Marian Winters
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Marian Winters (19 April 1924 - 3 November 1978) was an American stage actress with some roles on film and television.
Born on 19 April 1924 in New York, New York to a Jewish-American family, she debuted in summerstock, aged 16. 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 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.
She also appeared on Broadway in the following roles, starting with the mosr recent:
- 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
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.
On TV she appeared in Love of Life, The Guiding Light, and The Nurses, among other programs.
She was married once, but had no children.
