Mary Forbes
AKA: Ethel Louise Young
Birthday: 1882-12-30
Died: 1974-07-22
Birthplace: 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.
Filmography
Character: Lady Margaret Carstairs
Character: Miss Van Campen
Character: Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Character: Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Character: Mrs. Middleton
Character: Mlle. Baptiseme
Character: Lady Conyngham
Character: Aunt Martha Marshall
Character: Lady Alice Crosby
Character: Mrs. Ingleside
Character: Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Johnstone
Character: Mrs. Stonewall
Character: Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Character: Mrs. Anna Pryor
Character: Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
Character: The Duchess (uncredited)
Character: Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
Character: Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Character: Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Lydia Benton
Character: Lady Heatherly
Character: Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. MacMonachie
Character: Queen Mother Elena
Character: Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
Character: Lady Leslie Clayfair
Character: Grace Dean (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Pettibone
Character: War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Character: Second Court Lady
Character: Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Character: Cast of Stage Play
Character: Actress (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Barrington
Character: Ladu Wildering
Character: Concert Hall Patron
Character: Lady Hilda (Uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Pritchard Ames
Character: Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
Character: Lady Diana Vane
Character: Lady Catherine Trehearne
Character: Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Character: Gertrude Bishop
Character: Dame Dunne Hartley
Character: Mrs. Wadsworth
Character: Margaret (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Anna Pryor
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Character: Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Character: British Society Woman (uncredited)
Character: Lady Crail (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Kortchagin
Character: Duchess of Churt (uncredited)