Western Hellfire Hottie Marie Windsor Vintage 1949 Voluptuous Glamour Photograph

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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Republic Pictures production still photograph of voluptuous actress Marie Windsor. The beautiful screen star is a buxom Western star in a sweetheart gown with a single strap adorned with fabric butterflies. Bedecked in glittering jewels and fishnet stockings, Windsor looks ready for a night out at the saloon! Photographed by Roman Freulich for the 1949 film "Hellfire."
Known for her femme fatale characters in such classic film noir features such as "Force of Evil", "The Narrow Margin", and "The Killing", Windsor enjoyed a prolific career in both film and television, however her height created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors (she was 5'9"). She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.
Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock. Photographer's ink stamp and pencil notations on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Marie Windsor:
Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen) was born in Marysvale, Utah, and attended Brigham Young University. She trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya before she began playing leading roles in B pictures in the late 1940s. So many B films in fact, that she garnered the title of 'Queen of the Bs'.
She was a talent - to paraphrase a cliché - of the right type and the right time. If film nor could have manufactured an archetype, it would most definitely have been Marie.
With Ms Windsor's bedroom eyes ('they didn't fit for a 'goody-goody wife, or a nice little girlfriend' ) she smouldered on screens, in scenes with John Garfield, and many others, in some of her best work. Marie's femme fatale (Ms Windsor was later quoted as saying a femme fatale is '...usually the woman who gets the man into bed... then into trouble') was on screen, 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).
Marie later said she loved playing them because they're '... the type of character audience's never forget'.
Some of her favourites amongst her own films, in addition to The Killing (1956), are The Narrow Margin (1952) and Hellfire (1949).
Marie married was married twice before she met Jack Hupp, a realtor with whom she had a son. After retiring from films, Marie took up sculpting and painting.
Marie passed away one day before her 81st birthday. She's interred with her husband in her hometown.
Marie said audience's 'loved to hate her', and this is only partially true; audience's love Ms Windsor for the dynamism she portrayed, and as film noir gains new fans every day - more than 3/4 of a century since their heyday, it's a love affair which shows no signs of abating.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver