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