Mary Anderson Movies
Sixteen-year-old Alabaman Mary Anderson made her first screen appearance as Maybelle Meriweather in
Gone With the Wind (1939). As a 20th Century-Fox contractee in the mid-1940s, she was seen in Hitchcock's
Lifeboat (1943) and in the lavish biopic
Wilson (1944). She ended her film career in 1953, occasionally reemerging on television, notably in the role of Catherine Harrington on the prime-time soaper
Peyton Place. Mary Anderson was married to cinematographer Leon Shamroy, whom she met on the set of
Wilson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
