Marie Windsor

Birthday: 11 December 1919, Marysvale, Utah, USA

Birth Name: Emily Marie Bertelsen

Height: 175 cm

A product of Marysvale, Utah, Marie Windsor attended Brigham Young University and trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya before she began playing leading roles in B pictures in the late 1940s. Her best work was in the "film noir" category, most notably her role as the manipulative, double-crossing wife of Elisha Cook Jr. in The Killing (1956) (which earned her "Look" magazine's Best Supporting Actress award). Her favorites among her own films, in addition to "The Killing", are The Narrow Margin (1952) and Hellfire (1949). Show less «

[Stanley Kubrick] had a part for me in Lolita (1962) as Shelley Winters' best friend, but there was ...Show more »

[Stanley Kubrick] had a part for me in Lolita (1962) as Shelley Winters' best friend, but there was a problem in England with the EADY plan, and there was no way that they could squeeze me in. I haven't seen him in a long time, but we exchange Valentine's cards. I feel people have more time to think about it if they get a Valentine. Christmas is too crazy with other things. Show less «

I'm 5'9" and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they--George Raf...Show more »

I'm 5'9" and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they--George Raft and John Garfield. Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. Show less «

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