Marie Windsor
(1919-2000)
Queeen of the Bs
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News and Gossip She was a dark beauty who stood nearly 6 feet tall in her high heels, Ms. Windsor became the classic dangerous beauty of film, stage, and in over 300 radio dramas... Ms. Windsor's screen presence helped her hold her own with tough-guy hero John Wayne in three films, including The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) and 20 years later Cahill: United States Marshall (1973)... Her list of leading men from 1941 until her final film in the late 1980s read like a Hollywood "Who's Who", and included funny men Abbot and Costello, Marlon Brando ("Bedtime Story") David Niven, William Powell ("Song of the Thin Man") and John Garfield ("Force of Evil"). Ms. Windsor also starred with a new generation of stars in the 1970s, costarring with a very precocious young actress, Jodie Foster, in the comedy Freaky Friday (1976) for Disney... In 1983, Ms. Windsor was immortalized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Source: Obits.com) She was groomed to be a leading lady, but her height precluded her co-starring with many of Hollywood's sensitive,
slightly built leading men.
She once noted with amusement that at least one major male star had a mark on his dressing room door at the 5'6" level;
if an actress was any taller than that, she was out. "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." She appeared in so many noirs (a genre of crime
literature featuring tough, cynical characters and
bleak settings) she was christened Queen of the Bs.
"I'm satisfied with that," the 76 year-old actress says today (1999).
"It's nice to be queen of something." |
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