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Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes

Actor · 1882–1974 · Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 107

1940s

  1. 1948

    You Gotta Stay Happy

    Aunt Martha

  2. The Black Arrow

    Nun (uncredited)

  3. 1947

    The Judge Steps Out

    Margaret (uncredited)

  4. It Had to Be You

    Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)

  5. The Exile

    Second Court Lady

  6. Ivy

    Lady Crail (uncredited)

  7. Cigarette Girl

    Mrs. Halstead

  8. 1946

    Terror by Night

    Lady Margaret Carstairs

    69
  9. 1945

    Lady on a Train

    Movie

  10. Earl Carroll Vanities

    Queen Mother Elena

  11. I'll Remember April

    Mrs. Barrington

  12. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Lady Agatha

    76
  13. 1944

    Tender Comrade

    Jo's Mother (uncredited)

  14. 1943

    Jane Eyre

    Mrs. Eshton

    80

  15. Dangerous Blondes

    Isabel Fleming (uncredited)

  16. Mr. Lucky

    War Relief Worker (uncredited)

    79

  17. Two Tickets to London

    Dame Dunne Hartley

  18. Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    Mrs. Pettibone

    67
  19. 1942

    The Great Impersonation

    Lady Leslie Clayfair

  20. Almost Married

    Mrs. Marvin

  21. This Above All

    Vicar's Wife

  22. Twin Beds

    Movie

  23. Klondike Fury

    Mrs. Langton

  24. 1941

    Nothing but the Truth

    Mrs. Ralston

  25. Back Street

    Mrs. Williams

  26. 1940

    South of Suez

    Mrs. Putnam

  27. All This, and Heaven Too

    Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)

    76

  28. Private Affairs

    Mrs. Stanley

  29. Blame It on Love

    Mrs. Wadsworth

  30. Florian

    Grandmother

  31. Laddie

    Mrs. Anna Pryor

1930s

  1. 1939

    Ninotchka

    Lady Lavenham (uncredited)

    82

  2. Hollywood Cavalcade

    Mrs. Gaynes

  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Lady Conyngham

  4. These Glamour Girls

    Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)

  5. I Stole a Million

    Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)

  6. The Sun Never Sets

    Mrs. Randolph

  7. Outside These Walls

    Gertrude Bishop

  8. Three Smart Girls Grow Up

    Mrs. Withers

  9. The Ice Follies of 1939

    Lady Hilda (uncredited)

  10. Risky Business

    Mrs. Jameson

  11. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

    Mrs. Bel-Goodie

  12. Fast and Loose

    Mrs. Torrent

  13. 1938

    Three Loves Has Nancy

    Mrs. Hanson

  14. You Can't Take It with You

    Mrs. Anthony Kirby

    82

  15. Always Goodbye

    Aunt Martha Marshall

  16. The Rage of Paris

    Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)

    66

  17. Outside of Paradise

    Mrs. Stonewall

  18. Everybody Sing

    Miss Colvin

  19. What Do You Think? (Number Three)

    Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)

  20. 1937

    The Awful Truth

    Mrs. Vance

    81

  21. Stage Door

    Cast of Stage Play

  22. One Hundred Men and a Girl

    Concert Hall Patron

  23. The Life of the Party

    Mrs. Saunders

  24. Wee Willie Winkie

    Mrs. MacMonachie

    68

  25. Another Dawn

    Mrs. Lydia Benton

  26. Women of Glamour

    Mrs. Stark

  27. 1936

    Theodora Goes Wild

    Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)

  28. Wedding Present

    Mrs. Dodacker

  29. The White Angel

    Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)

  30. 1935

    Captain Blood

    Mrs. Steed

  31. The Widow from Monte Carlo

    Lady Holloway

  32. The Perfect Gentleman

    Lady Clyffe-Pembrook

  33. Rendezvous

    Lady Cavendish (uncredited)

  34. Anna Karenina

    Princess Sorokina

  35. Stranded

    Grace Dean (uncredited)

  36. Dizzy Dames

    Mrs. Stokes

  37. Les Misérables

    Mlle. Baptiseme

  38. Laddie

    Mrs. Anna Pryor

  39. Roberta

    (uncredited)

    73
  40. 1934

    We Live Again

    Mrs. Kortchagin

  41. Happiness Ahead

    Mrs. Travis

  42. Two Heads on a Pillow

    Mrs. Caroline Devonshire

  43. A Lost Lady

    Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)

    59

  44. British Agent

    Lady Catherine Trehearne

    60

  45. She Was a Lady

    Lady Diana Vane

  46. Blind Date

    Mrs. Hartwell

  47. Shock

    Lady Heatherly

  48. Most Precious Thing in Life

    Mrs. Kelsey

  49. Sadie McKee

    Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)

  50. You Can't Buy Everything

    Kate Farley

  51. 1933

    Bombshell

    Mrs. Middleton

    76

  52. Cavalcade

    Duchess of Churt (uncredited)

    61
  53. 1932

    A Farewell to Arms

    Miss Van Campen

    70

  54. Vanity Fair

    Mrs. Sedley

  55. The Silent Witness

    Lady Howard

  56. 1931

    Working Girls

    Mrs. Johnstone

  57. The Brat

    Mrs. Forester

  58. Chances

    Mrs. Ingleside

  59. Born to Love

    The Duchess (uncredited)

  60. The Man Who Came Back

    Mrs. Gaynes

  61. 1930

    The Devil to Pay!

    Mrs. Hope (uncredited)

    64

  62. Abraham Lincoln

    Actress (uncredited)

    61

  63. East Is West

    Mrs. Benson

  64. Holiday

    Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)

    63

  65. So This Is London

    Lady Worthing

  66. Strictly Unconventional

    Mrs. Anna Shenstone

1920s

  1. 1929

    Sunny Side Up

    Mrs. Cromwell

  2. The Trespasser

    Mrs. Ferguson

  3. The Thirteenth Chair

    Lady Alice Crosby

  4. Her Private Life

    Ladu Wildering

1910s

  1. 1919

    Women Who Win

    Movie

  2. The Lady Clare

    Lady Julia Medwin