| Activity | Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was called "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). However, other actresses, such as Fay Wray, Lucille Ball, and others have garnered the title as well.
Windsor, a former Miss Utah, trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya, and after several years as a telephone operator, a stage and radio actress, and a bit and extra player in films, she began playing feature and lead parts in 1947.
The 5'9" actress's first memorable role was opposite John Garfield in Force of Evil playing seductress Edna Tucker. Windsor also had large roles in film noirs including The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps and Stanley Kubrick's heist movie The Killing playing Elisha Cook Jr.'s scheming wife.
Later she moved on to television, appearing on such shows as Maverick (in episodes "The Quick and the Dead" with James Garner and "Epitaph for a Gambler"), The Incredible Hulk, General Hospital, Murder, She Wrote and Rawhide ("Incident on the Edge of Madness").
After her acting career she became a painter and sculptor. She died of undisclosed causes on 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 Institute's 100 years.
She married twice. First to actor Ted Stevens whom she later divorced, and to Jack Hupp, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic basketball team. Hupp, with whom Windsor had a son, was posthumously inducted into the University of Southern California (USC) Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007 . The couple are buried in Marysvale Utah. |