13 Facts About Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood moved to the US in 1916 and made her Broadway debut in New York City.

Estelle Winwood relented and made her film debut in Night Angel, but her scenes were cut before the film's release.

Estelle Winwood made no cinematic films during the 1940s, but expressed a willingness to participate in the new medium of television, starring in a television production of Blithe Spirit in 1946.

Estelle Winwood played the character Hortense in the episode "Where's There's a Will" on the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys starring Walter Brennan.

Estelle Winwood later denigrated the last film, saying she could not imagine why she had done it except for the money.

Estelle Winwood appeared in the Barnaby Jones episode "Murder in the Doll's House".

Estelle Winwood continued making appearances until she was 100 years old.

Estelle Winwood married four times : to character actor Arthur Chesney in 1907, New Zealand rancher and marine solicitor Francis Barlow Bradley in 1928, third marriage - dates needed, American actor Robert Henderson in 1944, a man many years her junior, whom Estelle Winwood lived apart from in her later life, though he would visit her several times a year.

Estelle Winwood was good friends with Tallulah Bankhead, who died in 1968.

Bankhead, actresses Eva Le Gallienne and Blyth Daly, and Estelle Winwood were dubbed "The Four Riders of the Algonquin" in the early silent film days, because of their appearances together at the Algonquin Round Table.

Estelle Winwood appeared as a character in Answered Prayers, Truman Capote's final, unfinished, thinly veiled roman a clef.

Estelle Winwood died in her sleep in Woodland Hills, California, in 1984 at age 101.

Estelle Winwood was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.