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Mary Forbes
Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
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…
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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.
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1958
Houseboat
Movie British Society Woman (uncredited)
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1957
Suspicion
TV show Mrs. Merton
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
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1952
Les Miserables
Movie Nun (uncredited)
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1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
Movie Aunt Martha
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1948
The Black Arrow
Movie Nun (uncredited)
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1947
The Judge Steps Out
Movie Margaret (uncredited)
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1947
It Had to Be You
Movie Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
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1947
The Exile
Movie Second Court Lady
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1947
Ivy
Movie Lady Crail (uncredited)
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1947
Cigarette Girl
Movie Mrs. Halstead
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1946
Terror by Night
Movie Lady Margaret Carstairs
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1945
Lady on a Train
Movie
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1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
Movie Queen Mother Elena
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1945
I'll Remember April
Movie Mrs. Barrington
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1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie Lady Agatha
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1944
Tender Comrade
Movie Jo's Mother (uncredited)
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1943
Jane Eyre
Movie Mrs. Eshton
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1943
Dangerous Blondes
Movie Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
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1943
Mr. Lucky
Movie War Relief Worker (uncredited)
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1943
Two Tickets to London
Movie Dame Dunne Hartley
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1943
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Movie Mrs. Pettibone
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1942
The Great Impersonation
Movie Lady Leslie Clayfair
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1942
Almost Married
Movie Mrs. Marvin
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1942
This Above All
Movie Vicar's Wife
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1942
Twin Beds
Movie
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1942
Klondike Fury
Movie Mrs. Langton
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1941
Nothing but the Truth
Movie Mrs. Ralston
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1941
Back Street
Movie Mrs. Williams
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1940
South of Suez
Movie Mrs. Putnam
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1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
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1940
Private Affairs
Movie Mrs. Stanley
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1940
Blame It on Love
Movie Mrs. Wadsworth
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1940
Florian
Movie Grandmother
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1940
Laddie
Movie Mrs. Anna Pryor
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1939
Ninotchka
Movie Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
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1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie Mrs. Gaynes
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1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Movie Lady Conyngham
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1939
These Glamour Girls
Movie Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
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1939
I Stole a Million
Movie Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
