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Mary Forbes
Actor
Died July 22, 1974 (91 years)
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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.
Filmography
| 1958 | Houseboat · as British Society Woman |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Mrs. Merton |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop |
| 1952 | Les Miserables · as Nun |
| 1948 | You Gotta Stay Happy · as Aunt Martha |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · as Mrs. Pierce |
| 1947 | Down to Earth · as Mrs. Fenimore Hume |
| 1947 | It Had to Be You · as Mrs. Kimberly |
| 1947 | The Exile · as Second Court Lady |
| 1947 | The Other Love · as Madame Gruen - Sanitarium Patient |
| 1946 | Terror by Night · as Lady Margaret Carstairs |
| 1946 | A Stolen Life · as Art Patron |
| 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn · as Garden Party Guest |
| 1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray · as Lady Agatha |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington · as Mrs. Pettibone |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky · as War Relief Worker (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Tender Comrade · as Jo's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Jane Eyre · as Mrs. Eshton |
| 1942 | This Above All · as Vicar's Wife |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing · as Mrs. Louise Sandys |
| 1942 | Klondike Fury · as Mrs. Langton |
| 1941 | When Ladies Meet · as Freddie's Mother |
| 1941 | Nothing But the Truth · as Mrs. Ralston |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too · as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Florian · as Grandmother |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · as Lady Conyngham |
| 1939 | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man · as Mrs. Bel-Goodie |
| 1939 | The Ice Follies of 1939 · as Lady Hilda (Uncredited) |
| 1939 | Ninotchka · as Lady Lavenham (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Just Around the Corner · as Miss Vincent |
| 1938 | The Rage of Paris · as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy · as Mrs. Hanson |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It with You · as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby |
| 1937 | Wee Willie Winkie · as Mrs. MacMonachie |
| 1937 | Stage Door · as Cast of Stage Play |
| 1937 | Another Dawn · as Mrs. Lydia Benton |
| 1937 | The Awful Truth · as Mrs. Vance |
| 1936 | Wedding Present · as Mrs. Dodacker |
| 1935 | Captain Blood · as Mrs. Steed |
| 1935 | Roberta · as Unknown |
| 1935 | Les Misérables · as Mlle. Baptiseme |
| 1935 | Rendezvous · as Lady Cavendish |
| 1935 | Anna Karenina · as Unknown |
| 1935 | McFadden's Flats · as actor |
| 1934 | Sadie McKee · as Mrs. Alderson |
| 1934 | Born to Be Bad · as Admirer at Nightclub |
| 1934 | The Painted Veil · as Mrs. Braithwaite |
| 1934 | British Agent · as Lady Catherine Trehearne |
| 1934 | We Live Again · as Mrs. Kortchagin |
| 1934 | Blind Date · as Mrs. Hartwell |
| 1934 | Shock · as Lady Heatherly |
| 1933 | Cavalcade · as Duchess of Churt |
| 1933 | Bombshell · as Mrs. Middleton |
| 1932 | A Farewell to Arms · as Miss Van Campen |
| 1932 | Vanity Fair · as Mrs. Sedley |
| 1930 | Holiday · as Mrs. Pritchard Ames |
| 1930 | The Devil to Pay! · as Mrs. Hope (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln · as Actress (uncredited) |
| 1920 | Nance · as Felicia Damarche |