Mary Forbes
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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
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.
Born
Dec 30, 1882
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
Died
Jul 22, 1974
Known For
Acting
Movies
106 acting
0 crew
Popularity
0.7
Known For
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Lady Agatha
You Can't Take It with You
1938
as Mrs. Anthony Kirby
Ninotchka
1939
as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
1943
as Mrs. Eshton
A Farewell to Arms
1932
as Miss Van Campen
Captain Blood
1935
as Mrs. Steed
Houseboat
1958
as British Society Woman (uncredited)
Terror by Night
1946
as Lady Margaret Carstairs
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Lady Conyngham
The Awful Truth
1937
as Mrs. Vance
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