Mary Anderson (actress)
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- For the stage actress Mary Anderson (1859-1940), see Mary Anderson (stage actress)
Mary Anderson (born Bebe Anderson, April 3, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama) was a film and television actress. Many times confused with the stage actress of the same name (1859-1940), Mary Anderson appeared in a number of films in the 1940s.
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Anderson in Lifeboat (1944) |
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Born | Bebe Anderson April 3, 1920 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
Occupation | Film, television actress |
Spouse(s) | Leon Shamroy (1953-1974) |
When she was sixteen, Anderson made her first screen appearance as Maybelle Meriweather in Gone With the Wind (1939). Ending her film career in the early 1950s, she occasionally acted on television, for example, as Catherine Harrington in the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place.
Anderson was married to cinematographer Leon Shamroy from 1953 to his death in 1974. She was sometimes credited under her birth name Bebe Anderson.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- The Song of Bernadette (1943)
- Lifeboat (1944)
- Wilson (1944)
- Whispering City (1947)
- The Underworld Story (1950)
- I, the Jury (1953)