Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen; December 11, 1919 – December 10, 2000) was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many B-movies and film noirs.
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.
I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.
The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
But painting can be too lonely. . . I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.