Mary Forbes

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

143

Movies

106

Born: December 30, 1882 – July 22, 1974
From: Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK

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.

Works

106 films

Jane Eyre

19436.9

The Picture of Dorian Gray

19457.1

Terror by Night

19466.6

You Can't Take It with You

19387.5

A Farewell to Arms

19326.2

Ninotchka

19397.5

Captain Blood

19357.2

A Lost Lady

19345.8

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

19396.9

Houseboat

19586.4

Mr. Lucky

19437.0

The Awful Truth

19377.2

Working Girls

19317.1

Anna Karenina

19356.6

Another Dawn

19376.4

Stage Door

19377.1

Les Misérables

19357.1

Cavalcade

19335.5

Vanity Fair

19324.7

Back Street

19417.3

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

19436.8

British Agent

19345.8

Her Private Life

19293.0

All This, and Heaven Too

19407.2

Lady on a Train

19456.7

One Hundred Men and a Girl

19376.4

Les Miserables

19525.5

Cigarette Girl

19477.0

Sadie McKee

19347.0

Abraham Lincoln

19305.5

Tender Comrade

19445.7

Nothing but the Truth

19417.3

Wee Willie Winkie

19376.6

The Thirteenth Chair

19295.5

The Judge Steps Out

19476.8

Ivy

19476.6

It Had to Be You

19477.8

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

19397.0

The Ice Follies of 1939

19395.7

Roberta

19357.1

This Above All

19426.8

Twin Beds

19423.8

Holiday

19306.2

So This Is London

19307.0

The Perfect Gentleman

19356.3

You Gotta Stay Happy

19486.8

Everybody Sing

19385.0

The Rage of Paris

19385.8

She Was a Lady

19348.0

The Black Arrow

19485.5

Bombshell

19336.5

Wedding Present

19366.3

The Sun Never Sets

19395.5

Rendezvous

19354.9

The Trespasser

19296.9

Three Loves Has Nancy

19384.2

Blind Date

19348.0

Florian

19404.5

Happiness Ahead

19346.6

The Life of the Party

19376.2

We Live Again

19346.8

These Glamour Girls

19395.9

I Stole a Million

19398.0

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

The White Angel

19367.2

You Can't Buy Everything

19348.0

Most Precious Thing in Life

19345.8

The Lady Clare

19199.0

Sunny Side Up

19297.1

Women Who Win

19199.0

Theodora Goes Wild

19366.6

I'll Remember April

19454.5

South of Suez

19404.6

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

19397.2

Always Goodbye

19387.2

Two Tickets to London

19437.5

Fast and Loose

19395.9

The Exile

19476.3

Almost Married

19427.0

Dangerous Blondes

19436.3

The Man Who Came Back

19314.3

Laddie

193510.0

Stranded

19356.0

Born to Love

19315.3

The Brat

19315.4

Laddie

19406.6

Chances

19317.4

Two Heads on a Pillow

19347.0

Private Affairs

19407.0

The Devil to Pay!

19305.8

Women of Glamour

19375.7

Outside These Walls

19398.8

Strictly Unconventional

19304.3

The Woman's Portion

1918

Klondike Fury

19425.1

Earl Carroll Vanities

19455.4

The Silent Witness

19327.0

The Great Impersonation

19426.4

Risky Business

19396.5

Blame It on Love

19404.8

East Is West

19305.3

The Widow from Monte Carlo

19355.8

Dizzy Dames

19358.0

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

19387.0

Outside of Paradise

19387.0

Shock

19347.3