Marianne Stewart

Marianne Stewart (born Annemarie Schünzel, January 16, 1922 – November 1, 1992) was a German-American stage, film and television actress.

Marianne Stewart
Born	Annemarie Schünzel[1] (1922-01-16)January 16, 1922[2] Berlin, Germany
Died	November 1, 1992(1992-11-01) (aged 70) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Credited as Ann Loring,[3][4] Ann Sheldon,[5][6][lower-alpha 1] Annemarie Stewart and Anna Maria Stewart
Occupation	Stage actress, Film actress, television actress
Years active	1943–1965
Spouse(s)	Louis Calhern (1946–1955; divorced)[8] Wilbur George Dirksing (?–1992)[9][2]
Parent(s)	Hanne Brinkmann, Reinhold Schünzel

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,[1] where she attended Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1940.[10]

Career

On November 1, 1940, Stewart made her uncredited screen debut in MGM's Escape,[3] 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.[11] 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.[12]

Stewart was married to her erstwhile leading man, Louis Calhern, from 1946 to 1955, and later to Wilbur George Dirksing until her death.[9][2] Stewart died of cancer on May 10, 1992, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 70.[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1940	Escape	Helene - a student	Uncredited
1942	Valley of Hunted Men	Laura Steiner	Credited as Anna Marie Stewart
1943	Three Russian Girls	Olga	Credited as Anna Marie Stewart
1944	The Canterville Ghost	Buxom Lass at Party	Uncredited
1944	Mrs. Parkington	French maid	Uncredited
1946	Our Hearts Were Growing Up	Lowell schoolgirl	Uncredited
1950	Right Cross	Audrey
1956	Time Table	Ruth Norman
1957	Hot Summer Night	Ruth Childers
1957	Back from the Dead	Nancy Cordell
1959	The Big Fisherman	Ione
1960	The Facts of Life	Connie Mason
1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Town Gossip

Television

Year	Title	Role
1951	Danger (TV series; one episode – 1951, 2 January)	Not available
1954	The Danny Thomas Show (TV series; two episodes – 1954, 23 February and 2 March)	Grace
1954	Henry Fonda Presents (TV series; one episode, "A Matter of Courage" – 1954, 28 August)	Not Available[13]
1955	The Star and the Story (TV series; one episode – 1955, 2 January)	Bess
1956-58	Schlitz Playhouse (TV series; four episodes, "The Finger of God," "Officer Needs Help," "The Big Payoff" and "A Thing to Fight For" – 1956, 30 March, 18 May, 28 December; 1958, 26 September)	Jacoba Dewet, NA, Mary, Eleanor Searcy
1956	Big Town (TV series; one episode – 1956, 10 April)	Edith Miller
1956	Medic (TV series; one episode, "The Inconstant Heart" – 1956, 23 April)	Dot Forbes
1956	Crusader (TV series; one episode, "The Farm" – 1956, 22 June)	Erna
1956	Soldiers of Fortune (TV series; one episode, "Doubled in Diamonds" – 1956, 25 November)	Gretchen Van Loon
1956–57	General Electric Theater (TV series; three episodes, "The Pot of Gold," "The Charlatan" and "Angel of Wrath" – 1956, 7 October and 11 November; 1957, 5 May)	Alice, Mrs. Mikelson, Phyllis
1957	Gunsmoke (TV series; one episode, "Gone Straight" – 1957, 9 February)	Mrs. Timble
1957	The Millionaire (TV series; one episode, "The Jerry Patterson Story" – 1957, 6 March)	Jan Patterson
1957	Matinee Theater (TV series; one episode, "The Starmaster" – 1957, 17 May)	Patricia
1957	The Web (TV series; one episode, "Kill and Run" – 1957, 11 August)	Mrs. Lanham
1957	O. Henry Playhouse (TV series; one episode, "The Lonely Man" – 1957, 14 September)	NA[14][15][16]
1957	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series; one episode, "The Perfect Crime" – 1957, 20 October)	Alice West
1957	Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (TV series; one episode, "Class Reunion" – 1957, 20 October)	NA
1958-59	The Thin Man (TV series; two episodes, "The Tennis Champ" and "Gory Road" – 1958, 11 April; 1959, 3 April)	Beth Harvey, Sheila Van Dyke
1958	Alcoa Theatre (TV series; one episode, "The Clock Struck Twelve" – 1958, 2 June)	Wife (uncredited)
1958	Zane Grey Theater (TV series; one episode, "The Accuser" – 1957, 20 October)	Polly Merrick
1959	The Lineup (TV series; two episodes, "The Boylston Billing Case" and "The Hamilton Harker Case" – 1959, 23 January, 6 February)	Carmen Billing, NA
1959	Buckskin (TV series; one episode, "Who Killed Pat Devlin?" – 1959, 16 February)	Vanessa Devlin
1959	Philip Marlowe (TV series; one episode, "Prescription for Murder" – 1959, 20 October)	Ann Vincent
1959	The Man from Blackhawk (TV series; one episode, "The Gypsy Story" – 1957, 20 October)	Molly Davenant
1959	Bachelor Father (TV series; one episode, "Bentley's Double Play" – 1957, 20 October)	Miss Gunther
1959	Mike Hammer (TV series; one episode, "I Ain't Talkin'" – 1957, 20 October)	Myra Robbins
1960	Bonanza (One episode, "A House Divided" – 1960, 16 January)	Lily Van Cleet Kyle
1960	Manhunt (One episode, "The Ice Caper" – 1960, 14 April)	Ellen
1960	Dante (One episode, "One for the Birds" – 1960, 3 October)	Veronica Mizell
1960	Peter Loves Mary (One episode, "Make a Million" – 1960, 2 November)	Mrs. Crawford
1960	Michael Shayne (One episode, "Murder plays Charades" – 1960, 9 December)	Emily Tallen
1959-61	Perry Mason (Three episodes, "The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor," "The Case of the Spurious Sister" and "The Case of the Wintry Wife" – 1959, 4 April, 3 October; 1961, 18 February)	Edith Douglas, Helen Sprague, Phyllis Hudson
1961	Route 66 (One episode, "Sleep on Four Pillows" – 1961, 24 February)	Marva Emerson
1961	The Asphalt Jungle (One episode, "The Lay and the Lawyer" – 1961, 9 April)	Rose Wardell
1961	Whispering Smith (One episode, "The Mortal Coil" – 1961, 24 July)	Sarah Denton
1961	Shotgun Slade (One episode, "Skinner's Rainbow" – 1961, 24 April)	Kate Murdock
1962	Ben Casey (two episodes, "A Story to be Softly Told" and "Pick Up All My Care and Woe" – 1962, 22 January, 17 December)	Miss Masterson, Ruth Shipley
1962	Straightaway (one episode, "Escape from Darkness" – 1962, 14 February)	NA[17]
1963	Arrest and Trial (One episode, "A Shield Is For Hiding Behind" – 1963, 6 October)	Eileen Palmer
1965	My Living Doll (One episode, "The Kleptomaniac" – 1960, 16 January)	Salesgirl #2

