Biographies: Mary Anderson - Actor

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An American actress, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 3, 1928, as Mary Bebe Anderson. She received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. She married Leonard M. Behrens (1940-1950), then she married photographer and director Leon Shamroy (1953-1974), with whom she had a child, and he remained with her until his death. Among her most important films are Gone with the Wind (1939), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Lifeboat (1944), and To Each His Own (1946). Mary Anderson studied at Howard College (now Samford University). Director George Cukor saw her and nominated her for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the movie Gone with the Wind (1939), but when Cukor left the film, the role went to Vivien Leigh, and she got a supporting role. She was actor James Anderson's sister, and she died on April 6, 2014, in Burbank, California, of a stroke.

• 16 March 2022
• Dalia Saad