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)
Ivy
as Lady Crail (uncredited)
(1947)
It Had to Be You
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
(1947)
The Judge Steps Out
as Margaret (uncredited)
(1947)
The Exile
as Second Court Lady
(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)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mrs. Pettibone
(1943)
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Eshton
(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)
The Great Impersonation
as Lady Leslie Clayfair
(1942)
(1942)
Klondike Fury
as Mrs. Langton
(1942)
Almost Married
as Mrs. Marvin
(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)
Private Affairs
as Mrs. Stanley
(1940)
South of Suez
as Mrs. Putnam
(1940)
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
(1940)
Blame It on Love
as Mrs. Wadsworth
(1939)
Ninotchka
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
(1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Lady Conyngham
(1939)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
(1939)
Fast and Loose
as Mrs. Torrent
(1939)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Mrs. Withers
(1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Mrs. Gaynes
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Lady Hilda (uncredited)
(1939)
I Stole a Million
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
(1939)
The Sun Never Sets
as Mrs. Randolph
(1939)
Risky Business
as Mrs. Jameson
(1939)
These Glamour Girls
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
(1939)
Outside These Walls
as Gertrude Bishop
(1938)
You Can't Take It with You
as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
(1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Mrs. Hanson
(1938)
The Rage of Paris
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
(1938)
Always Goodbye
as Aunt Martha Marshall
(1938)
Everybody Sing
as Miss Colvin
(1938)
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
(1938)
Outside of Paradise
as Mrs. Stonewall
(1937)
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Vance
(1937)
Stage Door
as Cast of Stage Play
(1937)
Wee Willie Winkie
as Mrs. MacMonachie
(1937)
One Hundred Men and a Girl
as Concert Hall Patron
(1937)
The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Saunders
(1937)
Another Dawn
as Mrs. Lydia Benton
(1937)
Women of Glamour
as Mrs. Stark
(1936)
The White Angel
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
(1936)
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
(1936)
Wedding Present
as Mrs. Dodacker
(1935)
Les Misérables
as Mlle. Baptiseme
(1935)
(1935)
Captain Blood
as Mrs. Steed
(1935)
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
(1935)
Stranded
as Grace Dean (uncredited)
(1935)
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
(1935)
The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Lady Holloway
(1935)
The Perfect Gentleman
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
(1935)
Dizzy Dames
as Mrs. Stokes
(1934)
Sadie McKee
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
(1934)
We Live Again
as Mrs. Kortchagin
(1934)
Blind Date
as Mrs. Hartwell
(1934)
British Agent
as Lady Catherine Trehearne
(1934)
Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Travis
(1934)
Shock
as Lady Heatherly
(1934)
She Was a Lady
as Lady Diana Vane
(1934)
A Lost Lady
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as Kate Farley
(1934)
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
(1934)
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Mrs. Kelsey
(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)
Chances
as Mrs. Ingleside
(1931)
The Man Who Came Back
as Mrs. Gaynes
(1931)
Working Girls
as Mrs. Johnstone
(1931)
Born to Love
as The Duchess (uncredited)
(1931)
The Brat
as Mrs. Forester
(1930)
Abraham Lincoln
as Actress (uncredited)
(1930)
The Devil to Pay!
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
(1930)
Holiday
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
(1930)
East Is West
as Mrs. Benson
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
(1930)
So This Is London
as Lady Worthing
(1929)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alice Crosby
(1929)
Sunny Side Up
as Mrs. Cromwell
(1929)
The Trespasser
as Mrs. Ferguson
(1929)
Her Private Life
as Ladu Wildering
(1919)
The Lady Clare
as Lady Julia Medwin
(1919)
(1918)
The Woman's Portion
as Lizzie