Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918)
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]
Mary Anderson | |
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Anderson in 1944 | |
| Born | Mary Bebe Anderson April 3, 1918 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | April 6, 2014 (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 |
| Spouse(s) | Leonard M. Behrens (m. 1940; div. 1950) |
| Children | 1 |
| Family | James Anderson (brother) |
Early life
Anderson's 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 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.
Partial filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Martha Carson | Richard C. Sarafian | "S4/E37 "The Actor" |
| 1965 | Daniel Boone | Marni Tolson | John Florea | S2/E12 "The First Beau" |
| 1980 | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Old Lady in Music Store | Tommy Chong | uncredited; final film role |
References
- ^ Mary B. Anderson as per United States census (Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama; Roll: 23; Page: 39B; Enumeration District: 13; Image: 794.0; FHL microfilm: 2339758. Ancestry.com.
1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Friend Mickey Kuhn - ^ "Necrology for 2014". Nostalgia Digest. 41 (2): 16–23. Spring 2015.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M., III (2015). "Anderson, Mary". Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. McFarland. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4766-1961-3.
- ^ Noland, Claire (April 7, 2014). "Mary Anderson dies at 96; actress had role in 'Gone With the Wind'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 7, 2014.