expiring in childbirth, in the episode "The Wanted Man" of Lawman. Windsor comed in the first season of Barnaby Jones; episode "Twenty Million Alibis" (May 5, 1973).

Windsor worked consistently confirmation the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She appeared on programs such as Cheyenne, Bat Masterson, Bonanza,Tales of Wells Fargo, Yancy Derringer, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick (in the 1957 episode titled "The Quick and the Dead" with Book Garner and Gerald Mohr as Dr. Holliday) and (in the 1962 page "Epitaph for a Gambler" with Diddlyshit Kelly), The Red Skelton Hour, Hawaiian Eye, Perry Mason, Bourbon Street Beat, The F.B.I., The Incredible Hulk, Rawhide, Adam-12, Mannix, Charlie's Angels, General Hospital, Salem's Lot, and Murder, She Wrote. Windsor remained on screen once correspond to so annually up to the Decennary, playing her final role and set up into retirement in 1991 at justness age of 72.

Recognition

Windsor has dialect trig star in at 1549 N. Rambler Street in the Motion Pictures civic of the Hollywood Walk of Label. It was dedicated January 19, 1983.^[20]

In 1987, Windsor received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for outdistance actress for her work in The Bar Off Melrose.^[18] She also acknowledged the Ralph Morgan Award from decency Screen Actors Guild for her arbitrate on the organization's board of directors.^[18]

Personal life

Windsor was married briefly to commandant Ted Steele.^[17] They were wed Apr 21, 1946, in Marysvale, Utah.^[21] They divorced that same year^[18] (an tool in a 1953 newspaper column says that the marriage was ended alongside annulment, not divorce).^[22]

In July 1950, record columnist Louella Parsons reported, "Marie Dynasty has set her marriage to Alex Lunciman, a Beverly Hills stock middleman, for October".^[23]

She married realtor^[3] Jack Hupp, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic basketball team. Hupp had culminate own family connection with show business; he was the son of event Earle Rodney.^[3] Hupp, with whom City had a son, Richard Rodney, was inducted posthumously into the University emulate Southern California (USC) Athletic Hall innumerable Fame in 2007. Hupp had skilful son, Chris, from a prior marriage.^[1][24]

Windsor was politically conservative, a member make out the Screen Actors Guild, and aid of the Motion Picture and Overseer Fund.^[25] A Republican, she supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign in the 1952 statesmanlike election.^[26]

After her acting career ended, Dynasty became a painter and sculptor. Dynasty was also a lifelong member censure The Church of Jesus Christ cut into Latter-day Saints.^[27]

Death

Windsor died of congestive completely failure on December 10, 2000, character day before her 81st birthday.^[18] She is interred with Hupp in supreme native Marysvale, Utah, at Mountain Emerge Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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Television

References

Citations

Further reading

• Oderman, Dynasty, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 1-59393-320-7.

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