Mary Forbes
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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.
Acting
Movie
You Can't Take It with You
as Mrs. Anthony Kirby
1938
Movie
Ninotchka
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Vance
1937
Movie
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lady Agatha
1945
Movie
Captain Blood
as Mrs. Steed
1935
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
1955
Movie
Houseboat
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
1958
Movie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Lady Conyngham
1939
Movie
A Farewell to Arms
as Miss Van Campen
1932
Movie
Terror by Night
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
1946
Movie
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Eshton
1943
Movie
Stage Door
as Cast of Stage Play
1937
Movie
Cavalcade
as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
1933
Movie
Anna Karenina
as Princess Sorokina
1935
Movie
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mrs. Pettibone
1943
Movie
Bombshell
as Mrs. Middleton
1933
Movie
All This, and Heaven Too
as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Les Misérables
as Mlle. Baptiseme
1935
Movie
Lady on a Train
1945
Movie
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
1936
Movie
Roberta
as (uncredited)
1935
Movie
Mr. Lucky
as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Abraham Lincoln
as Actress (uncredited)
1930
Movie
Wee Willie Winkie
as Mrs. MacMonachie
1937