Marian Winters

Marian Winters
Born	April 19, 1924(1924-04-19) New York City, New York, USA
Died	November 3, 1978(1978-11-03) (aged 54) New York City, New York, USA

Marian Winters (19 April 1924 - 3 November 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

Biography

Born in New York City, New York to a Jewish-American family, Winters made her debut in summerstock at age sixteen. She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.

She began her career on Broadway understudying Frances Dee in The Secret Room (1945). She also played Lady Constance in King John, and toured in Detective Story, The Heiress and Dream Girl. She achieved fame for her role in I Am a Camera as Natalia Landauer. For this performance she was awarded the 1952 Tony Award as a Best Supporting or Featured Actress. In 1955, she played the part of Gelda in Katharine Cornell's production of "The Light is Dark Enough, a verse drama by Christopher Fry.

Deathtrap, her final play, was the most financially and critically successful (aside from Auntie Mame). Her role (played by Irene Worth in the film version), however, was cut short due to cancer, from which she died in NYC on 3 November 1978, aged 54. She was succeeded in the role by actress Elizabeth Parrish.

She was married once, but had no children.

Stage productions

• Deathtrap as Helga ten Dorp from 26 February 1978 until October 1978
• Mating Dance from 3 November 1965 to 3 November 1965
• Nobody Loves an Albatross as Marge Weber from 19 December to 20 June 1964
• The 49th Cousin as Tracy Lowe from 27 October 1960 to 21 January 1961
• Tall Story as Myra Solomon from 29 January 1959 to 22 May 1959
• Auntie Mame as Sally Cato MacDougal from 31 October 1956 to 28 June 1958
• The Dark Is Light Enough as Gelda from 23 February 1955 to 23 April 1955

Television

• Lux Video Theatre (1952)
• Play of the Week (1960)
• The Defenders (1962)
• The Nurses (1963)
• Paradise Lost (1974)

External links

Biography portal

• Marian Winters at Find a Grave
• Marian Winters at the Internet Broadway Database
• Marian Winters at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Winters, Marian
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Date of birth	19 April 1924
Place of birth	New York City, New York, USA
Date of death	3 November 1978
Place of death	New York City, New York, USA