Marie Windsor

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Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen on December 11, 1919 in Marysvale , Utah , † December 10, 2000 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American actress.

Life

Marie Windsor was born in 1919 in a small village in the US state of Utah. She was elected unofficial "Miss Utah" in 1939, which paved her way into show business. Windsor studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and made her film debut in 1941 with a small role in the comedy Unexspected Uncle . Her roles remain small at first, which is why she worked on the side in the theater and radio and even as a telephone operator. Only with its role in the Broadway -Stück Follow The Girls could make the 1946 film agents really noticed. The following year she had her first major film role alongside William Powell and Myrna Loy in the crime comedy The Song of the Thin Man (1947), where she played a rich but unsympathetic role.

Marie Windsor soon became a well-known actress. It was mainly seen in B-movies , which were often of mixed or even poor quality. But she would have put a “shimmering light” on even these films and thus had a long acting career. The actress was particularly popular in roles as a seedy seductress or gangster bride. Her roles as femme fatale made her a small icon of film noir . In Um Haaresbreite (1952), for example, she embodied a mysterious woman with a double identity and in Stanley Kubrick's The Bill Did Not Work (1956) she was seen as a malicious wife who manipulates and betrays her husband. In addition to noir films, Windsor also appeared in countless westerns and occasionally in comedies, such as Abbott and Costello as mummy robbers .

Marie Windsor also began working on television in the 1950s and remained a busy actress as she advanced in age. In 1991 she had her last role in the television series Murder Is Her Hobby with Angela Lansbury . Marie Windsor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film work .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed biography on a local website by Utha
  2. ^ Obituary in the Guardian
  3. ↑ Marie Windsor on "The Film Noir"
personal data
SURNAME Windsor, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertelsen, Emily Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Marysvale , Utah , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2000
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , United States