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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.
Filmography
all 109
Movies 107
TV Shows 2
Houseboat (1958)
Suspicion (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Les Miserables (1952)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
It Had to Be You (1947)
The Exile (1947)
Ivy (1947)
Cigarette Girl (1947)
Half-Wits Holiday (1947)
Terror by Night (1946)
Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
I'll Remember April (1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Tender Comrade (1944)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Women in Bondage (1943)
Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
Two Tickets to London (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
The Great Impersonation (1942)
Almost Married (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Klondike Fury (1942)
Nothing But the Truth (1941)
Back Street (1941)
South of Suez (1940)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Private Affairs (1940)
Blame It on Love (1940)
Florian (1940)
Laddie (1940)
Ninotchka (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
These Glamour Girls (1939)
I Stole a Million (1939)
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
Outside These Walls (1939)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
Risky Business (1939)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Fast and Loose (1939)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Always Goodbye (1938)
The Rage of Paris (1938)
Outside of Paradise (1938)
What Do You Think? (Number Three) (1938)
Everybody Sing (1938)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
The Life of the Party (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Another Dawn (1937)
Women of Glamour (1937)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Wedding Present (1936)
The White Angel (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935)
The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
Rendezvous (1935)
Stranded (1935)
Dizzy Dames (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Laddie (1935)
We Live Again (1934)
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
A Lost Lady (1934)
British Agent (1934)
She Was a Lady (1934)
Blind Date (1934)
Shock (1934)
Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
Bombshell (1933)
The Masquerader (1933)
Cavalcade (1933)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Vanity Fair (1932)
The Silent Witness (1932)
Stepping Sisters (1932)
Working Girls (1931)
The Brat (1931)
Chances (1931)
Born to Love (1931)
The Man Who Came Back (1931)
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
East Is West (1930)
Holiday (1930)
So This Is London (1930)
Strictly Unconventional (1930)
Sunny Side Up (1929)
The Trespasser (1929)
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Her Private Life (1929)
Women Who Win (1919)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1882-12-30
Deathday1974-07-22 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceHornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
ChildrenBrenda Forbes, Ralph Forbes
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsEthel Louise Young
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