Mary Anderson

• Name — Mary Anderson • Birth Name — Mary Bebe Anderson • Born — 3 April 1918 • Birthplace — Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. • Died — 6 April 2014 • Place of death — Burbank, California, U.S. • Resting Place — Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills • Other Names — Mary B. Anderson[1] • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1939–1965 • Children — 1 • Family — James Anderson (brother)

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.

• Illustration — Anderson in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) After two uncredited roles, Anderson 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. • Illustration — Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) with Hume Cronyn, Henry Hull, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Anderson and Canada Lee • Illustration — 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) • Illustration — Anderson with actor Charles Russell in Behind Green Lights (1946) In 1944, Anderson 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).

Anderson died from a stroke in Burbank, California, on April 6, 2014, at the age of 96.[3][4]

• 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 — H. Bruce Humberstone • 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

Mary Anderson was recorded at birth as Mary Bebe Anderson. The authorities additionally record the heading Mary Bebe Anderson. Her recorded language was English. She married Leon Shamroy.