Background
Mary B. "Bebe" Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.
Mary B. "Bebe" Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.
She attended Howard College (now Samford University).
She was best known for her small supporting role in the iconic film Gone With the Wind. Her younger brother James Anderson (1921–1969) was also an actor, best-known as Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). After two uncredited roles, she made her first important screen appearance in.
After auditioning as one of the 1,400 actresses involved in the search for Scarlett, she received the supporting role of Maybelle Merriweather.
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). Often confused with the stage actress Mary Anderson (1859–1940) or the silent film actress Mary Anderson (1897–1986), Mary Anderson appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and was first credited under her birth name in a 1940 short film.
Mary Anderson died on April 6, 2014 in Burbank, California, three days after her 96th birthday.
Her death leaves two surviving Gone With the Wind credited cast members. Those actors are Mickey Kuhn and Olivia de Havilland, who played the roles of Beau Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton, respectively.