Mary Forbes
Biography
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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 (105 movies)
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Terror by Night
1946
Laddie
1935
Almost Married
1942
A Farewell to Arms
1932
You Can't Take It with You
1938
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
The Awful Truth
1937
Bombshell
1933
Les Misérables
1935
Roberta
1935
She Was a Lady
1934
Captain Blood
1935
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
British Agent
1934
Tender Comrade
1944
The Trespasser
1929
Outside These Walls
1939
Sunny Side Up
1929
Nothing But the Truth
1941
Rendezvous
1935
Les Miserables
1952
Back Street
1941
The Thirteenth Chair
1929
Houseboat
1958
The Man Who Came Back
1931
East Is West
1930
Always Goodbye
1938
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
Lady on a Train
1945
Chances
1931
The Sun Never Sets
1939
A Lost Lady
1934
Two Tickets to London
1943
Working Girls
1931
Everybody Sing
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
Outside of Paradise
1938
Strictly Unconventional
1930
Blind Date
1934
Blame It on Love
1940
Ivy
1947
Risky Business
1939
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934
Women Who Win
1919
Laddie
1940
The Life of the Party
1937
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
Happiness Ahead
1934
The Devil to Pay!
1930
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
South of Suez
1940
The White Angel
1936
Born to Love
1931
Fast and Loose
1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
These Glamour Girls
1939
We Live Again
1934
The Perfect Gentleman
1935
Ninotchka
1939
Cavalcade
1933
The Judge Steps Out
1947
Women of Glamour
1937
Another Dawn
1937
Shock
1934
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
The Silent Witness
1932
The Brat
1931
It Had to Be You
1947
Florian
1940
Dangerous Blondes
1943
Klondike Fury
1942
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
Wedding Present
1936
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
Cigarette Girl
1947
Vanity Fair
1932
I Stole a Million
1939
Twin Beds
1942
The Great Impersonation
1942
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
Stranded
1935
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
1938
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
So This Is London
1930
Jane Eyre
1943
Mr. Lucky
1943
The Rage of Paris
1938
The Exile
1947
Stage Door
1937
Abraham Lincoln
1930
Anna Karenina
1935
I'll Remember April
1945
Private Affairs
1940
Her Private Life
1929
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
This Above All
1942
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
Dizzy Dames
1935
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