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Marie Windsor
Age: 80 (passed away Dec. 10th, 2000)
Height: 5'9"
Birth Place: Marysvale, Utah, USA
Born: Dec. 11th, 1919
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BIOGRAPHY: 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).
TRIVIA:
- Died 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 Institutes 100 years... 100 stars event. AFI revealed the list on a three-hour CBS television special June 15, 1999.
- Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).
- Claims she had a nose job in 1959 because she felt her nose was "too prominent." She later questioned this decision, wondering if she would have gotten more sympathetic roles if her nose were less aquiline.
- Husband Jack is the son of silent screen actor/writer/director 'Earle Rodney' (qv).
- First child of Etta and Lane Bertelsen, she was christened Emily Marie. She was 11 when brother Jerry was born and 17 when her sister Louise arrived, by which time, Emily Marie was already in her first year at Brigham Young University.
- She served as a director of the Screen Actors Guild for 25-years.
- Step-son, Chris, from Jack's first marriage. He lived with them starting at age 13. Son Richard Rodney born January 11, 1963. She claimed having Chris around was a big help in raising Ricky.
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