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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 30, 1882
Died
July 22, 1974
Place of Birth
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Also Known As
- Ethel Louise Young
Mary Forbes
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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
6.4
British Society Woman (uncredited)
Houseboat
1958
5.9
Mrs. Merton
Suspicion
1957
7.8
Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
5.2
Nun (uncredited)
Les Miserables
1952
6.4
Aunt Martha
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
5.2
Nun (uncredited)
The Black Arrow
1948
7.0
Margaret (uncredited)
The Judge Steps Out
1947
6.5
Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
It Had to Be You
1947
6.1
Second Court Lady
The Exile
1947
6.6
Lady Crail (uncredited)
Ivy
1947
Credits
Houseboat
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
1958
6.4
Suspicion
as Mrs. Merton
1957
5.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
1955
7.8
Les Miserables
as Nun (uncredited)
1952
5.2
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Aunt Martha
1948
6.4
The Black Arrow
as Nun (uncredited)
1948
5.2
The Judge Steps Out
as Margaret (uncredited)
1947
7.0
It Had to Be You
as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
1947
6.5
The Exile
as Second Court Lady
1947
6.1
Ivy
as Lady Crail (uncredited)
1947
6.6
Cigarette Girl
as Mrs. Halstead
1947
0.0
Terror by Night
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
1946
6.5
Lady on a Train
1945
6.6
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Queen Mother Elena
1945
5.0
I'll Remember April
as Mrs. Barrington
1945
3.7
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lady Agatha
1945
7.1
Tender Comrade
as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Eshton
1943
6.9
Dangerous Blondes
as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Mr. Lucky
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
1943
7.0
Two Tickets to London
as Dame Dunne Hartley
1943
6.0
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mrs. Pettibone
1943
6.7
The Great Impersonation
as Lady Leslie Clayfair
1942
5.8
Almost Married
as Mrs. Marvin
1942
0.0
This Above All
as Vicar's Wife
1942
6.7
Twin Beds
1942
2.8
Klondike Fury
as Mrs. Langton
1942
4.2
Nothing But the Truth
as Mrs. Ralston
1941
7.1
Back Street
as Mrs. Williams
1941
7.2
South of Suez
as Mrs. Putnam
1940
4.0
All This, and Heaven Too
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Private Affairs
as Mrs. Stanley
1940
0.0
Blame It on Love
as Mrs. Wadsworth
1940
2.5
Florian
as Grandmother
1940
1.0
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
1940
6.0
Ninotchka
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
1939
7.5
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Mrs. Gaynes
1939
5.3
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Lady Conyngham
1939
6.9
These Glamour Girls
as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
1939
5.5
I Stole a Million
as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
1939
6.0
The Sun Never Sets
as Mrs. Randolph
1939
4.8
Outside These Walls
as Gertrude Bishop
1939
7.5
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Mrs. Withers
1939
7.1
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Lady Hilda (uncredited)
1939
5.6
Risky Business
as Mrs. Jameson
1939
6.0
Fast and Loose
as Mrs. Torrent
1939
5.6
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
1939
6.8
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Mrs. Hanson
1938
3.8
You Can't Take It with You
as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
1938
7.5
Always Goodbye
as Aunt Martha Marshall
1938
6.8
The Rage of Paris
as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
1938
5.8
Outside of Paradise
as Mrs. Stonewall
1938
0.0
Everybody Sing
as Miss Colvin
1938
4.7
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
1938
6.0
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Vance
1937
7.2
Stage Door
as Cast of Stage Play
1937
7.0
One Hundred Men and a Girl
as Concert Hall Patron
1937
6.4
The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Saunders
1937
5.2
Wee Willie Winkie
as Mrs. MacMonachie
1937
6.6
Another Dawn
as Mrs. Lydia Benton
1937
6.2
Women of Glamour
as Mrs. Stark
1937
5.0
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
1936
6.5
Wedding Present
as Mrs. Dodacker
1936
6.5
The White Angel
as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
1936
7.2
Captain Blood
as Mrs. Steed
1935
7.2
The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Lady Holloway
1935
5.0
The Perfect Gentleman
as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
1935
4.5
Rendezvous
as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
1935
4.3
Anna Karenina
as Princess Sorokina
1935
6.5
Stranded
as Grace Dean (uncredited)
1935
5.8
Dizzy Dames
as Mrs. Stokes
1935
6.0
Les Misérables
as Mlle. Baptiseme
1935
7.2
Laddie
as Mrs. Anna Pryor
1935
0.0
Roberta
as (uncredited)
1935
7.0
We Live Again
as Mrs. Kortchagin
1934
6.6
Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Travis
1934
6.0
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
1934
0.0
A Lost Lady
as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
1934
5.6
British Agent
as Lady Catherine Trehearne
1934
5.6
She Was a Lady
as Lady Diana Vane
1934
0.0
Blind Date
as Mrs. Hartwell
1934
7.0
Shock
as Lady Heatherly
1934
6.0
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Mrs. Kelsey
1934
5.2
Sadie McKee
as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
1934
6.9
You Can't Buy Everything
as Kate Farley
1934
7.0
Bombshell
as Mrs. Middleton
1933
6.5
Cavalcade
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
1933
5.5
A Farewell to Arms
as Miss Van Campen
1932
6.1
Vanity Fair
as Mrs. Sedley
1932
3.5
The Silent Witness
as Lady Howard
1932
5.5
Working Girls
as Mrs. Johnstone
1931
6.8
The Brat
as Mrs. Forester
1931
5.2
Chances
as Mrs. Ingleside
1931
7.0
Born to Love
as The Duchess (uncredited)
1931
5.0
The Man Who Came Back
as Mrs. Gaynes
1931
3.4
The Devil to Pay!
as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
1930
5.7
Abraham Lincoln
as Actress (uncredited)
1930
5.4
East Is West
as Mrs. Benson
1930
4.0
Holiday
as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
1930
6.2
So This Is London
as Lady Worthing
1930
7.0
Strictly Unconventional
as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
1930
2.7
Sunny Side Up
as Mrs. Cromwell
1929
6.8
The Trespasser
as Mrs. Ferguson
1929
6.6
The Thirteenth Chair
as Lady Alice Crosby
1929
4.9
Her Private Life
as Ladu Wildering
1929
1.0
Women Who Win
1919
0.0
The Lady Clare
as Lady Julia Medwin
1919
0.0
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The Woman's Portion
as Lizzie
1918
0.0