
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.
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Credits

Jane Eyre (1943)
as Mrs. Eshton

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
as Lady Agatha

Ninotchka (1939)
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)

Captain Blood (1935)
as Mrs. Steed

The Awful Truth (1937)
as Mrs. Vance

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Actress (uncredited)

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

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

Cavalcade (1933)
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)

Stage Door (1937)
as Cast of Stage Play

Les Misérables (1935)
as Mlle. Baptiseme

Anna Karenina (1935)
as Princess Sorokina

Houseboat (1958)
as British Society Woman (uncredited)

A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Miss Van Campen

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Lady Conyngham

British Agent (1934)
as Lady Catherine Trehearne

Terror by Night (1946)
as Lady Margaret Carstairs

This Above All (1942)
as Vicar's Wife

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

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

Twin Beds (1942)
Actor

Les Miserables (1952)
as Nun (uncredited)

Back Street (1941)
as Mrs. Williams

Bombshell (1933)
as Mrs. Middleton

Ivy (1947)
as Lady Crail (uncredited)

Working Girls (1931)
as Mrs. Johnstone

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

Vanity Fair (1932)
as Mrs. Sedley

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

Wedding Present (1936)
as Mrs. Dodacker

Roberta (1935)
as (uncredited)

Lady on a Train (1945)
Actor

Everybody Sing (1938)
as Miss Colvin

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

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

Blind Date (1934)
as Mrs. Hartwell

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

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

Rendezvous (1935)
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)

The Black Arrow (1948)
as Nun (uncredited)

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

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
as Mrs. Pettibone

The Exile (1947)
as Second Court Lady

Stranded (1935)
as Grace Dean (uncredited)

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

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

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
as Mrs. Gaynes

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
as Mrs. MacMonachie

Another Dawn (1937)
as Mrs. Lydia Benton

Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
as Mrs. Hanson

Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Dame Dunne Hartley

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

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie

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

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

Florian (1940)
as Grandmother

The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Mrs. Randolph

Nothing but the Truth (1941)
as Mrs. Ralston

We Live Again (1934)
as Mrs. Kortchagin

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

The Brat (1931)
as Mrs. Forester

The Trespasser (1929)
as Mrs. Ferguson

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

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

Shock (1934)
as Lady Heatherly

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook

Dangerous Blondes (1943)
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)

Risky Business (1939)
as Mrs. Jameson

Happiness Ahead (1934)
as Mrs. Travis

Laddie (1940)
as Mrs. Anna Pryor

Almost Married (1942)
as Mrs. Marvin

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
as Aunt Martha

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

Always Goodbye (1938)
as Aunt Martha Marshall

Fast and Loose (1939)
as Mrs. Torrent

The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935)
as Lady Holloway

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
as Queen Mother Elena

The Great Impersonation (1942)
as Lady Leslie Clayfair

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

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

The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
as Lady Alice Crosby

She Was a Lady (1934)
as Lady Diana Vane

Laddie (1935)
as Mrs. Anna Pryor

Chances (1931)
as Mrs. Ingleside

Private Affairs (1940)
as Mrs. Stanley

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

So This Is London (1930)
as Lady Worthing

The Silent Witness (1932)
as Lady Howard

Her Private Life (1929)
as Ladu Wildering

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

Women of Glamour (1937)
as Mrs. Stark

Sunny Side Up (1929)
as Mrs. Cromwell

East Is West (1930)
as Mrs. Benson

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

Cigarette Girl (1947)
as Mrs. Halstead

South of Suez (1940)
as Mrs. Putnam

Strictly Unconventional (1930)
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone

Outside of Paradise (1938)
as Mrs. Stonewall

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

Blame It on Love (1940)
as Mrs. Wadsworth

The Lady Clare (1919)
as Lady Julia Medwin

Klondike Fury (1942)
as Mrs. Langton

Dizzy Dames (1935)
as Mrs. Stokes

Outside These Walls (1939)
as Gertrude Bishop
The Woman's Portion (1918)
as Lizzie

Women Who Win (1919)
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