Mary Anderson, one of the last surviving cast members from Gone With the Wind, passed away at the age of 96 on Sunday.
Anderson died in Burbank, Calif. while in hospice care, her friend Betty Landess told the Los Angeles Times. The actress had suffered several small strokes and her health was on the downswing.
She originally auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, but ended up getting the part of Maybelle Merriwether. The only remaining credited cast members still living are Academy Award-nominated Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Kuhn.
Anderson was up for the role of O'Hara in the classic 1939 film after being discovered by George Cukor while attending college. She lost out on the role after producer David O. Selznick fired Cukor from the director chair.
She appeared in plenty of others films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She had a part in the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat. She was also in Flight Angels, To Each His Own and even played Eleanor, President Woodrow Wilson's daughter, in Wilson.
She married the late Leon Shamrow, who was an Academy Award-winning cinematographer. He won for Cleopatra, Leaver Her to Heaven, Wilson and The Black Swan. During his career, he was nominated 18 times.