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.
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Films (106)
Houseboat
1958 · British Society Woman (uncredited)
Les Miserables
1952 · Nun (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · Aunt Martha
The Black Arrow
1948 · Nun (uncredited)
The Judge Steps Out
1947 · Margaret (uncredited)
It Had to Be You
1947 · Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
The Exile
1947 · Second Court Lady
Ivy
1947 · Lady Crail (uncredited)
Cigarette Girl
1947 · Mrs. Halstead
Terror by Night
1946 · Lady Margaret Carstairs
Lady on a Train
1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945 · Queen Mother Elena
I'll Remember April
1945 · Mrs. Barrington
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Lady Agatha
Tender Comrade
1944 · Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
1943 · Mrs. Eshton
Dangerous Blondes
1943 · Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
1943 · War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Two Tickets to London
1943 · Dame Dunne Hartley
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 · Mrs. Pettibone
The Great Impersonation
1942 · Lady Leslie Clayfair
Almost Married
1942 · Mrs. Marvin
This Above All
1942 · Vicar's Wife
Twin Beds
1942
Klondike Fury
1942 · Mrs. Langton
Nothing but the Truth
1941 · Mrs. Ralston
Back Street
1941 · Mrs. Williams
South of Suez
1940 · Mrs. Putnam
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Private Affairs
1940 · Mrs. Stanley
Blame It on Love
1940 · Mrs. Wadsworth
Florian
1940 · Grandmother
Laddie
1940 · Mrs. Anna Pryor
Ninotchka
1939 · Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Mrs. Gaynes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 · Lady Conyngham
These Glamour Girls
1939 · Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
I Stole a Million
1939 · Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
The Sun Never Sets
1939 · Mrs. Randolph
Outside These Walls
1939 · Gertrude Bishop
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939 · Mrs. Withers
The Ice Follies of 1939
1939 · Lady Hilda (uncredited)
Risky Business
1939 · Mrs. Jameson
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939 · Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Fast and Loose
1939 · Mrs. Torrent
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938 · Mrs. Hanson
You Can't Take It with You
1938 · Mrs. Anthony Kirby
Always Goodbye
1938 · Aunt Martha Marshall
The Rage of Paris
1938 · Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Outside of Paradise
1938 · Mrs. Stonewall
Everybody Sing
1938 · Miss Colvin
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
1938 · Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
The Awful Truth
1937 · Mrs. Vance
Stage Door
1937 · Cast of Stage Play
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937 · Concert Hall Patron
The Life of the Party
1937 · Mrs. Saunders
Wee Willie Winkie
1937 · Mrs. MacMonachie
Another Dawn
1937 · Mrs. Lydia Benton
Women of Glamour
1937 · Mrs. Stark
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
Wedding Present
1936 · Mrs. Dodacker
The White Angel
1936 · Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Captain Blood
1935 · Mrs. Steed
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935 · Lady Holloway
The Perfect Gentleman
1935 · Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Rendezvous
1935 · Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Anna Karenina
1935 · Princess Sorokina
Stranded
1935 · Grace Dean (uncredited)
Dizzy Dames
1935 · Mrs. Stokes
Les Misérables
1935 · Mlle. Baptiseme
Laddie
1935 · Mrs. Anna Pryor
Roberta
1935 · (uncredited)
We Live Again
1934 · Mrs. Kortchagin
Happiness Ahead
1934 · Mrs. Travis
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934 · Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
A Lost Lady
1934 · Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
British Agent
1934 · Lady Catherine Trehearne
She Was a Lady
1934 · Lady Diana Vane
Blind Date
1934 · Mrs. Hartwell
Shock
1934 · Lady Heatherly
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934 · Mrs. Kelsey
Sadie McKee
1934 · Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
You Can't Buy Everything
1934 · Kate Farley
Bombshell
1933 · Mrs. Middleton
Cavalcade
1933 · Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Miss Van Campen
Vanity Fair
1932 · Mrs. Sedley
The Silent Witness
1932 · Lady Howard
Working Girls
1931 · Mrs. Johnstone
The Brat
1931 · Mrs. Forester
Chances
1931 · Mrs. Ingleside
Born to Love
1931 · The Duchess (uncredited)
The Man Who Came Back
1931 · Mrs. Gaynes
The Devil to Pay!
1930 · Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · Actress (uncredited)
East Is West
1930 · Mrs. Benson
Holiday
1930 · Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
So This Is London
1930 · Lady Worthing
Strictly Unconventional
1930 · Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Sunny Side Up
1929 · Mrs. Cromwell
The Trespasser
1929 · Mrs. Ferguson
The Thirteenth Chair
1929 · Lady Alice Crosby
Her Private Life
1929 · Ladu Wildering
Women Who Win
1919
The Lady Clare
1919 · Lady Julia Medwin
The Woman's Portion
1918 · Lizzie
