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