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.
Movie | Legato | Mrs. Ralston | 1977-02-25 |
Movie | Young Lady Chatterley | Lady Frances Chatterley | 1977-05-15 |
Movie | Houseboat | British Society Woman (uncredited) | 1958-11-19 |
Series | Suspicion | Unknown | 1957-09-30 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Les Miserables | Nun (uncredited) | 1952-08-14 |
Movie | You Gotta Stay Happy | Aunt Martha | 1948-10-28 |
Movie | Cigarette Girl | Mrs. Halstead | 1947-02-13 |
Movie | Ivy | Lady Crail (uncredited) | 1947-06-26 |
Movie | The Exile | Second Court Lady | 1947-10-17 |
Movie | The Judge Steps Out | Margaret (uncredited) | 1947-12-15 |
Movie | Terror by Night | Lady Margaret Carstairs | 1946-02-01 |
Movie | Lady on a Train | 1945-08-03 | |
Movie | I'll Remember April | Mrs. Barrington | 1945-04-01 |
Movie | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lady Agatha | 1945-03-03 |
Movie | Earl Carroll Vanities | Queen Mother Elena | 1945-04-05 |
Movie | Tender Comrade | Jo's Mother (uncredited) | 1944-05-30 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Mrs. Pettibone | 1943-03-24 |
Movie | Two Tickets to London | Dame Dunne Hartley | 1943-06-14 |
Movie | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Eshton | 1943-12-24 |
Movie | Mr. Lucky | War Relief Worker (uncredited) | 1943-07-01 |
Movie | Klondike Fury | Mrs. Langton | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | Twin Beds | 1942-04-30 | |
Movie | This Above All | Vicar's Wife | 1942-05-12 |
Movie | The Great Impersonation | Lady Leslie Clayfair | 1942-12-18 |
Movie | Almost Married | Mrs. Marvin | 1942-05-22 |
Movie | Back Street | Mrs. Williams | 1941-02-07 |
Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Mrs. Ralston | 1941-10-10 |
Movie | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor | 1940-01-18 |
Movie | Private Affairs | Mrs. Stanley | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | Florian | Grandmother | 1940-06-05 |
Movie | All This, and Heaven Too | Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | South of Suez | Mrs. Putnam | 1940-11-16 |
Movie | The Ice Follies of 1939 | Lady Hilda (Uncredited) | 1939-03-10 |
Movie | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Mrs. Withers | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | Risky Business | Mrs. Jameson | 1939-03-03 |
Movie | Fast and Loose | Mrs. Torrent | 1939-02-17 |
Movie | Outside These Walls | Gertrude Bishop | 1939-05-04 |
Movie | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mrs. Bel-Goodie | 1939-02-17 |
Movie | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Lady Conyngham | 1939-09-01 |
Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Mrs. Gaynes | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | The Sun Never Sets | Mrs. Randolph | 1939-05-31 |
Movie | These Glamour Girls | Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited) | 1939-08-18 |
Movie | Ninotchka | Lady Lavenham (uncredited) | 1939-11-23 |
Movie | I Stole a Million | Flower Shop Customer (uncredited) | 1939-08-01 |
Movie | Outside of Paradise | Mrs. Stonewall | 1938-02-08 |
Movie | The Rage of Paris | Woman in Opera Box (uncredited) | 1938-06-09 |
Movie | Everybody Sing | Miss Colvin | 1938-01-01 |
Movie | What Do You Think? (Number Three) | Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited) | 1938-01-15 |
Movie | Always Goodbye | Aunt Martha Marshall | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Hanson | 1938-09-02 |
Movie | You Can't Take It with You | Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby | 1938-09-01 |
Movie | Another Dawn | Mrs. Lydia Benton | 1937-06-26 |
Movie | Women of Glamour | Mrs. Stark | 1937-03-09 |
Movie | Wee Willie Winkie | Mrs. MacMonachie | 1937-07-30 |
Movie | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Concert Hall Patron | 1937-09-05 |
Movie | Stage Door | Cast of Stage Play | 1937-10-07 |
Movie | The Life of the Party | Mrs. Saunders | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | The Awful Truth | Mrs. Vance | 1937-10-20 |
Movie | Wedding Present | Mrs. Dodacker | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | The White Angel | Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited) | 1936-06-25 |
Movie | Theodora Goes Wild | Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited) | 1936-11-12 |
Movie | Les Misérables | Mlle. Baptiseme | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor | 1935-03-18 |
Movie | Roberta | 1935-03-07 | |
Movie | Anna Karenina | 1935-08-30 | |
Movie | Stranded | Grace Dean (uncredited) | 1935-06-29 |
Movie | Captain Blood | Mrs. Steed | 1935-12-26 |
Movie | The Perfect Gentleman | Lady Clyffe-Pembrook | 1935-11-22 |
Movie | The Widow from Monte Carlo | Lady Holloway | 1935-12-19 |
Movie | Rendezvous | Lady Cavendish (uncredited) | 1935-10-25 |
Movie | Shock | Lady Heatherly | 1934-07-19 |
Movie | Most Precious Thing in Life | Mrs. Kelsey | 1934-06-15 |
Movie | You Can't Buy Everything | Kate Farley | 1934-01-26 |
Movie | Blind Date | Mrs. Hartwell | 1934-07-20 |
Movie | A Lost Lady | Mrs. Hardy (uncredited) | 1934-09-29 |
Movie | We Live Again | Mrs. Kortchagin | 1934-11-01 |
Movie | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Travis | 1934-10-27 |
Movie | Two Heads on a Pillow | Mrs. Caroline Devonshire | 1934-10-02 |
Movie | British Agent | Lady Catherine Trehearne | 1934-09-15 |
Movie | Cavalcade | Duchess of Churt (uncredited) | 1933-02-08 |
Movie | Bombshell | Mrs. Middleton | 1933-10-13 |
Movie | The Silent Witness | Lady Howard | 1932-02-07 |
Movie | Vanity Fair | Mrs. Sedley | 1932-03-15 |
Movie | A Farewell to Arms | Miss Van Campen | 1932-12-08 |
Movie | The Man Who Came Back | Mrs. Gaynes | 1931-01-11 |
Movie | Chances | Mrs. Ingleside | 1931-07-18 |
Movie | Born to Love | The Duchess (uncredited) | 1931-04-17 |
Movie | The Brat | Mrs. Forester | 1931-08-23 |
Movie | Working Girls | Mrs. Johnstone | 1931-12-12 |
Movie | Holiday | Mrs. Pritchard Ames | 1930-07-03 |
Movie | Strictly Unconventional | Mrs. Anna Shenstone | 1930-05-03 |
Movie | So This Is London | Lady Worthing | 1930-05-23 |
Movie | East Is West | Mrs. Benson | 1930-10-23 |
Movie | The Devil to Pay! | Mrs. Hope (uncredited) | 1930-12-18 |
Movie | Abraham Lincoln | Actress (uncredited) | 1930-11-08 |
Movie | Her Private Life | Ladu Wildering | 1929-08-25 |
Movie | The Thirteenth Chair | Lady Alice Crosby | 1929-10-19 |
Movie | Sunny Side Up | Mrs. Cromwell | 1929-12-25 |
Movie | The Trespasser | Mrs. Ferguson | 1929-11-11 |
Movie | Women Who Win | 1919-01-02 |