Another golden age actor passes. Given how many of us have collected or sold
posters from this era, we are witnessing the passing of so many stars that made
the paper possible.
That said, Luise Rainer is 104.
Actress Mary Anderson has died at the age of 96. A redheaded native of
Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson was once a dark horse candidate for the role of
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind. She was invited to audition by the
film’s original director, George Cukor, who used her in an uncredited bit part
in The Women(1939). In the end, Cukor was replaced by Victor Fleming, and
Anderson didn’t get the job. But her first credited role in a motion picture
was in Gone With The Wind. As a consolation prize, she was cast in the small
role of Scarlett’s cousin, Maybelle Merriwether. Anderson’s death leaves just
two surviving cast members of that classic movie: Olivia de Havilland and her
on-screen son, Mickey Kuhn.
Anderson went on to roles in All This, And Heaven Too (1940),Cheers For Miss
Bishop (1941), The Song Of Bernadette (1943),Wilson (1944), and I, The Jury
(1953). Her most notable movie role may have been in Alfred Hitchcock’s
Lifeboat (1944), in which she played the stoic nurse who—among other crises—has
to help restrain a grieving mother whose baby has just been given a burial at
sea.
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