Celebrity Biographies
Mary Anderson
They are carried away not by the wind, but by death, the passage of time does not forgive. After the death last January of Alicia Rhett, it is now Mary Anderson, who composed the role of Maybelle Merriwether in “Gone with the Wind”, who passed away last Sunday, April 6 at the age of 96 years.
Mary Anderson’s acting star began to shine when she appeared at the wide casting that the Metro called to select Scarlet O’Hara from Gone with the Wind . George Cukor took notice of her, and although in the end the director would be relegated to Victor Fleming ‘s advantage , and Vivien Leigh landed the role of the legendary character, Anderson was at least able to play Maybelle Merriwether, Scarlet’s cousin, with a minimal presence, if less. gave a stone
Mary Anderson was a southerner, as that role claimed, she had been born in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 3, 1920. So at 19 years old to be in a blockbuster of the magnitude of Gone with the Wind was to see a dream come true . dream, even if he didn’t become a superstar. Her brother De ella James de ella, whom she was a year older, would also have an acting career.
With Alfred Hitchcock , she was a nurse in the middle of the ocean with eight other companions in Shipwrecked (1944), and she also had a presence under the orders of Henry King in the film about the apparitions of the Virgin in Lourdes The Song of Bernadette (1943), and as the president’s daughter in Wilson (1944). Perhaps her most important role was in The Intimate Life of Julia Norris ( Mitchell Leisen , 1946), alongside Olivia de Havilland , who survives her. The last years of her career would be dedicated mainly to television, in series like Peyton Place .
The actress went through two marriages, the second one with the legendary cinematographer Leon Shamroy , winner of 4 Oscars, and who precisely photographed her in Wilson . With him she had her only child, who unfortunately died when she was only 2 months old.