Mary Forbes
Mary Forbes 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 from 1919 to 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
Women Who Win - Ella GrahamThe Lady Clare - Lady Julia MedwinNance - Felicia DamarcheInheritance - Lady IsabelTillie the Toiler - Mrs. Fish - Pennington's Mother Her Private Life - Ladu WilderingSunny Side Up - Mrs. CromwellThe Thirteenth Chair - Lady CrosbyThe Trespasser - Mrs. FergusonStrictly Unconventional - Mrs. Anna ShenstoneSo This Is London - Lady WorthingHoliday - Mrs. Pritchard Ames Abraham Lincoln - Actress East Is West - Mrs. BensonThe Devil to Pay! - Mrs. Hope The Man Who Came Back - Mrs. GaynesBorn to Love - The Duchess Chances - Mrs. InglesideThe Brat - Mrs. Mary ForresterWorking Girls - Mrs. JohnstoneStepping Sisters - Mrs. TremaineThe Silent Witness - Lady HowardVanity Fair - Mrs. SedleyA Farewell to Arms - Miss Van CampenShock - Lady HeatherlyCavalcade The Masquerader - Duchess of Churt Bombshell - Mrs. MiddletonYou Can't Buy Everything - Kate FarleyCarolina - Aunt Catherine Sadie McKee - Mrs. Alderson Born to Be Bad - Admirer at Nightclub The Most Precious Thing in Life - Mrs. KelseyNow I'll Tell - Mrs. Drake Shock - Lady Heatherly Blind Date - Mrs. HartwellShe Was a Lady - Lady Diana VaneOh Sailor Behave British Agent - Lady Catherine TrehearneA Lost Lady - Mrs. Hardy Two Heads on a Pillow - Mrs. Caroline DevonshireHappiness Ahead - Mrs. TravisTransatlantic Merry-Go-Round - Passenger Campbell Sits Next To We Live Again - Mrs. Kortchagin The Painted Veil - Mrs. Braithwaite Roberta - Mrs. Teale McFadden's Flats Laddie - Mrs. Anna PryorLes Misérables - Mlle. BaptisemeDizzy Dames - Mrs. StokesStranded - Grace Dean Anna Karenina - Princess SorokinaRendezvous - Lady Cavendish The Perfect Gentleman - Lady Clyffe-PembrookThe Widow from Monte Carlo - Lady HollowayCaptain Blood - Mrs. SteedThe White Angel - First Lady Disapproving of Florence Wedding Present - Mrs. DodackerTheodora Goes Wild - Mrs. Wyatt Women of Glamour - Mrs. StarkAnother Dawn - Mrs. Lydia BentonWee Willie Winkie - Mrs. MacMonachieThe Life of the Party - Mrs. Saunders One Hundred Men and a Girl - Concert Hall Patron Stage Door - Cast of Stage PlayThe Awful Truth - Mrs. VanceWhat Do You Think? - Mrs. Dosier Everybody Sing - Miss ColvinOutside of Paradise - Mrs. StonewallThe Rage of Paris - Woman in Opera Box Always Goodbye - Aunt Martha MarshallYou Can't Take It with You - Meriam Kirby, Anthony's wifeThree Loves Has Nancy - Mrs. HansenJust Around the Corner - Miss Vincent You Can't Cheat an Honest Man - Mrs. Bel-GoodieFast and Loose - Mrs. TorrentRisky Business - Mrs. JamesonThe Ice Follies of 1939 - Lady Hilda Three Smart Girls Grow Up - Mrs. Withers Outside These Walls - Gertrude BishopThe Sun Never Sets - Mrs. RandolphIt Could Happen to You - Mrs. Quigley Should Husbands Work? - Mrs. BarnesI Stole a Million - Customer in Flower Shop These Glamour Girls - Mrs. Van Reichton The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Lady ConynghamHollywood Cavalcade - Mrs. GaynesNinotchka - Lady Lavenham - Indignant Woman in Doorway Laddie - Mrs. Anna PryorFlorian - Grandmother Blame It on Love - Mrs. WadsworthPrivate Affairs - Mrs. StanleyAll This, and Heaven Too - Lady at the Theatre Girl from Avenue A - Minor Role South of Suez - Mrs. PutnamBack Street - Mrs. Williams When Ladies Meet - Freddie's Mother Nothing But the Truth - Mrs. RalstonParis Calling - Lady Guest We Were Dancing - Mrs. Louise Sandys Klondike Fury - Lady Leslie ClayfairTwin Beds - This Above All - Vicar's Wife Almost Married - Mrs. MarvinThe Great Impersonation - Lady Leslie ClayfairSherlock Holmes in Washington - Mother Pettibone Mr. Lucky - War Relief Worker Two Tickets to London - Dame Dunne HartleyDangerous Blondes - Isabel Fleming Flesh and Fantasy - Lady Thomas Women in Bondage - Gladys BrackenJane Eyre - Mrs. Eshton What a Woman! - Senator's Wife Tender Comrade - Mrs. Flanagan - Jo's Mother Ladies Courageous - Sister Rose The Picture of Dorian Gray - Lady AgathaA Guy, a Gal and a Pal - Mrs. Breckenridge I'll Remember April - Mrs. BarringtonEarl Carroll Vanities - Queen Mother ElenaThat's the Spirit - Minor Role Guest Wife - Dinner Guest Lady on a Train - Waring Cousin That Night with You - Mrs. Brock One Way to Love - Distinguished Woman Terror by Night - Lady Margaret CarstairsThe Kid from Brooklyn - Garden Party Guest A Stolen Life - Art Patron Half-Wits Holiday - Countess Shpritzvasser Cigarette Girl - Mrs. HalsteadThe Other Love - Madame Gruen - Sanitarium Patient Ivy - Lady Crail The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Mrs. Pierce Down to Earth - Mrs. Fenimore Hume Song of Love - Woman at Party The Exile - Second Court LadyIt Had to Be You - Mrs. Kimberly The Judge Steps Out - Margaret The Black Arrow - Nun You Gotta Stay Happy - Aunt MarthaPest Man Wins - Party Guest Les Misérables - Nun Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Mrs. Herbert WinthropHouseboat - British Society Woman