Mary Forbes
106 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 30, 1882
- Died
- Jul 22, 1974 (age 91)
- Place of birth
- Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
- Also known as
- Ethel Louise Young
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.
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.5 You Can't Take It with You
1938 · Film
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★ 7.5 Ninotchka
1939 · Film
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★ 7.2 The Awful Truth
1937 · Film
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★ 7.1 The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Film
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★ 7.3 Captain Blood
1935 · Film
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★ 7.8 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV
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★ 6.4 Houseboat
1958 · Film
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★ 6.9 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 · Film
Mary Forbes: movies and TV shows
Acting (108)
- 1958 Houseboat
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
- 1957
- 1955
- 1952 Les Miserables
as Nun (uncredited)
- 1948 You Gotta Stay Happy
as Aunt Martha
- 1948 The Black Arrow
as Nun (uncredited)
- 1947 The Judge Steps Out
as Margaret (uncredited)
- 1947 It Had to Be You
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
- 1947 The Exile
as Second Court Lady
- 1947 Ivy
as Lady Crail (uncredited)
- 1947 Cigarette Girl
as Mrs. Halstead
- 1946 Terror by Night
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
- 1945
- 1945 Earl Carroll Vanities
as Queen Mother Elena
- 1945 I'll Remember April
as Mrs. Barrington
- 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lady Agatha
- 1944 Tender Comrade
as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
- 1943 Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Eshton
- 1943 Dangerous Blondes
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
- 1943 Mr. Lucky
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
- 1943 Two Tickets to London
as Dame Dunne Hartley
- 1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mrs. Pettibone
- 1942 The Great Impersonation
as Lady Leslie Clayfair
- 1942 Almost Married
as Mrs. Marvin
- 1942 This Above All
as Vicar's Wife
- 1942
- 1942 Klondike Fury
as Mrs. Langton
- 1941 Nothing but the Truth
as Mrs. Ralston
- 1941 Back Street
as Mrs. Williams
- 1940 South of Suez
as Mrs. Putnam
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
- 1940 Private Affairs
as Mrs. Stanley
- 1940 Blame It on Love
as Mrs. Wadsworth
- 1940 Florian
as Grandmother
- 1940 Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
- 1939 Ninotchka
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
- 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
as Mrs. Gaynes
- 1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Lady Conyngham
- 1939 These Glamour Girls
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
- 1939 I Stole a Million
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
- 1939 The Sun Never Sets
as Mrs. Randolph
- 1939 Outside These Walls
as Gertrude Bishop
- 1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Mrs. Withers
- 1939 The Ice Follies of 1939
as Lady Hilda (uncredited)
- 1939 Risky Business
as Mrs. Jameson
- 1939 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
- 1939 Fast and Loose
as Mrs. Torrent
- 1938 Three Loves Has Nancy
as Mrs. Hanson
- 1938 You Can't Take It with You
as Mrs. Anthony Kirby
- 1938 Always Goodbye
as Aunt Martha Marshall
- 1938 The Rage of Paris
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
- 1938 Outside of Paradise
as Mrs. Stonewall
- 1938 Everybody Sing
as Miss Colvin
- 1938 What Do You Think? (Number Three)
as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
- 1937 The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Vance
- 1937 Stage Door
as Cast of Stage Play
- 1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl
as Concert Hall Patron
- 1937 The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Saunders
- 1937 Wee Willie Winkie
as Mrs. MacMonachie
- 1937 Another Dawn
as Mrs. Lydia Benton
- 1937 Women of Glamour
as Mrs. Stark
- 1936 Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
- 1936 Wedding Present
as Mrs. Dodacker
- 1936 The White Angel
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
- 1935 Captain Blood
as Mrs. Steed
- 1935 The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Lady Holloway
- 1935 The Perfect Gentleman
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
- 1935 Rendezvous
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
- 1935 Anna Karenina
as Princess Sorokina
- 1935 Stranded
as Grace Dean (uncredited)
- 1935 Dizzy Dames
as Mrs. Stokes
- 1935 Les Misérables
as Mlle. Baptiseme
- 1935 Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
- 1935 Roberta
as (uncredited)
- 1934 We Live Again
as Mrs. Kortchagin
- 1934 Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Travis
- 1934 Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
- 1934 A Lost Lady
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
- 1934 British Agent
as Lady Catherine Trehearne
- 1934 She Was a Lady
as Lady Diana Vane
- 1934 Blind Date
as Mrs. Hartwell
- 1934 Shock
as Lady Heatherly
- 1934 Most Precious Thing in Life
as Mrs. Kelsey
- 1934 Sadie McKee
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
- 1934 You Can't Buy Everything
as Kate Farley
- 1933 Bombshell
as Mrs. Middleton
- 1933 Cavalcade
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
- 1932 A Farewell to Arms
as Miss Van Campen
- 1932 Vanity Fair
as Mrs. Sedley
- 1932 The Silent Witness
as Lady Howard
- 1931 Working Girls
as Mrs. Johnstone
- 1931 The Brat
as Mrs. Forester
- 1931 Chances
as Mrs. Ingleside
- 1931 Born to Love
as The Duchess (uncredited)
- 1931 The Man Who Came Back
as Mrs. Gaynes
- 1930 The Devil to Pay!
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
- 1930 Abraham Lincoln
as Actress (uncredited)
- 1930 East Is West
as Mrs. Benson
- 1930 Holiday
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
- 1930 So This Is London
as Lady Worthing
- 1930 Strictly Unconventional
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
- 1929 Sunny Side Up
as Mrs. Cromwell
- 1929 The Trespasser
as Mrs. Ferguson
- 1929 The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alice Crosby
- 1929 Her Private Life
as Ladu Wildering
- 1919
- 1919 The Lady Clare
as Lady Julia Medwin
- 1918 The Woman's Portion
as Lizzie