Mary Anderson

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Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918-April 6, 2014) was an American actress who appeared in 31 films and 22 television shows between 1939 and 1965.

She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind, as well as one of Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat's main characters.

Early life

Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Howard College (now Samford University).

James Anderson (1921–1969), her younger brother James Anderson (1921–1969) was also an actor, best known as Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). They appeared in a film together, 1951's Hunt the Man Down.

Personal life

Anderson was married to Leonard M. Behrens from 1940 to 1950. Leon Shamroy, his second marriage, was from 1953 to 1974. They had one child, Anderson Alexander Shamroy, who died on July 1, 1956, at the age of two months. Mary Anderson died of a stroke in Burbank, California, three days after her 96th birthday. She was in hospice care and died in a condo in Toluca Lake that she shared with her long-time companion, Gordon Carnon.

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Career

After two uncredited roles, she made her first important screen appearance in Gone With the Wind (1939). After auditioning as one of the 1,400 actresses involved in the search for Scarlett, she received the supporting role of Maybelle Merriwether.

In 1944, she played Alice the nurse, one of the ten characters in the Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat. Ending her film career in the early 1950s, she occasionally acted on television, for example as Catherine Harrington on Peyton Place in 1964 (episodes 2-20). She made a guest appearance in Perry Mason as Arlene Scott in "The Case of the Rolling Bones" (1958).

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