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Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor
Marie Windsor
Born: Dec 11, 1922 in Marysvale, Utah
Died: Dec 10, 2000 in Beverly Hills, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'70s
Major Genres: Western, Drama
Career Highlights: The Killing, Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin
First Major Screen Credit: Force of Evil (1948)
9 Videos for Marie Windsor
Humanoid Defender (1985) Bedtime Story (1963) Outlaw Women (1952)
Salem's Lot (1979) The Killing (1956) Little Big Horn (1951)
Hearts of the West (1975) The Tall Texan (1953) Song of the Thin Man (1947)
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Biography:

A Utah girl born and bred, actress Marie Windsor attended Brigham Young University and represented her state as Miss Utah in the Miss America pageant. She studied acting under Russian stage and screen luminary Maria Ouspenskaya, supporting herself as a telephone operator between performing assignments.

After several years of radio appearances and movie bits, Windsor was moved up to feature-film roles in 1947's Song of the Thin Man. She was groomed to be a leading lady, but her height precluded her co-starring with many of Hollywood's sensitive, slightly built leading men. (She later noted with amusement that at least one major male star had a mark on his dressing room door at the 5'6 level; if an actress was any taller than that, she was out.) Persevering, Windsor found steady work in second-lead roles as dance hall queens, gun molls, floozies, and exotic villainesses.

She is affectionately remembered by disciples of director Stanley Kubrick for her portrayal of Elisha Cook's cold-blooded, castrating wife in The Killing (1956). Curtailing her screen work in the late '80s, Windsor, who is far more agreeable in person than onscreen, began devoting the greater portion of her time to her sizeable family.

Because of her many appearances in Westerns (she was an expert horsewoman), Windsor has become a welcome and highly sought-after presence on the nostalgia convention circuit. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.