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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1882-12-30
Place of birth
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Images
Cast
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
6.50
Terror by Night
1946
6.50
Laddie
1935
0.00
Almost Married
1942
0.00
A Farewell to Arms
1932
6.10
You Can't Take It with You
1938
7.50
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
6.80
The Awful Truth
1937
7.20
Bombshell
1933
6.48
Les Misérables
1935
7.19
Roberta
1935
7.00
She Was a Lady
1934
0.00
Captain Blood
1935
7.20
British Agent
1934
5.56
Tender Comrade
1944
5.96
The Trespasser
1929
6.60
Outside These Walls
1939
7.50
Sunny Side Up
1929
6.83
Nothing But the Truth
1941
7.10
Rendezvous
1935
4.31
Les Miserables
1952
5.20
Back Street
1941
7.17
The Thirteenth Chair
1929
4.90
Houseboat
1958
6.40
The Man Who Came Back
1931
3.40
East Is West
1930
4.00
Always Goodbye
1938
6.80
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
7.00
Lady on a Train
1945
6.64
Chances
1931
7.00
The Sun Never Sets
1939
4.80
A Lost Lady
1934
5.64
The Woman's Portion
1918
0.00
Two Tickets to London
1943
6.00
Working Girls
1931
6.80
Everybody Sing
1938
4.70
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
3.80
Outside of Paradise
1938
0.00
Strictly Unconventional
1930
2.70
Blind Date
1934
7.00
Blame It on Love
1940
2.50
Ivy
1947
6.60
Risky Business
1939
6.00
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934
5.20
Women Who Win
1919
0.00
Laddie
1940
6.00
The Life of the Party
1937
5.20
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
0.00
Happiness Ahead
1934
6.00
The Devil to Pay!
1930
5.74
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
5.30
South of Suez
1940
4.00
The White Angel
1936
7.20
Born to Love
1931
5.00
Fast and Loose
1939
5.60
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
7.10
These Glamour Girls
1939
5.50
We Live Again
1934
6.60
The Perfect Gentleman
1935
4.50
Ninotchka
1939
7.50
Cavalcade
1933
5.51
The Judge Steps Out
1947
7.00
Women of Glamour
1937
5.00
Another Dawn
1937
6.20
Shock
1934
6.00
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
7.20
The Silent Witness
1932
5.50
The Brat
1931
5.21
It Had to Be You
1947
6.50
Florian
1940
1.00
Dangerous Blondes
1943
6.00
Klondike Fury
1942
4.20
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
6.60
Wedding Present
1936
6.50
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
5.00
Cigarette Girl
1947
0.00
Vanity Fair
1932
3.50
I Stole a Million
1939
6.00
Twin Beds
1942
2.80
The Great Impersonation
1942
5.80
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
5.00
Stranded
1935
5.80
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
7.13
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
6.70
So This Is London
1930
7.00
Jane Eyre
1943
6.90
Mr. Lucky
1943
7.05
The Rage of Paris
1938
5.84
The Exile
1947
6.10
Stage Door
1937
7.01
Abraham Lincoln
1930
5.40
Anna Karenina
1935
6.50
I'll Remember April
1945
3.67
Private Affairs
1940
0.00
Her Private Life
1929
1.00
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
6.40
This Above All
1942
6.70
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
6.40
Dizzy Dames
1935
6.00
The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
5.60
Holiday
1930
6.20
Sadie McKee
1934
6.90
The Lady Clare
1919
0.00
The Black Arrow
1948
5.20