Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes (born Ethel Louise Young; 1 January 1883 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.

Filmography

Women Who Win (1919) – Ella Graham The Lady Clare (1919) – Lady Julia Medwin Nance (1920) – Felicia Damarche Inheritance (1920) – Lady Isabel Tillie the Toiler (1927) – Mrs. Fish – Pennington's Mother (uncredited) Her Private Life (1929) – Ladu Wildering Sunny Side Up (1929) – Mrs. Cromwell The Thirteenth Chair (1929) – Lady Crosby The Trespasser (1929) – Mrs. Ferguson Strictly Unconventional (1930) – Mrs. Anna Shenstone So This Is London (1930) – Lady Worthing Holiday (1930) – Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited) Abraham Lincoln (1930) – Actress (uncredited) East Is West (1930) – Mrs. Benson The Devil to Pay! (1930) – Mrs. Hope (uncredited) The Man Who Came Back (1931) – Mrs. Gaynes Born to Love (1931) – The Duchess (uncredited) Chances (1931) – Mrs. Ingleside The Brat (1931) – Mrs. Mary Forrester Working Girls (1931) – Mrs. Johnstone Stepping Sisters (1932) – Mrs. Tremaine The Silent Witness (1932) – Lady Howard Vanity Fair (1932) – Mrs. Sedley A Farewell to Arms (1932) – Miss Van Campen Shock (1934) – Lady Heatherly Cavalcade (1933) The Masquerader (1933) – Duchess of Churt (uncredited) Bombshell (1933) – Mrs. Middleton You Can't Buy Everything (1934) – Kate Farley Carolina (1934) – Aunt Catherine (uncredited) Sadie McKee (1934) – Mrs. Alderson (uncredited) Born to Be Bad (1934) – Admirer at Nightclub (uncredited) The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934) – Mrs. Kelsey Now I'll Tell (1934) – Mrs. Drake (uncredited) Shock (1934) – Lady Heatherly (uncredited) Blind Date (1934) – Mrs. Hartwell She Was a Lady (1934) – Lady Diana Vane Oh Sailor Behave (1934 short) British Agent (1934) – Lady Catherine Trehearne A Lost Lady (1934) – Mrs. Hardy (uncredited) Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) – Mrs. Caroline Devonshire Happiness Ahead (1934) – Mrs. Travis Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) – Passenger Campbell Sits Next To (uncredited) We Live Again (1934) – Mrs. Kortchagin (uncredited) The Painted Veil (1934) – Mrs. Braithwaite (uncredited) Roberta (1935) – Mrs. Teale (uncredited) McFadden's Flats (1935) (uncredited) Laddie (1935) – Mrs. Anna Pryor Les Misérables (1935) – Mlle. Baptiseme Dizzy Dames (1935) – Mrs. Stokes Stranded (1935) – Grace Dean (uncredited) Anna Karenina (1935) – Princess Sorokina Rendezvous (1935) – Lady Cavendish (uncredited) The Perfect Gentleman (1935) – Lady Clyffe-Pembrook The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935) – Lady Holloway Captain Blood (1935) – Mrs. Steed The White Angel (1936) – First Lady Disapproving of Florence (uncredited) Wedding Present (1936) – Mrs. Dodacker Theodora Goes Wild (1936) – Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited) Women of Glamour (1937) – Mrs. Stark Another Dawn (1937) – Mrs. Lydia Benton Wee Willie Winkie (1937) – Mrs. MacMonachie The Life of the Party (1937) – Mrs. Saunders (uncredited) One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) – Concert Hall Patron (uncredited) Stage Door (1937) – Cast of Stage Play The Awful Truth (1937) – Mrs. Vance What Do You Think? (Number Three) (1939 short) – Mrs. Dosier (uncredited) Everybody Sing (1938) – Miss Colvin Outside of Paradise (1938) – Mrs. Stonewall The Rage of Paris (1938) – Woman in Opera Box (uncredited) Always Goodbye (1938) – Aunt Martha Marshall You Can't Take It with You (1938) – Meriam Kirby, Anthony's wife Three Loves Has Nancy (1938) – Mrs. Hansen Just Around the Corner (1938) – Miss Vincent (uncredited) You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) – Mrs. Bel-Goodie Fast and