Name
Mary Forbes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1882-12-30
Deathday
1974-07-22 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Biography
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.
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- 1936 Theodora Goes Wild as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
- 1946 Terror by Night as Lady Margaret Carstairs
- 1935 Laddie as Mrs. Anna Pryor
- 1942 Almost Married as Mrs. Marvin
- 1932 A Farewell to Arms as Miss Van Campen
- 1938 You Can't Take It with You as Mrs. Anthony Kirby
- 1939 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
- 1937 The Awful Truth as Mrs. Vance
- 1933 Bombshell as Mrs. Middleton
- 1935 Les Misérables as Mlle. Baptiseme
- 1935 Roberta as (uncredited)
- 1934 She Was a Lady as Lady Diana Vane
- 1935 Captain Blood as Mrs. Steed
- 1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Lady Conyngham
- 1934 British Agent as Lady Catherine Trehearne
- 1944 Tender Comrade as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
- 1929 The Trespasser as Mrs. Ferguson
- 1939 Outside These Walls as Gertrude Bishop
- 1929 Sunny Side Up as Mrs. Cromwell
- 1941 Nothing but the Truth as Mrs. Ralston
- 1935 Rendezvous as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
- 1952 Les Miserables as Nun (uncredited)
- 1941 Back Street as Mrs. Williams
- 1929 The Thirteenth Chair as Lady Alice Crosby
- 1958 Houseboat as British Society Woman (uncredited)
- 1931 The Man Who Came Back as Mrs. Gaynes
- 1930 East Is West as Mrs. Benson
- 1938 Always Goodbye as Aunt Martha Marshall
- 1934 You Can't Buy Everything as Kate Farley
- 1945 Lady on a Train
- 1931 Chances as Mrs. Ingleside
- 1939 The Sun Never Sets as Mrs. Randolph
- 1934 A Lost Lady as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
- 1918 The Woman's Portion as Lizzie
- 1943 Two Tickets to London as Dame Dunne Hartley
- 1931 Working Girls as Mrs. Johnstone
- 1938 Everybody Sing as Miss Colvin
- 1938 Three Loves Has Nancy as Mrs. Hanson
- 1938 Outside of Paradise as Mrs. Stonewall
- 1930 Strictly Unconventional as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
- 1934 Blind Date as Mrs. Hartwell
- 1940 Blame It on Love as Mrs. Wadsworth
- 1947 Ivy as Lady Crail (uncredited)
- 1939 Risky Business as Mrs. Jameson
- 1934 Most Precious Thing in Life as Mrs. Kelsey
- 1919 Women Who Win
- 1940 Laddie as Mrs. Anna Pryor
- 1937 The Life of the Party as Mrs. Saunders
- 1934 Two Heads on a Pillow as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
- 1934 Happiness Ahead as Mrs. Travis
- 1930 The Devil to Pay! as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
- 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade as Mrs. Gaynes
- 1940 South of Suez as Mrs. Putnam
- 1936 The White Angel as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
- 1931 Born to Love as The Duchess (uncredited)
- 1939 Fast and Loose as Mrs. Torrent
- 1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Mrs. Withers
- 1939 These Glamour Girls as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
- 1934 We Live Again as Mrs. Kortchagin
- 1935 The Perfect Gentleman as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
- 1939 Ninotchka as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
- 1933 Cavalcade as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
- 1947 The Judge Steps Out as Margaret (uncredited)
- 1937 Women of Glamour as Mrs. Stark
- 1937 Another Dawn as Mrs. Lydia Benton
- 1934 Shock as Lady Heatherly
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
- 1932 The Silent Witness as Lady Howard
- 1931 The Brat as Mrs. Forester
- 1947 It Had to Be You as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
- 1940 Florian as Grandmother
- 1943 Dangerous Blondes as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
- 1942 Klondike Fury as Mrs. Langton
- 1937 Wee Willie Winkie as Mrs. MacMonachie
- 1936 Wedding Present as Mrs. Dodacker
- 1945 Earl Carroll Vanities as Queen Mother Elena
- 1947 Cigarette Girl as Mrs. Halstead
- 1932 Vanity Fair as Mrs. Sedley
- 1939 I Stole a Million as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
- 1942 Twin Beds
- 1942 The Great Impersonation as Lady Leslie Clayfair
- 1935 The Widow from Monte Carlo as Lady Holloway
- 1935 Stranded as Grace Dean (uncredited)
- 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lady Agatha
- 1938 What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
- 1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington as Mrs. Pettibone
- 1930 So This Is London as Lady Worthing
- 1943 Jane Eyre as Mrs. Eshton
- 1943 Mr. Lucky as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
- 1938 The Rage of Paris as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
- 1947 The Exile as Second Court Lady
- 1937 Stage Door as Cast of Stage Play
- 1930 Abraham Lincoln as Actress (uncredited)
- 1935 Anna Karenina as Princess Sorokina
- 1945 I'll Remember April as Mrs. Barrington
- 1940 Private Affairs as Mrs. Stanley
- 1929 Her Private Life as Ladu Wildering
- 1948 You Gotta Stay Happy as Aunt Martha
- 1942 This Above All as Vicar's Wife
- 1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl as Concert Hall Patron
- 1935 Dizzy Dames as Mrs. Stokes
- 1939 The Ice Follies of 1939 as Lady Hilda (uncredited)
- 1930 Holiday as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
- 1934 Sadie McKee as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
- 1919 The Lady Clare as Lady Julia Medwin
- 1948 The Black Arrow as Nun (uncredited)
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
- 1957 Suspicion ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Merton
