Mary Forbes

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.

Cast

Theodora Goes Wild

(Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited))

Terror by Night

(Lady Margaret Carstairs)

Laddie

(Mrs. Anna Pryor)

Almost Married

(Mrs. Marvin)

A Farewell to Arms

(Miss Van Campen)

You Can't Take It with You

(Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby)

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

(Mrs. Bel-Goodie)

The Awful Truth

(Mrs. Vance)

Bombshell

(Mrs. Middleton)

Les Misérables

(Mlle. Baptiseme)

Roberta

She Was a Lady

(Lady Diana Vane)

Captain Blood

(Mrs. Steed)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(Lady Conyngham)

British Agent

(Lady Catherine Trehearne)

Tender Comrade

(Jo's Mother (uncredited))

The Trespasser

(Mrs. Ferguson)

Outside These Walls

(Gertrude Bishop)

Sunny Side Up

(Mrs. Cromwell)

Nothing But the Truth

(Mrs. Ralston)

Rendezvous

(Lady Cavendish (uncredited))

Les Miserables

(Nun (uncredited))

Back Street

(Mrs. Williams)

The Thirteenth Chair

(Lady Alice Crosby)

Houseboat

(British Society Woman (uncredited))

The Man Who Came Back

(Mrs. Gaynes)

East Is West

(Mrs. Benson)

Always Goodbye

(Aunt Martha Marshall)

You Can't Buy Everything

(Kate Farley)

Lady on a Train

Chances

(Mrs. Ingleside)

The Sun Never Sets

(Mrs. Randolph)

A Lost Lady

(Mrs. Hardy (uncredited))

The Woman's Portion

(Lizzie)

Two Tickets to London

(Dame Dunne Hartley)

Working Girls

(Mrs. Johnstone)

Everybody Sing

(Miss Colvin)

Three Loves Has Nancy

(Mrs. Hanson)

Outside of Paradise

(Mrs. Stonewall)

Strictly Unconventional

(Mrs. Anna Shenstone)

Blind Date

(Mrs. Hartwell)

Blame It on Love

(Mrs. Wadsworth)

Ivy

(Lady Crail (uncredited))

Risky Business

(Mrs. Jameson)

Most Precious Thing in Life

(Mrs. Kelsey)

Women Who Win

Laddie

(Mrs. Anna Pryor)

The Life of the Party

(Mrs. Saunders)

Two Heads on a Pillow

(Mrs. Caroline Devonshire)

Happiness Ahead

(Mrs. Travis)

The Devil to Pay!

(Mrs. Hope (uncredited))

Hollywood Cavalcade

(Mrs. Gaynes)

South of Suez

(Mrs. Putnam)

The White Angel

(Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited))

Born to Love

(The Duchess (uncredited))

Fast and Loose

(Mrs. Torrent)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

(Mrs. Withers)

These Glamour Girls

(Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited))

We Live Again

(Mrs. Kortchagin)

The Perfect Gentleman

(Lady Clyffe-Pembrook)

Ninotchka

(Lady Lavenham (uncredited))

Cavalcade

(Duchess of Churt (uncredited))

The Judge Steps Out

(Margaret (uncredited))

Women of Glamour

(Mrs. Stark)

Another Dawn

(Mrs. Lydia Benton)

Shock

(Lady Heatherly)

All This, and Heaven Too

(Lady at the Theatre (uncredited))

The Silent Witness

(Lady Howard)

The Brat

(Mrs. Forester)

It Had to Be You

(Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited))

Florian

(Grandmother)

Dangerous Blondes

(Isabel Fleming (uncredited))

Klondike Fury

(Mrs. Langton)

Wee Willie Winkie

(Mrs. MacMonachie)

Wedding Present

(Mrs. Dodacker)

Earl Carroll Vanities

(Queen Mother Elena)

Cigarette Girl

(Mrs. Halstead)

Vanity Fair

(Mrs. Sedley)

I Stole a Million

(Flower Shop Customer (uncredited))

Twin Beds

The Great Impersonation

(Lady Leslie Clayfair)

The Widow from Monte Carlo

(Lady Holloway)

Stranded

(Grace Dean (uncredited))

The Picture of Dorian Gray

(Lady Agatha)

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

(Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited))

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

(Mrs. Pettibone)

So This Is London

(Lady Worthing)

Jane Eyre

(Mrs. Eshton)

Mr. Lucky

(War Relief Worker (uncredited))

The Rage of Paris

(Woman in Opera Box (uncredited))

The Exile

(Second Court Lady)

Stage Door

(Cast of Stage Play)

Abraham Lincoln

(Actress (uncredited))

Anna Karenina

I'll Remember April

(Mrs. Barrington)

Private Affairs

(Mrs. Stanley)

Her Private Life

(Ladu Wildering)

You Gotta Stay Happy

(Aunt Martha)

This Above All

(Vicar's Wife)

One Hundred Men and a Girl

(Concert Hall Patron)

Dizzy Dames

(Mrs. Stokes)

The Ice Follies of 1939

(Lady Hilda (Uncredited))

Holiday

(Mrs. Pritchard Ames)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Mrs. Herbert Winthrop)

Suspicion

(Mrs. Merton)