Marian Winters (April 19, 1920 – November 3, 1978) was an American dramatist and actress of stage, film, and television.
In 1955, she played Gelda in the American production of The Dark is Light Enough, a verse drama by Christopher Fry, which starred Katharine Cornell and Tyrone Power.
[1] In 1967, Winters won an Emmy for her television adaptation of Animal Keepers, one of the three one-act plays comprising A is for All.
[2] Her tenure in Deathtrap was cut short due to cancer, which claimed her life on November 3, 1978.
[1][3] Winters was married to NBC executive Jerome H. "Jay" Smolin (November 29, 1919 – October 21, 2010) from circa 1946/1947 until her death in 1978.