Marie Windsor
(December 11, 1919 – December 10, 2000)
My favorite actress, Marie Windsor, was born 101 years today. Seems like a good time for a blogathon celebrating her life and work. Through Monday the 14th, there will be posts about Ms. Windsor’s work in movies and TV from a number of film bloggers. This post will serve as a hub, or index, for those posts (see below).
Emily Marie Bertelsen was born in Utah and went to Brigham Young University. She headed for Hollywood in 1939 and studied acting at Maria Ouspenskaya’s school (around the time Ouspenskaya played the old gypsy woman in The Wolf Man). Around this time, she started using the name Marie Windsor.
Marie worked on radio, was a telephone operator and did lots of bit parts before getting a really good role in Force Of Evil (1948) with John Garfield.
A string of noirs and Westerns followed, so much good stuff: Hellfire (1949), The Fighting Kentuckian (1949), The Showdown (1950), The Sniper (1952), The Narrow Margin (1952), Trouble Along The Way (1953), The Bounty Hunter (1954), Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy (1955), The Killing (1956), Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) and The Outfit (1973). That’s just a few.
She stayed busy in TV, too: Cheyenne, Maverick, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Batman, Adam-12 and many, many more.
She was often called The Queen Of The Bs, but I think that belittles both her talent and the many terrific little movies she made. No matter how cheap the movie might be (like 1957’s The Parson And The Outlaw, up top), or how small the part, she always, always gave it her best.
The Marie Windsor Blogathon
Post #1: Double Deal (1950)
The Hannibal 8
Post #2: Dakota Lil (1950) by guest blogger Boyd Cathey
50 Westerns From The 50s
Post #3: Maverick – The Quick And The Dead (1957)
Caftan Woman
Post #4: Hellfire (1949)
Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings
Post #5: Force Of Evil (1948)
The Oak Drive-In
Post #6: Hellfire (1949)
50 Westerns From The 50s
Post #7: So This Is Love (1953)
Pure Entertainment Preservation Society
Marie on Maverick: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/12/the-marie-windsor-blogathon-maverick.html
Dear Tony,
Here is my review of “So This is Love:” https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/100-new-code-films-98-so-this-is-love-from-1953-marie-windsor/. I’m sorry for publishing it so late. A lot of things have come up! I hope you will still include it in the roster. Thank you for hosting this!
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
You’ve been added to the list! Thanks for being part of this!
Dear Toby,
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
By the way, I would like to invite you to join my three upcoming blogathons, The Sunset Boulevard Blogathon in January (https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/announcing-our-new-years-eve-party-the-sunset-boulevard-blogathon/), The Unhappy Valentines Blogathon in February (https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/announcing-the-unhappy-valentines-blogathon/), and The Luck o’ the Irish Blogathon (https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/announcing-the-luck-o-the-irish-blogathon/). It would be great if you could join one or more of these. We could really use your talent!
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan