Winifred Ainslee

Winifred Ainslee (born Winifred MacIntosh; April 17, 1924 – December 14, 1991) was an American actress.

Early years Ainslee was born Winifred MacIntosh, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. Bringle McIntosh. He was a Methodist minister who became president of Ohio Northern University. and graduated from Ohio State University in 1947, double-majoring in English and Music. Before she finished college, she worked for a year as a [jazz] singer at the Cotton Club and a staff announcer at a radio station in Joplin, Missouri.

Career In the late 1940s Ainslee was a member of the Chicago cast of Brigadoon. The production toured in other cities, including Oakland She performed with the Chicago Music Theatre and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and she was musical director for touring productions of Brigadoon and Finian's Rainbow. In 1952 she was the female lead in a production of High Button Shoes in Chicago. and Auntie Mame (1958). Off-Broadway productions in which she appeared included What's Up (1953) She toured in Paint Your Wagon,

Ainslee acted on television After she stopped performing, she worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey until her retirement in the spring of 1991. Ainslee married fellow Brigadoon actor/singer James Schlader in Chicago on October 23, 1948. She married off-Broadway producer James Preston on March 5, 1959, in South Bend, Indiana. They have a daughter, Heather Lee Preston Buzasi.