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

Captain Blood

19357.2

A Farewell to Arms

19326.2

Ninotchka

19397.5

A Lost Lady

19345.8

The Awful Truth

19377.2

Houseboat

19586.4

Working Girls

19317.1

Anna Karenina

19356.6

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

19396.9

Mr. Lucky

19437.0

Vanity Fair

19324.7

Stage Door

19377.1

British Agent

19345.8

Another Dawn

19376.4

Cavalcade

19335.5

Back Street

19417.3

All This, and Heaven Too

19407.2

Les Misérables

19357.1

Her Private Life

19293.0

Lady on a Train

19456.7

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

19436.8

Les Miserables

19525.5

Nothing but the Truth

19417.3

Abraham Lincoln

19305.5

Ivy

19476.6

One Hundred Men and a Girl

19376.4

Florian

19404.5

Wee Willie Winkie

19376.6

Holiday

19306.2

Wedding Present

19366.3

It Had to Be You

19477.8

Roberta

19357.1

You Gotta Stay Happy

19486.8

This Above All

19426.8

The White Angel

19367.2

Tender Comrade

19445.7

Rendezvous

19354.9

Everybody Sing

19385.0

Twin Beds

19423.8

The Thirteenth Chair

19295.5

She Was a Lady

19348.0

Sadie McKee

19347.0

Three Loves Has Nancy

19384.2

Laddie

19406.6

The Judge Steps Out

19476.8

The Ice Follies of 1939

19395.7

So This Is London

19307.0

Happiness Ahead

19346.6

I Stole a Million

19398.0

Blind Date

19348.0

The Black Arrow

19485.5

Cigarette Girl

19477.0

We Live Again

19346.8

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

19397.0

The Devil to Pay!

19305.8

The Rage of Paris

19385.8

Bombshell

19336.5

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

South of Suez

19404.6

Women Who Win

19199.0

The Life of the Party

19376.2

The Perfect Gentleman

19356.3

The Great Impersonation

19426.4

Fast and Loose

19395.9

Dizzy Dames

19358.0

Theodora Goes Wild

19366.6

Always Goodbye

19387.2

Earl Carroll Vanities

19455.4

Most Precious Thing in Life

19345.8

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

19397.2

These Glamour Girls

19395.9

Almost Married

19427.0

Sunny Side Up

19297.1

The Exile

19476.3

Stranded

19356.0

I'll Remember April

19454.5

Two Heads on a Pillow

19347.0

The Trespasser

19296.9

Two Tickets to London

19437.5

The Widow from Monte Carlo

19355.8

Born to Love

19315.3

The Man Who Came Back

19314.3

The Lady Clare

19199.0

Strictly Unconventional

19304.3

The Sun Never Sets

19395.5

Outside These Walls

19398.8

Private Affairs

19407.0

Chances

19317.4

Dangerous Blondes

19436.3

You Can't Buy Everything

19348.0

Laddie

193510.0

Outside of Paradise

19387.0

Women of Glamour

19375.7

The Woman's Portion

1918

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

19387.0

Risky Business

19396.5

The Brat

19315.4

East Is West

19305.3

The Silent Witness

19327.0

Blame It on Love

19404.8

Klondike Fury

19425.1

Shock

19347.3