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