Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids 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
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.

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

Anderson in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

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.

L-R: Walter Slezak, John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Hull, William Bendix, Heather Angel, Mary Anderson, Canada Lee, and Hume Cronyn in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944)

Anderson with actor Charles Russell in Behind Green Lights (1946)

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

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