Loose (1939) – Mrs. Torrent Risky Business (1939) – Mrs. Jameson The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) – Lady Hilda (uncredited) Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) – Mrs. Withers (uncredited) Outside These Walls (1939) – Gertrude Bishop The Sun Never Sets (1939) – Mrs. Randolph It Could Happen to You (1939) – Mrs. Quigley (uncredited) Should Husbands Work? (1939) – Mrs. Barnes I Stole a Million (1939) – Customer in Flower Shop (uncredited) These Glamour Girls (1939) – Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) – Lady Conyngham Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) – Mrs. Gaynes Ninotchka (1939) – Lady Lavenham – Indignant Woman in Doorway (uncredited) Laddie (1940) – Mrs. Anna Pryor Florian (1940) – Grandmother (uncredited) Blame It on Love (1940) – Mrs. Wadsworth Private Affairs (1940) – Mrs. Stanley All This, and Heaven Too (1940) – Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) Girl from Avenue A (1940) – Minor Role (uncredited) South of Suez (1940) – Mrs. Putnam Back Street (1941) – Mrs. Williams (uncredited) When Ladies Meet (1941) – Freddie's Mother (uncredited) Nothing But the Truth (1941) – Mrs. Ralston Paris Calling (1941) – Lady Guest (uncredited) We Were Dancing (1942) – Mrs. Louise Sandys (uncredited) Klondike Fury (1942) – Lady Leslie Clayfair Twin Beds (1942) – (uncredited) This Above All (1942) – Vicar's Wife (uncredited) Almost Married (1942) – Mrs. Marvin The Great Impersonation (1942) – Lady Leslie Clayfair Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) – Mother Pettibone (uncredited) Mr. Lucky (1943) – War Relief Worker (uncredited) Two Tickets to London (1943) – Dame Dunne Hartley Dangerous Blondes (1943) – Isabel Fleming (uncredited) Flesh and Fantasy (1943) – Lady Thomas (uncredited) Women in Bondage (1943) – Gladys Bracken Jane Eyre (1943) – Mrs. Eshton (uncredited) What a Woman! (1943) – Senator's Wife (uncredited) Tender Comrade (1943) – Mrs. Flanagan – Jo's Mother (uncredited) Ladies Courageous (1944) – Sister Rose (uncredited) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) – Lady Agatha A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (1945) – Mrs. Breckenridge (uncredited) I'll Remember April (1945) – Mrs. Barrington Earl Carroll Vanities (1945) – Queen Mother Elena That's the Spirit (1945) – Minor Role (uncredited) Guest Wife (1945) – Dinner Guest (uncredited) Lady on a Train (1945) – Waring Cousin (uncredited) That Night with You (1945) – Mrs. Brock (uncredited) One Way to Love (1946) – Distinguished Woman (uncredited) Terror by Night (1946) – Lady Margaret Carstairs The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) – Garden Party Guest (uncredited) A Stolen Life (1946) – Art Patron (uncredited) Half-Wits Holiday (1947 short) – Countess Shpritzvasser (uncredited) Cigarette Girl (1947) – Mrs. Halstead The Other Love (1947) – Madame Gruen – Sanitarium Patient (uncredited) Ivy (1947) – Lady Crail (uncredited) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) – Mrs. Pierce (uncredited) Down to Earth (1947) – Mrs. Fenimore Hume (uncredited) Song of Love (1947) – Woman at Party (uncredited) The Exile (1947) – Second Court Lady It Had to Be You (1947) – Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited) The Judge Steps Out (1948) – Margaret (uncredited) The Black Arrow (1948) – Nun (uncredited) You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) – Aunt Martha Pest Man Wins (1951 short) – Party Guest (uncredited) Les Misérables (1952) – Nun (uncredited) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (Season 1 Episode 5: "Into Thin Air" aka "The Vanishing Lady") – Mrs. Herbert Winthrop Houseboat (1958) – British Society Woman (uncredited)