Mary Forbes
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Mary Forbes (1 January 1883 – 22 July 1974), born Ethel Louise Young, was a British-American film actress, based in the United States in her latter years, where she died. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1919 and 1958.
Forbes was born in Hornsey, England.
She made her first public appearance on the concert platform giving recitals. Her acting debut was in 1908 on the London stage at Aldwych Theatre. Her American stage debut came in Romance at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in 1913.
She took over management of the Ambassadors Theatre in 1913 and had several years experience on stage in Britain and America before her appearances in Hollywood films. Two of her three children by her first marriage in the first quarter of 1904 to Ernest J. Taylor, Ralph and Dorothy Brenda, known as Brenda, were also actors. The middle child of the three, Phyllis Mary Taylor, was not in the acting business. Her second husband was British actor Charles Quartermaine, who married in 1925; the union ended in divorce. She married her third husband, Wesley Wall, an American businessman, in 1935; the couple remained married until her death in 1974.
She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943, with one of her character references being Lucile Webster Gleason, actress and wife of actor James Gleason.
Acted in
Houseboat
1958
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
Suspicion
1957
as Mrs. Merton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
Les Miserables
1952
as Nun (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
as Aunt Martha
The Judge Steps Out
1947
as Margaret (uncredited)
It Had to Be You
1947
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
The Exile
1947
as Second Court Lady
Ivy
1947
as Lady Crail (uncredited)
Cigarette Girl
1947
as Mrs. Halstead
Terror by Night
1946
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
Lady on a Train
1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
as Queen Mother Elena
I'll Remember April
1945
as Mrs. Barrington
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Lady Agatha
Tender Comrade
1944
as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
1943
as Mrs. Eshton
Dangerous Blondes
1943
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
1943
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Two Tickets to London
1943
as Dame Dunne Hartley
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
as Mrs. Pettibone
The Great Impersonation
1942
as Lady Leslie Clayfair
Almost Married
1942
as Mrs. Marvin
This Above All
1942
as Vicar's Wife
Twin Beds
1942
Klondike Fury
1942
as Mrs. Langton
Nothing But the Truth
1941
as Mrs. Ralston
Back Street
1941
as Mrs. Williams
South of Suez
1940
as Mrs. Putnam
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Private Affairs
1940
as Mrs. Stanley
Blame It on Love
1940
as Mrs. Wadsworth
Florian
1940
as Grandmother
Laddie
1940
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
Ninotchka
1939
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
as Mrs. Gaynes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Lady Conyngham
These Glamour Girls
1939
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
I Stole a Million
1939
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
The Sun Never Sets
1939
as Mrs. Randolph
Outside These Walls
1939
as Gertrude Bishop
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
as Mrs. Withers
The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
as Lady Hilda
Risky Business
1939
as Mrs. Jameson
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Fast and Loose
1939
as Mrs. Torrent
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
as Mrs. Hanson
You Can't Take It with You
1938
as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Always Goodbye
1938
as Aunt Martha Marshall
The Rage of Paris
1938
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Outside of Paradise
1938
as Mrs. Stonewall
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
1938
as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
Everybody Sing
1938
as Miss Colvin
The Awful Truth
1937
as Mrs. Vance
Stage Door
1937
as Cast of Stage Play
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
as Concert Hall Patron
The Life of the Party
1937
as Mrs. Saunders
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
as Mrs. MacMonachie
Another Dawn
1937
as Mrs. Lydia Benton
Women of Glamour
1937
as Mrs. Stark
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
Wedding Present
1936
as Mrs. Dodacker
The White Angel
1936
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Captain Blood
1935
as Mrs. Steed
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
as Lady Holloway
The Perfect Gentleman
1935
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Rendezvous
1935
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Anna Karenina
1935
Stranded
1935
as Grace Dean (uncredited)
Dizzy Dames
1935
as Mrs. Stokes
Les Misérables
1935
as Mlle. Baptiseme
Laddie
1935
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
Roberta
1935
We Live Again
1934
as Mrs. Kortchagin
Happiness Ahead
1934
as Mrs. Travis
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
A Lost Lady
1934
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
British Agent
1934
as Lady Catherine Trehearne
She Was a Lady
1934
as Lady Diana Vane
Blind Date
1934
as Mrs. Hartwell
Shock
1934
as Lady Heatherly
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934
as Mrs. Kelsey
Sadie McKee
1934
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
as Kate Farley
Bombshell
1933
as Mrs. Middleton
Cavalcade
1933
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
A Farewell to Arms
1932
as Miss Van Campen
Vanity Fair
1932
as Mrs. Sedley
The Silent Witness
1932
as Lady Howard
Working Girls
1931
as Mrs. Johnstone
The Brat
1931
as Mrs. Forester
Chances
1931
as Mrs. Ingleside
Born to Love
1931
as The Duchess (uncredited)
The Man Who Came Back
1931
as Mrs. Gaynes
The Devil to Pay!
1930
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln
1930
as Actress (uncredited)
East Is West
1930
as Mrs. Benson
Holiday
1930
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
So This Is London
1930
as Lady Worthing
Strictly Unconventional
1930
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Sunny Side Up
1929
as Mrs. Cromwell
The Trespasser
1929
as Mrs. Ferguson
The Thirteenth Chair
1929
as Lady Alice Crosby
Her Private Life
1929
as Ladu Wildering
Women Who Win
1919
The Lady Clare
1919
as Lady Julia Medwin
The Woman's Portion
1918
as Lizzie