Marianne Stewart
Marianne Stewart was a German-American stage, film and television actress.
Early life
Stewart was born Annemarie Schünzel in Berlin, Germany on January 16, 1922 to Hanne Brinkmann and Reinhold Schünzel. In 1937, she and her father emigrated to the United States, where she attended Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1940.Career
On November 1, 1940, Stewart made her uncredited screen debut in MGM's Escape, her first credited appearance coming 2 years later in Valley of Hunted Men.Stewart's Broadway debut came on October 23, 1944, when she replaced Annabella in Elia Kazan's production of Jacobowsky and the Colonel, opposite Oscar Karlweis and Louis Calhern. The following fall, Kazan cast Stewart, along with Edmund Gwenn and Montgomery Clift, in his staging of You Touched Me, Tennessee Williams' and Donald Windham's adaptation of the same-named D.H. Lawrence short story.
Stewart was married to her erstwhile leading man, Louis Calhern, from 1946 to 1955, and later to Wilbur George Dirksing until her death. Stewart died of cancer on May 10, 1992, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 70.
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role |
1951 | Danger | Not available |
1954 | The Danny Thomas Show | Grace |
1954 | Henry Fonda Presents | Not Available |
1955 | The Star and the Story | Bess |
1956-58 | Schlitz Playhouse | Jacoba Dewet, NA, Mary, Eleanor Searcy |
1956 | Big Town | Edith Miller |
1956 | Medic | Dot Forbes |
1956 | Crusader | Erna |
1956 | Soldiers of Fortune | Gretchen Van Loon |
1956–57 | General Electric Theater | Alice, Mrs. Mikelson, Phyllis |
1957 | Gunsmoke | Mrs. Timble |
1957 | The Millionaire | Jan Patterson |
1957 | Matinee Theater | Patricia |
1957 | The Web | Mrs. Lanham |
1957 | O. Henry Playhouse | NA |
1957 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Alice West |
1957 | Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal | NA |
1958-59 | The Thin Man | Beth Harvey, Sheila Van Dyke |
1958 | Alcoa Theatre | Wife |
1958 | Zane Grey Theater | Polly Merrick |
1959 | The Lineup | Carmen Billing, NA |
1959 | Buckskin | Vanessa Devlin |
1959 | Philip Marlowe | Ann Vincent |
1959 | The Man from Blackhawk | Molly Davenant |
1959 | Bachelor Father | Miss Gunther |
1959 | Mike Hammer | Myra Robbins |
1960 | Bonanza | Lily Van Cleet Kyle |
1960 | Manhunt | Ellen |
1960 | Dante | Veronica Mizell |
1960 | Peter Loves Mary | Mrs. Crawford |
1960 | Michael Shayne | Emily Tallen |
1959-61 | Perry Mason | Edith Douglas, Helen Sprague, Phyllis Hudson |
1961 | Route 66 | Marva Emerson |
1961 | The Asphalt Jungle | Rose Wardell |
1961 | Whispering Smith | Sarah Denton |
1961 | Shotgun Slade | Kate Murdock |
1962 | Ben Casey | Miss Masterson, Ruth Shipley |
1962 | Straightaway | NA |
1963 | Arrest and Trial | Eileen Palmer |
1965 | My Living Doll | Salesgirl #2 |