
Mary Forbes
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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
Credits

Jane Eyre (1943)
as Mrs. Eshton

Another Dawn (1937)
as Mrs. Lydia Benton

Ninotchka (1939)
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)

British Agent (1934)
as Lady Catherine Trehearne

Terror by Night (1946)
as Lady Margaret Carstairs

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
as Lady Agatha

Working Girls (1931)
as Mrs. Johnstone

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Mrs. Anthony Kirby

Captain Blood (1935)
as Mrs. Steed

Back Street (1941)
as Mrs. Williams

Anna Karenina (1935)
as Princess Sorokina

The Awful Truth (1937)
as Mrs. Vance

Houseboat (1958)
as British Society Woman (uncredited)

Vanity Fair (1932)
as Mrs. Sedley

Mr. Lucky (1943)
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)

A Lost Lady (1934)
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)

Tender Comrade (1944)
as Jo's Mother (uncredited)

Twin Beds (1942)
Actor

The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
as Lady Alice Crosby

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Lady Conyngham

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)

Les Miserables (1952)
as Nun (uncredited)

Stage Door (1937)
as Cast of Stage Play

Cavalcade (1933)
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Actress (uncredited)

Nothing but the Truth (1941)
as Mrs. Ralston

So This Is London (1930)
as Lady Worthing

This Above All (1942)
as Vicar's Wife

Her Private Life (1929)
as Ladu Wildering

Les Misérables (1935)
as Mlle. Baptiseme

A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Miss Van Campen

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
as Mrs. Withers

Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
as Mrs. Hanson

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
as Mrs. Pettibone

One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
as Concert Hall Patron

Lady on a Train (1945)
Actor

She Was a Lady (1934)
as Lady Diana Vane

Strictly Unconventional (1930)
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
as Aunt Martha

It Had to Be You (1947)
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook

Dangerous Blondes (1943)
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)

Cigarette Girl (1947)
as Mrs. Halstead

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)

The Exile (1947)
as Second Court Lady

Wedding Present (1936)
as Mrs. Dodacker

Risky Business (1939)
as Mrs. Jameson

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
as Mrs. MacMonachie

Roberta (1935)
as (uncredited)

Happiness Ahead (1934)
as Mrs. Travis

The Devil to Pay! (1930)
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)

The White Angel (1936)
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)

Born to Love (1931)
as The Duchess (uncredited)

These Glamour Girls (1939)
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)

The Great Impersonation (1942)
as Lady Leslie Clayfair

I Stole a Million (1939)
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)

Ivy (1947)
as Lady Crail (uncredited)

Rendezvous (1935)
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)

Sunny Side Up (1929)
as Mrs. Cromwell

Outside These Walls (1939)
as Gertrude Bishop

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
as Mrs. Gaynes

Holiday (1930)
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)

The Rage of Paris (1938)
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)

Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire

The Black Arrow (1948)
as Nun (uncredited)

The Trespasser (1929)
as Mrs. Ferguson

Sadie McKee (1934)
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)

I'll Remember April (1945)
as Mrs. Barrington

Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Dame Dunne Hartley

The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
as Lady Hilda (uncredited)

East Is West (1930)
as Mrs. Benson

Bombshell (1933)
as Mrs. Middleton

Fast and Loose (1939)
as Mrs. Torrent

Chances (1931)
as Mrs. Ingleside

The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Margaret (uncredited)

We Live Again (1934)
as Mrs. Kortchagin

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
as Queen Mother Elena

Shock (1934)
as Lady Heatherly

The Man Who Came Back (1931)
as Mrs. Gaynes

Private Affairs (1940)
as Mrs. Stanley

The Lady Clare (1919)
as Lady Julia Medwin

The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Mrs. Randolph

Florian (1940)
as Grandmother

Outside of Paradise (1938)
as Mrs. Stonewall

Stranded (1935)
as Grace Dean (uncredited)

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
The Woman's Portion (1918)
as Lizzie

The Life of the Party (1937)
as Mrs. Saunders

The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935)
as Lady Holloway

Blind Date (1934)
as Mrs. Hartwell

Always Goodbye (1938)
as Aunt Martha Marshall

South of Suez (1940)
as Mrs. Putnam

Women of Glamour (1937)
as Mrs. Stark

Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
as Mrs. Kelsey

Women Who Win (1919)
Actor

The Brat (1931)
as Mrs. Forester

The Silent Witness (1932)
as Lady Howard

Klondike Fury (1942)
as Mrs. Langton

Almost Married (1942)
as Mrs. Marvin

Everybody Sing (1938)
as Miss Colvin

What Do You Think? (Number Three) (1938)
as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)

Laddie (1935)
as Mrs. Anna Pryor

Dizzy Dames (1935)
as Mrs. Stokes

You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
as Kate Farley

Laddie (1940)
as Mrs. Anna Pryor

Blame It on Love (1940)
as Mrs. Wadsworth





