28 Facts About Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.

Marie Windsor was born in 1919 in Marysvale, Utah, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Lane Bertelsen.

Marie Windsor graduated from Marysvale High School in 1934, doing a "musical reading" as part of the graduation exercises.

Marie Windsor attended Brigham Young University, where she participated in dramatic productions.

In 1939, Marie Windsor was chosen from a group of 81 contestants to be queen of Covered Wagon Days in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Marie Windsor was unofficially appointed "Miss Utah of 1939" by her hometown's Chamber of Commerce, and trained for the stage under Hollywood actress and coach Maria Ouspenskaya.

Voluptuous and leggy, but unusually tall for a starlet of her generation, Marie Windsor felt that she was handicapped when playing opposite actors of average stature.

In later years, thanks to her early screen success, Marie Windsor was able to pursue her studies more extensively, primarily with Stella Adler and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Marie Windsor worked in radio in Salt Lake City before moving to California.

Marie Windsor played a villain in a New York production of Follow the Girls.

In 1986, Marie Windsor played Francis Carson in the premiere of The Bar Off Melrose by Oliver Hailey et al.

When Benny finally met Marie Windsor, "he was stunned by her good looks" and had a producer sign her to a contract.

Marie Windsor had roles in numerous 1950s film noirs, notably The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps, and the Stanley Kubrick heist film, The Killing, in which she played Elisha Cook, Jr.

Marie Windsor made her first foray into science fiction with the release of Cat-Women of the Moon.

Marie Windsor co-starred with Randolph Scott in The Bounty Hunter.

Marie Windsor appeared as "The Mutton Puncher" in season 3 of Cheyenne, in 1957.

Marie Windsor appeared in 1954 as Belle Starr in the premiere episode of Stories of the Century.

Marie Windsor appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones; episode "Twenty Million Alibis".

Marie Windsor remained on screen once or so annually up to the 1990s, playing her final role and going into retirement in 1991 at the age of 72.

In 1987, Marie Windsor received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best actress for her work in The Bar Off Melrose.

Marie Windsor received the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actors Guild for her service on the organization's board of directors.

In July 1950, newspaper columnist Louella Parsons reported, "Marie Windsor has set her marriage to Alex Lunciman, a Beverly Hills stock broker, for October".

Marie Windsor married realtor Jack Hupp, a member of the 1936 US Olympic basketball team.

Hupp, with whom Marie Windsor had a son, Richard Rodney, was inducted posthumously into the University of Southern California Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.

Marie Windsor was politically conservative, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Marie Windsor was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Marie Windsor died of congestive heart failure on December 10,2000, the day before her 81st birthday.

Marie Windsor is interred with Hupp in her native Marysvale, Utah, at Mountain View Cemetery.