Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor

actress, soundtrack

Marie Windsor was born on Dec 11, 1919 in USA. Marie Windsor's big-screen debut came with Unexpected Uncle directed by Peter Godfrey in 1941. Marie Windsor is known for Manhunter directed by Walter Grauman, Ken Howard stars as Dave Barrett and Gary Lockwood as Frank Clinger. The most recent award Marie Windsor achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new movie Marie Windsor plays is Commando Squad which will be released on Jun 16, 1988.

Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen) was born in Marysvale, Utah, and attended Brigham Young University. She trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya before she began playing leading roles in B pictures in the late 1940s. So many B films in fact, that she garnered the title of 'Queen of the Bs'.She was a talent - to paraphrase a cliché - of the right type and the right time. If film noir could have manufactured an archetype, it would most definitely have been Marie.With Ms Windsor's bedroom eyes ('they didn't fit for a 'goody-goody wife, or a nice little girlfriend' ) she smouldered on screens, in scenes with John Garfield, and many others, in some of her best work. Marie's femme fatale (Ms Windsor was later quoted as saying a femme fatale is '...usually the woman who gets the man into bed... then into trouble') was on screen, most notably her role as the manipulative, double-crossing wife of Elisha Cook Jr. in L'ultime razzia (1956) (which earned her "Look" magazine's Best Supporting Actress award).Marie later said she loved playing them because they're '... the type of character audience's never forget'.Some of her favourites amongst her own films, in addition to L'ultime razzia (1956), are L'énigme du Chicago Express (1952) and Hellfire (1949).Marie married was married twice before she met Jack Hupp, a realtor with whom she had a son. After retiring from films, Marie took up sculpting and painting.Marie passed away one day before her 81st birthday. She's interred with her husband in her hometown.Marie said audience's 'loved to hate her', and this is only partially true; audience's love Ms Windsor for the dynamism she portrayed, and as film noir gains new fans every day - more than 3/4 of a century since their heyday, it's a love affair which shows no signs of abating.

  • Birthday

    Dec 11, 1919
  • Place of Birth

    Marysvale, Utah, USA

Known For

Awards

2 wins & 0 nominations

Golden Boot Awards
1984
Winner - Golden Boot
Walk of Fame
1983
Motion Picture
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame

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