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