Mary Forbes
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1882-12-30
Day of Death
1974-07-22 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Mary Forbes
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.
Known For
Acting
(1958)
Houseboat
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
(1952)
Les Miserables
as Nun (uncredited)
(1948)
The Black Arrow
as Nun (uncredited)
(1948)
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Aunt Martha
(1947)
The Exile
as Second Court Lady
(1947)
Ivy
as Lady Crail (uncredited)
(1947)
It Had to Be You
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
(1947)
The Judge Steps Out
as Margaret (uncredited)
(1947)
Cigarette Girl
as Mrs. Halstead
(1946)
Terror by Night
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
(1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lady Agatha
(1945)
(1945)
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Queen Mother Elena
(1945)
I'll Remember April
as Mrs. Barrington
(1944)
Tender Comrade
as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
(1943)
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Eshton
(1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mrs. Pettibone
(1943)
Mr. Lucky
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
(1943)
Dangerous Blondes
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
(1943)
Two Tickets to London
as Dame Dunne Hartley
(1942)
This Above All
as Vicar's Wife
(1942)
(1942)
Klondike Fury
as Mrs. Langton
(1942)
Almost Married
as Mrs. Marvin
(1942)
The Great Impersonation
as Lady Leslie Clayfair
(1941)
Nothing But the Truth
as Mrs. Ralston
(1941)
Back Street
as Mrs. Williams
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
(1940)
Florian
as Grandmother
(1940)
South of Suez
as Mrs. Putnam
(1940)
Blame It on Love
as Mrs. Wadsworth
(1940)
Private Affairs
as Mrs. Stanley
(1940)
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
(1939)
Ninotchka
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
(1939)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
(1939)
The Sun Never Sets
as Mrs. Randolph
(1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Lady Conyngham
(1939)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Mrs. Withers
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Lady Hilda (uncredited)
(1939)
These Glamour Girls
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
(1939)
I Stole a Million
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
(1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Mrs. Gaynes
(1939)
Risky Business
as Mrs. Jameson
(1939)
Outside These Walls
as Gertrude Bishop
(1939)
Fast and Loose
as Mrs. Torrent
(1938)
You Can't Take It with You
as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
(1938)
Always Goodbye
as Aunt Martha Marshall
(1938)
The Rage of Paris
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
(1938)
Everybody Sing
as Miss Colvin
(1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Mrs. Hanson
(1938)
Outside of Paradise
as Mrs. Stonewall
(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)
Another Dawn
as Mrs. Lydia Benton
(1937)
Wee Willie Winkie
as Mrs. MacMonachie
(1937)
Women of Glamour
as Mrs. Stark
(1937)
The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Saunders
(1936)
Wedding Present
as Mrs. Dodacker
(1936)
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
(1936)
The White Angel
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
(1935)
Les Misérables
as Mlle. Baptiseme
(1935)
Captain Blood
as Mrs. Steed
(1935)
(1935)
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
(1935)
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
(1935)
Stranded
as Grace Dean (uncredited)
(1935)
The Perfect Gentleman
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
(1935)
Dizzy Dames
as Mrs. Stokes
(1935)
The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Lady Holloway
(1934)
Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Travis
(1934)
British Agent
as Lady Catherine Trehearne
(1934)
She Was a Lady
as Lady Diana Vane
(1934)
We Live Again
as Mrs. Kortchagin
(1934)
Sadie McKee
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
(1934)
Blind Date
as Mrs. Hartwell
(1934)
Shock
as Lady Heatherly
(1934)
A Lost Lady
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
(1934)
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Mrs. Kelsey
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as Kate Farley
(1934)
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
(1933)
Cavalcade
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
(1933)
Bombshell
as Mrs. Middleton
(1932)
A Farewell to Arms
as Miss Van Campen
(1932)
Vanity Fair
as Mrs. Sedley
(1932)
The Silent Witness
as Lady Howard
(1931)
Born to Love
as The Duchess (uncredited)
(1931)
The Man Who Came Back
as Mrs. Gaynes
(1931)
The Brat
as Mrs. Forester
(1931)
Working Girls
as Mrs. Johnstone
(1931)
Chances
as Mrs. Ingleside
(1930)
Abraham Lincoln
as Actress (uncredited)
(1930)
The Devil to Pay!
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
(1930)
Holiday
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
(1930)
So This Is London
as Lady Worthing
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
(1930)
East Is West
as Mrs. Benson
(1929)
The Trespasser
as Mrs. Ferguson
(1929)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alice Crosby
(1929)
Sunny Side Up
as Mrs. Cromwell
(1929)
Her Private Life
as Ladu Wildering
(1919)
(1919)
The Lady Clare
as Lady Julia Medwin
(1918)
The Woman's Portion
as Lizzie