Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor
Windsor in 1954.
Born	Emily Marie Bertelsen December 11, 1919(1919-12-11) Marysvale, Utah
Died	December 10, 2000(2000-12-10) (aged 80) Beverly Hills, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1941-1991
Spouse	Ted Steele (1946) annulled 1 step son Jack Hupp (1954-2000) (her death) 1 child

Marie Windsor (December 11, 1919 - December 10, 2000). Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). However, other actresses, such as Fay Wray, Lucille Ball, and others have garnered the title as well.^[1]

Career

Windsor, a former Miss Utah, trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya, and after several years as a telephone operator, a stage and radio actress, and a bit and extra player in films, she began playing feature and lead parts in 1947.^[2]

The 5'9" actress's first memorable role was opposite John Garfield in Force of Evil playing seductress Edna Tucker. Windsor also had large roles in film noirs including The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps and Stanley Kubrick's heist movie The Killing playing Elisha Cook Jr.'s scheming wife.

Later she moved on to television, appearing on such shows as Maverick (in episodes "The Quick and the Dead" with James Garner and "Epitaph for a Gambler" with Jack Kelly), Bat Masterson (in "The Fighter") opposite Gene Barry, The Incredible Hulk, General Hospital, Murder, She Wrote, Rawhide ("Incident on the Edge of Madness"), and Salem's Lot.

After her acting career she became a painter and sculptor. She died of undisclosed causes on the day before her 81st birthday.

She was one of the 500 stars nominated to become one of the 50 greatest American screen legends as part of the American Film Institute's 100 years.

She married twice, first briefly to bandleader Ted Steele,^[3] and later to Jack Hupp, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic basketball team. Hupp, with whom Windsor had a son, was posthumously inducted into the University of Southern California (USC) Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.^[4] The couple is interred in Marysvale, Utah.

Filmography

All American Co-Ed (1941)[5] Playmates (1941) Eyes in the Night (1942) The Big Street (1942) Smart Alecks (1942) The Lady or the Tiger? (1942) Call Out the Marines (1942) Four Jacks and a Jill (1942) Three Hearts for Julia (1943) Chatterbox (1943) Follow the Leader (1944) I Love My Wife, But! (1947) The Unfinished Dance (1947) Song of the Thin Man (1947) The Hucksters (1947) The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Living in a Big Way (1947) Force of Evil (1948) The Three Musketeers (1948) The Pirate (1948) On an Island with You (1948) The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) Hellfire (1949) The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) Outpost in Morocco (1949) Double Deal (1950) Frenchie (1950) The Showdown (1950) Dakota Lil (1950) Two Dollar Bettor (1951) Hurricane Island (1951) Little Big Horn (1951) The Jungle (1952) The Sniper (1952) The Narrow Margin (1952) Outlaw Women (1952) Japanese War Bride (1952)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) City That Never Sleeps (1953) So This Is Love (1953) Trouble Along the Way (1953) The Tall Texan (1953) The Bounty Hunter (1954) Hell's Half Acre (1954) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) The Silver Star (1955) Swamp Women (1955) No Man's Woman (1955) Two-Gun Lady (1956) The Killing (1956) The Story of Mankind (1957) The Parson and the Outlaw (1957) The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) The Unholy Wife (1957) Island Woman (1958) Day of the Bad Man (1958) Paradise Alley (1962) Critic's Choice (1963) The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963) Bedtime Story (1964) Mail Order Bride (1964) Chamber of Horrors (1966) The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) One More Train to Rob (1971) The Outfit (1973) Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) Hearts of the West (1975) Freaky Friday (1976) Lovely But Deadly (1981) Commando Squad (1987) Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Television

• The Public Defender, as Melody Scanlon in "The Ring" (1954)
• Stories of the Century, as Belle Starr in the series premiere episode (1954)
• Bat Masterson, as saloon owner Polly Landers in the episode "The Fighter" (1958)
• Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Daring Decoy" (1958)
• Rawhide, in the episode "Incident on the Edge of Madness" (1959)
• Wild Women (1970) (TV)
• Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Tarnished Trademark" (1962)
• Manhunter (1974) (TV)
• Salem's Lot (1979) (TV)
• Lou Grant (2 episodes, 1979 and 1980) (TV)
• The Perfect Woman (1981) (TV)
• J.O.E. and the Colonel (1985) (TV)
• Tales from the Darkside (1986) (TV)
• Commando Squad (1987) (TV)
• Supercarrier (1988) (TV)
• Adam 12 (1990) (TV)
• Murder She Wrote (2 episodes, 1987 and 1991) (TV)
• Gunsmoke, in the episode "Trafton" (1971)

References

1. ^ Marie Windsor at the Internet Movie Database.
2. ^ Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers) 1242.
3. ^ Bergan, Ronald (January 23, 2001). "Marie Windsor, glamorous actress famed for bad-girl roles" (Web). London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/jan/23/guardianobituaries.filmnews. Retrieved 2009-06-06. 
4. ^ USC Official Athletic Website: 2007 Inductees For USC Athletic Hall of Fame Announced
5. ^ Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to World Film, since 1885. 2008. Index home page.

Further reading

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

External links

Biography portal

• Marie Windsor at the Internet Movie Database
• Marie Windsor at the Internet Broadway Database
• Marie Windsor at AllRovi
• Marie Windsor interview with The Perfect Vision magazine at Modern Times Classic Film Pages
• Marie Windsor at Find a Grave
• Literature on Marie Windsor

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Name	Windsor, Marie
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 11, 1919
Place of birth	Marysvale, Utah
Date of death	December 10, 2000
Place of death	Beverly Hills, California