
Mary Forbes
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.
108 acting credits
Acting · 108

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Suspicion
1957

You Can't Take It with You
1938

Jane Eyre
1943

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945

Houseboat
1958

Ninotchka
1939

Stage Door
1937

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939

Les Misérables
1935

A Farewell to Arms
1932

Captain Blood
1935

The Awful Truth
1937

Mr. Lucky
1943

Cavalcade
1933

Anna Karenina
1935

Terror by Night
1946

Abraham Lincoln
1930

All This, and Heaven Too
1940

The Black Arrow
1948

It Had to Be You
1947

Roberta
1935

This Above All
1942

Sadie McKee
1934

Tender Comrade
1944

Dangerous Blondes
1943

Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943

Lady on a Train
1945

Bombshell
1933

Three Loves Has Nancy
1938

Vanity Fair
1932

Rendezvous
1935

Stranded
1935

Hollywood Cavalcade
1939

The Sun Never Sets
1939

The Trespasser
1929

Ivy
1947

Earl Carroll Vanities
1945

Theodora Goes Wild
1936

So This Is London
1930

The White Angel
1936

Blind Date
1934

Two Tickets to London
1943

Working Girls
1931

Back Street
1941

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939

The Ice Follies of 1939
1939

Everybody Sing
1938

Florian
1940

Holiday
1930

Wee Willie Winkie
1937

The Devil to Pay!
1930

You Gotta Stay Happy
1948

Wedding Present
1936

The Silent Witness
1932

Nothing but the Truth
1941

The Thirteenth Chair
1929

British Agent
1934

Les Miserables
1952

Sunny Side Up
1929

Another Dawn
1937

A Lost Lady
1934

Women of Glamour
1937

The Exile
1947

Laddie
1940

These Glamour Girls
1939

The Rage of Paris
1938

Private Affairs
1940

We Live Again
1934

The Perfect Gentleman
1935

One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937

Chances
1931

She Was a Lady
1934

Fast and Loose
1939

The Judge Steps Out
1947

Shock
1934

The Life of the Party
1937

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939

Always Goodbye
1938

Risky Business
1939

The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935

Twin Beds
1942

Born to Love
1931

Strictly Unconventional
1930

I Stole a Million
1939

Two Heads on a Pillow
1934

Outside These Walls
1939

Most Precious Thing in Life
1934

Happiness Ahead
1934

The Brat
1931

The Man Who Came Back
1931

East Is West
1930

Laddie
1935

South of Suez
1940

You Can't Buy Everything
1934

The Great Impersonation
1942

I'll Remember April
1945

Almost Married
1942

Outside of Paradise
1938

Klondike Fury
1942

What Do You Think? (Number Three)
1938

Cigarette Girl
1947

Dizzy Dames
1935

Blame It on Love
1940

Her Private Life
1929

Women Who Win
1919

The Lady Clare
1919
The Woman's Portion
1918