Mary Forbes
from Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
from Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
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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.
British Society Woman (uncredited)
Nun (uncredited)
Nun (uncredited)
Aunt Martha
Mrs. Halstead
Lady Crail (uncredited)
Second Court Lady
Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
Margaret (uncredited)
Lady Margaret Carstairs
Lady Agatha
Mrs. Barrington
Queen Mother Elena
(Unknown)
Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Mrs. Pettibone
Dame Dunne Hartley
War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
Mrs. Eshton
Mrs. Langton
(Unknown)
Vicar's Wife
Mrs. Marvin
Lady Leslie Clayfair
Mrs. Williams
Mrs. Ralston
Mrs. Anna Pryor
Grandmother
Mrs. Wadsworth
Mrs. Stanley
Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Mrs. Putnam
Mrs. Torrent
Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Mrs. Jameson
Lady Hilda (uncredited)
Mrs. Withers
Gertrude Bishop
Mrs. Randolph
Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
Lady Conyngham
Mrs. Gaynes
Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
Miss Colvin
Mrs. Stonewall
Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Aunt Martha Marshall
Mrs. Anthony Kirby
Mrs. Hanson
Mrs. Stark
Mrs. Lydia Benton
Mrs. MacMonachie
Mrs. Saunders
Concert Hall Patron
Cast of Stage Play
Mrs. Vance
Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Mrs. Dodacker
Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Mrs. Anna Pryor
Mlle. Baptiseme
Mrs. Stokes
Grace Dean (uncredited)
Princess Sorokina
Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Lady Holloway
Mrs. Steed
Kate Farley
Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
Mrs. Kelsey
Lady Heatherly
Mrs. Hartwell
Lady Diana Vane
Lady Catherine Trehearne
Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
Mrs. Travis
Mrs. Kortchagin
Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
Mrs. Middleton
Lady Howard
Mrs. Sedley
Miss Van Campen
Mrs. Gaynes
The Duchess (uncredited)
Mrs. Ingleside
Mrs. Forester
Mrs. Johnstone
Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Lady Worthing
Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
Mrs. Benson
Actress (uncredited)
Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Ladu Wildering
Lady Alice Crosby
Mrs. Ferguson
Mrs. Cromwell
Lady Julia Medwin
(Unknown)
The Woman's Portion
Lizzie