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Mary Anderson, a redheaded actress who auditioned for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 epic "Gone With the Wind" but wound up playing a supporting role as Maybelle Merriwether, died Sunday. She was 96.
A longtime resident of Brentwood, Anderson died under hospice care in Burbank. She had been in declining health and had suffered a series of small strokes, said her longtime friend Betty Landess.
Anderson was one of the last surviving cast members of the film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's Civil War novel. Among the credited actors still living are Olivia de Havilland, who was...