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Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918)

Mary Anderson
Anderson in 1944
Born	Mary Bebe Anderson (1918-04-03)April 3, 1918 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Died	April 6, 2014(2014-04-06) (aged 96) Burbank, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
Other names	Mary B. Anderson[1]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1939–1965
Spouses	Leonard M. Behrens ​ ​ (m. 1940; div. 1950)​ Leon Shamroy ​ ​ (m. 1953; died 1974)​
Children	1
Family	James Anderson (brother)

Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions 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 the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat.^[2]

Early life[edit]

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

Career[edit]

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).

Personal life[edit]

Anderson died on April 6, 2014, in Burbank, California, of a stroke,^[3] three days after her 96th birthday.^[4] She was under hospice care and died in a condo in Toluca Lake that she shared with her long-time companion, Gordon Carnon.^{[citation needed]}

Partial filmography[edit]

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