Acting
105
Woman
30 Dec 1882
22 Jul 1974 (91)
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
---|---|---|
1958 | Houseboat | British Society Woman (uncredited) |
1957 | Suspicion | Mrs. Merton |
1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Herbert Winthrop |
1952 | Les Miserables | Nun (uncredited) |
1948 | You Gotta Stay Happy | Aunt Martha |
1947 | Ivy | Lady Crail (uncredited) |
1947 | The Exile | Second Court Lady |
1947 | The Judge Steps Out | Margaret (uncredited) |
1947 | It Had to Be You | Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited) |
1947 | Cigarette Girl | Mrs. Halstead |
1946 | Terror by Night | Lady Margaret Carstairs |
1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lady Agatha |
1945 | Lady on a Train | |
1945 | Earl Carroll Vanities | Queen Mother Elena |
1945 | I'll Remember April | Mrs. Barrington |
1944 | Tender Comrade | Jo's Mother (uncredited) |
1943 | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Eshton |
1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Mrs. Pettibone |
1943 | Mr. Lucky | War Relief Worker (uncredited) |
1943 | Dangerous Blondes | Isabel Fleming (uncredited) |
1943 | Two Tickets to London | Dame Dunne Hartley |
1942 | This Above All | Vicar's Wife |
1942 | Klondike Fury | Mrs. Langton |
1942 | Twin Beds | |
1942 | The Great Impersonation | Lady Leslie Clayfair |
1942 | Almost Married | Mrs. Marvin |
1941 | Nothing But the Truth | Mrs. Ralston |
1941 | Back Street | Mrs. Williams |
1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) |
1940 | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor |
1940 | South of Suez | Mrs. Putnam |
1940 | Blame It on Love | Mrs. Wadsworth |
1940 | Florian | Grandmother |
1940 | Private Affairs | Mrs. Stanley |
1939 | Ninotchka | Lady Lavenham (uncredited) |
1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Lady Conyngham |
1939 | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mrs. Bel-Goodie |
1939 | The Ice Follies of 1939 | Lady Hilda (Uncredited) |
1939 | These Glamour Girls | Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited) |
1939 | Fast and Loose | Mrs. Torrent |
1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Mrs. Withers |
1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | Mrs. Gaynes |
1939 | The Sun Never Sets | Mrs. Randolph |
1939 | Outside These Walls | Gertrude Bishop |
1939 | Risky Business | Mrs. Jameson |
1939 | I Stole a Million | Flower Shop Customer (uncredited) |
1938 | You Can't Take It with You | Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby |
1938 | The Rage of Paris | Woman in Opera Box (uncredited) |
1938 | Everybody Sing | Miss Colvin |
1938 | Always Goodbye | Aunt Martha Marshall |
1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Hanson |
1938 | What Do You Think? (Number Three) | Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited) |
1938 | Outside of Paradise | Mrs. Stonewall |
1937 | The Awful Truth | Mrs. Vance |
1937 | Stage Door | Cast of Stage Play |
1937 | Wee Willie Winkie | Mrs. MacMonachie |
1937 | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Concert Hall Patron |
1937 | Another Dawn | Mrs. Lydia Benton |
1937 | The Life of the Party | Mrs. Saunders |
1937 | Women of Glamour | Mrs. Stark |
1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited) |
1936 | Wedding Present | Mrs. Dodacker |
1936 | The White Angel | Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited) |
1935 | Captain Blood | Mrs. Steed |
1935 | Anna Karenina | |
1935 | Les Misérables | Mlle. Baptiseme |
1935 | Roberta | |
1935 | Rendezvous | Lady Cavendish (uncredited) |
1935 | Stranded | Grace Dean (uncredited) |
1935 | The Widow from Monte Carlo | Lady Holloway |
1935 | The Perfect Gentleman | Lady Clyffe-Pembrook |
1935 | Dizzy Dames | Mrs. Stokes |
1935 | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor |
1934 | British Agent | Lady Catherine Trehearne |
1934 | A Lost Lady | Mrs. Hardy (uncredited) |
1934 | Most Precious Thing in Life | Mrs. Kelsey |
1934 | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Travis |
1934 | We Live Again | Mrs. Kortchagin |
1934 | You Can't Buy Everything | Kate Farley |
1934 | Blind Date | Mrs. Hartwell |
1934 | Shock | Lady Heatherly |
1934 | She Was a Lady | Lady Diana Vane |
1934 | Two Heads on a Pillow | Mrs. Caroline Devonshire |
1933 | Cavalcade | Duchess of Churt (uncredited) |
1933 | Bombshell | Mrs. Middleton |
1932 | A Farewell to Arms | Miss Van Campen |
1932 | The Silent Witness | Lady Howard |
1932 | Vanity Fair | Mrs. Sedley |
1931 | The Brat | Mrs. Forester |
1931 | Working Girls | Mrs. Johnstone |
1931 | Born to Love | The Duchess (uncredited) |
1931 | The Man Who Came Back | Mrs. Gaynes |
1931 | Chances | Mrs. Ingleside |
1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Actress (uncredited) |
1930 | The Devil to Pay! | Mrs. Hope (uncredited) |
1930 | Holiday | Mrs. Pritchard Ames |
1930 | East Is West | Mrs. Benson |
1930 | Strictly Unconventional | Mrs. Anna Shenstone |
1930 | So This Is London | Lady Worthing |
1929 | The Thirteenth Chair | Lady Alice Crosby |
1929 | Sunny Side Up | Mrs. Cromwell |
1929 | The Trespasser | Mrs. Ferguson |
1929 | Her Private Life | Ladu Wildering |
1919 | Women Who Win | |
1918 | The Woman's Portion | Lizzie |