Notes

1. A likely explanation for Schünzel's pre-Stewart metamorphosis from Loring to Sheldon was the sudden and unexpected reemergence, less than 2 weeks prior to Escape's release, of an MGM alumnus of relatively recent vintage likewise named Ann Loring. This was due to the latter's much-publicized marriage to actor Herbert Rudley.[7]

References

1. "Message Boards: Hanne Brinkmann". Ancestry.com. 2005. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
2. "Obituaries/Funeral Announcements: Dirksing, Marianne S.". The Los Angeles Times. November 13, 1992. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
3. "Director's Child in Screen Debut". The Washington Post. June 26, 1940. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
4. Chatter; Hollywood. Variety. May 22, 1940. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
5. Soister, John T. (2002). Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-7864-4511-0.
6. American Film Institute Staff (1997).Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 314. ISBN 0-520-20964-8.
7. "Has Permanent Leading Man". New York Daily News. October 20, 1940. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
8. Calherns Divorced". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. July 20, 1955. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
9. "All Public Member Trees results for Wilbur George Dirksing". Ancestry.com. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
10. "Young Actress Nearly Got Too Much Theater". The New York Herald Tribune. October 22, 1944. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
11. Quirk, David. 'Norway' Duo Signed to Tune Berle Show". New York Daily News. Oct 23, 1944. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
12. "Photos by European". Town and Country. October 1945. Retrieved December 31, 2019
13. "Maugham Story Will Be Feature of CBS-TV Show". The Sacramento Bee. August 28, 1954.
14. "Saturday's TV Preview". The Washington Post. Sep 14, 1957. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
15. "Marianne Stewart in 'The Lonely Man'". Honolulu Start-Bulletin. May 10, 1958. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
16. "TV Week: Saturday Evening". Chicago Tribune. April 25, 1959. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
17. "Todays Complete TV Programs". The Hackensack Record. February 14, 1962. Retrieved January 28, 1962.

Further reading

• "European Cinema Chief in Los Angeles; Germany's Ace Director in City". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 1937.
• "Director's Daughter Spurns Screen Test". The Pittsburgh Press. July 29, 1939.
• "Lubitsch Tests Schunzel". The Hollywood Reporter. December 5, 1939.
• "Screen Society: Badminton is the Theme". The Los Angeles Times. December 1, 1940.
• "Young Actress Nearly Got Too Much Theater". The New York Herald Tribune. October 22, 1944. Pts. 1, 2 and 3.
• Schallert, Edwin. "Screen and Stage - 'Don Juan' Definitely Set for Errol Flynn". Los Angeles Times. Oct 26, 1944.
• Pollock, Arthur. "Playthings: Boy Marianne Just Wouldn't Be". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1944
• "In Long Run Play". The New York Times. November 30, 1944.
• Henry, Bill. By the Way. Los Angeles Times. December 4, 1944.
• "Hollywoodians On Stage". New York Daily News. February 25, 1945.
• Runyon, Damon. "Mr. 'B' and his Stork Club". Hearst International Combined with Cosmopolitan. May 1947.
• Chapman, John. "'The Survivors' a Talky Western With a Message Favoring Peace". New York Daily News. January 20, 1948.
• United Press. "Calhern, Wife Deny Income Tax Evasion". The Wilmington News. March 21, 1956.
• "Actor's Estate". South China Morning Post. May 24, 1956.
• "Player Resumes Career on Stage" . Los Angeles Times. January 28, 1957.
• "UCLA Theater Group to Present Play by Eliot Jan. 19-25". San Bernardino Sun. January 7, 1960.

External links

• Marianne Stewart on IMDb
• Marianne Stewart at the Internet Broadway Database