Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) facts for kids
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Mary Anderson
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Anderson in 1944
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Mary Bebe Anderson
April 3, 1918 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
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Died | April 6, 2014 Burbank, California, U.S.
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(aged 96)
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills |
Other names | Mary B. Anderson |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1939–1965 |
Spouse(s) |
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.
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Early life
Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Howard College (now Samford University).
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 one film together, 1951's Hunt the Man Down.
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).
Personal life
Anderson was married to Leonard M. Behrens from 1940 to 1950. Her second marriage was to cinematographer Leon Shamroy from 1953 until his death in 1974. They had one child, Anderson Alexander Shamroy, who died July 1, 1956, at the age of two months. Mary Anderson died on April 6, 2014, in Burbank, California, of a stroke, three days after her 96th birthday. She was under hospice care and died in a condo in Toluca Lake that she shared with her long-time companion, Gordon Carnon.
Actresses with the same name
She is often confused with the stage actress Mary Anderson (1859–1940) or the silent film actress Mary Anderson (1897–1986).
Partial filmography
Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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1939 | The Women | Young Girl | George Cukor | uncredited |
1939 | Gone with the Wind | Maybelle Merriwether | Victor Fleming | |
1939 | Mendelssohn's Wedding March | Hilda | uncredited | |
1940 | 'Til We Meet Again | Girl | William K. Howard | uncredited |
1940 | Flight Angels | Daisy Lou | Lewis Seiler | |
1940 | The Sea Hawk | Maid of Honor | Michael Curtiz | uncredited |
1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Rebecca Jay | Anatole Litvak | |
1940 | My Love Came Back | Woman Mistaken for Amelia by Tony | Curtis Bernhardt | uncredited |
1940 | A Dispatch from Reuter's | Girl with Max | William Dieterle | uncredited |
1941 | Cheers for Miss Bishop | Amy Saunders | Tay Garnett | |
1941 | Under Age | Edie Baird | Edward Dmytryk | |
1941 | Henry Aldrich for President | Phyllis Michael | Hugh Bennett | |
1941 | Bahama Passage | Mary Ainsworth | Edward H. Griffith | |
1942 | Henry and Dizzy | Phyillis Michael | Hugh Bennett | |
1943 | The Song of Bernadette | Jeanne Abadie | Henry King | |
1944 | Lifeboat | Alice MacKenzie | Alfred Hitchcock | |
1944 | The Keys of the Kingdom | John M. Stahl | uncredited | |
1944 | Wilson | Eleanor Wilson | Henry King | |
1945 | Within These Walls | Anne Howland | Bill BainPhilip Casson | |
1945 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Elia Kazan | uncredited | |
1946 | Behind Green Lights | Nora Bard | Otto Brower | |
1946 | To Each His Own | Corinne Piersen | Mitchell Leisen | |
1947 | Whispering City | Mary Roberts | Fedor Ozep | |
1950 | The Asphalt Jungle | Police Broadcaster | John Huston | voice, uncredited |
1950 | The Underworld Story | Molly Rankin | Cy Endfield | |
1950 | Last of the Buccaneers | Swallow | Lew Landers | |
1950 | Hunt the Man Down | Alice McGuire / Peggy Linden | George Archainbaud | |
1951 | Chicago Calling | Mary Cannon | John Reinhardt | |
1951 | Passage West | Myra Johnson | ||
1952 | One Big Affair | Hilda Jones | Peter Godfrey | |
1953 | I, the Jury | Eileen Vickers | Harry Essex | |
1953 | Dangerous Crossing | Anna Quinn | Joseph M. Newman | |
1959 | Jet Over the Atlantic | Maria | Byron Haskin | |
1962 | * Lawman (1962 episode "The Actor") as Martha Carson | Martha Carson | episode "The Actor" | |
1980 | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Old Lady in Music Store | Tommy Chong | uncredited; final film role |
Images for kids
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Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) with Hume Cronyn, Henry Hull, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Anderson and Canada Lee
See also
In Spanish: Mary Anderson (actriz) para niños