Editing Marie Windsor (section)

==Film==
After working for several years as a [[Switchboard operator|telephone operator]], a stage and radio actress, and a bit part and extra player in films, Windsor began playing feature parts on the big screen in 1947.<ref>{{cite book| last=Katz| first=Ephraim| title=The Film Encyclopedia| date=February 26, 2013| edition=7th| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUujVPHXBZIC&q=The+Film+Encyclopedia| location=New York| publisher=Harper Collins|  page=1242| isbn=978-0062277114|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Her first film contract, with [[Warner Bros.]] in 1942, resulted from her writing jokes and submitting them to [[Jack Benny]]. Windsor said she submitted the gags under the name M.E. Windsor "because I was afraid he might be prejudiced against a woman gag writer".<ref name="first">{{cite news| title=Marysvale Girl Wins Role In Jack Benny Movie| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5495111/the_salt_lake_tribune/| newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune| date=April 23, 1942| page=13| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=June 5, 2016}}{{Open access}}</ref> When Benny finally met Windsor, "he was stunned by her good looks" and had a producer sign her to a contract.<ref name=first/> After a tenure with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in which the studio "signed her, put her in two small roles and then promptly forgot her", she signed a seven-year contract in 1948 with [[Enterprise Productions]].<ref name=utah/>

The actress' first memorable role in 1948 was with [[John Garfield]] in ''[[Force of Evil]]'' playing seductress Edna Tucker. She had roles in numerous 1950s film noirs, notably ''[[The Sniper (1952 film)|The Sniper]]'', ''[[The Narrow Margin]]'', ''[[City That Never Sleeps]]'', and the [[Stanley Kubrick]] heist film, ''[[The Killing (film)|The Killing]]'', in which she played [[Elisha Cook, Jr.]]'s, scheming wife. She also made her first foray into science fiction with the release of ''[[Cat-Women of the Moon]]'' (1953). Windsor co-starred with [[Randolph Scott]] in ''[[The Bounty Hunter (1954 film)|The Bounty Hunter]]'' (1954).