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Mary Forbes (I) (1879–1974)

Actress

Trivia:

Mother of players Brenda Forbes and Ralph Forbes.

Born:

in Hornsey, England, UK

Died:

(age 94) in Beaumont, California, USA
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1958 Houseboat
British Society Woman (uncredited)
 
1958 Suspicion (TV series)
Mrs. Merton
– Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1958) … Mrs. Merton
 
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Mrs. Winthrop
– Into Thin Air (1955) … Mrs. Winthrop
 
1955 Front Row Center (TV series)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
– Meeting at Mayerling (1955) … Empress Elisabeth of Austria
 
1954 Fireside Theatre (TV series)
– Second Elopement (1954)
 
1952 Les Miserables
Nun (uncredited)
 
1949 The Judge Steps Out
Margaret (uncredited)
 
1948 You Gotta Stay Happy
Aunt Martha
 
1948 The Black Arrow
Nun (uncredited)
 
1947 It Had to Be You
Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
 
1947 The Exile
Second Court Lady
 
1947 Song of Love
Woman at Party (uncredited)
 
1947 Down to Earth
Mrs. Fenimore Hume (uncredited)
 
1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Pierce (uncredited)
 
1947 Ivy
Lady Crail (uncredited)
 
1947 The Other Love
Madame Gruen - Sanitarium Patient (uncredited)
 
1947 Cigarette Girl
Mrs. Halstead
 
1946 A Stolen Life
Art Patron (uncredited)
 
1946 The Kid from Brooklyn
Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
 
1946 Terror by Night
Lady Margaret Carstairs
 
1946 One Way to Love
Distinguished Woman (uncredited)
 
1945 That Night with You
Mrs. Brock (uncredited)
 
1945 Lady on a Train
Waring Cousin (uncredited)
 
1945 Guest Wife
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
 
1945 That's the Spirit
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 
1945 Earl Carroll Vanities
Queen Mother Elena
 
1945 I'll Remember April
Mrs. Barrington
 
1945 A Guy, a Gal and a Pal
Mrs. Breckenridge (uncredited)
 
1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lady Agatha
 
1944 Ladies Courageous
Sister Rose (uncredited)
 
1943 Tender Comrade
Mrs. Flanagan - Jo's Mother (uncredited)
 
1943 What a Woman!
Senator's Wife (uncredited)
 
1943 Jane Eyre
Mrs. Eshton (uncredited)
 
1943 Women in Bondage
Gladys Bracken
 
1943 Flesh and Fantasy
Lady Thomas (uncredited)
 
1943 Dangerous Blondes
Aunt Isabel' Fleming (uncredited)
 
1943 Two Tickets to London
Dame Dunne Hartley
 
1943 Mr. Lucky
War Relief Worker (uncredited)
 
1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Mother Pettibone (uncredited)
 
1942 The Great Impersonation
Lady Leslie Clayfair
 
1942 Almost Married
Mrs. Marvin
 
1942 This Above All
Vicar's Wife (uncredited)
 
1942 We Were Dancing
Mrs. Louise Sandys (uncredited)
 
1942 Twin Beds (uncredited)
 
1942 Klondike Fury
Mrs. Langton
 
1941 Paris Calling
Lady Guest (uncredited)
 
1941 Nothing But the Truth
Mrs. Ralston
 
1941 When Ladies Meet
Freddie's Mother, Fourth Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
 
1941 Back Street
Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
 
1940 South of Suez
Mrs. Putnam
 
1940 Girl from Avenue A
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1940 Private Affairs
Mrs. Stanley
 
1940 All This, and Heaven Too
Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
 
1940 Florian
Grandmother (uncredited)
 
1940 Laddie
Mrs. Anna Pryor
 
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
Mrs. Gaynes
 
1939 Ninotchka
Lady Lavenham - Indignant Woman in Doorway (uncredited)
 
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Lady Conyngham
 
1939 These Glamour Girls
Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
 
1939 I Stole a Million
Customer in Flower Shop (uncredited)
 
1939 Should Husbands Work?
Mrs. Barnes
 
1939 It Could Happen to You
Mrs. Quigley (uncredited)
 
1939 The Sun Never Sets
Mrs. Randolph
 
1939 Outside These Walls
Gertrude Bishop
 
1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Mrs. Withers (uncredited)
 
1939 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Mrs. Bel-Goodie
 
1939 Fast and Loose
Mrs. Torrent
 
1939 Risky Business
Mrs. Jameson
 
1938 Just Around the Corner
Miss Vincent (uncredited)
 
1938 Three Loves Has Nancy
Mrs. Hansen
 
1938 You Can't Take It with You
Mrs. Anthony Kirby
 
1938 Always Goodbye
Aunt Martha Marshall
 
1938 The Rage of Paris
Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
 
1938 Outside of Paradise
Mrs. Stonewall
 
1938 Everybody Sing
Miss Colvin
 
1938 What Do You Think? (Number Three) (short)
Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
 
1937 The Awful Truth
Mrs. Vance
 
1937 Stage Door
Cast of Stage Play
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl
Concert Hall Patron (uncredited)
 
1937 The Life of the Party
Mrs. Saunders (uncredited)
 
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
Mrs. MacMonachie
 
1937 Another Dawn
Mrs. Lydia Benton
 
1937 Women of Glamour
Mrs. Stark
 
1936 Theodora Goes Wild
Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
 
1936 Wedding Present
Mrs. Dodacker
 
1936 The White Angel
First Lady Disapproving of Florence (uncredited)
 
1935 The Widow from Monte Carlo
Lady Holloway
 
1935 Captain Blood
Mrs. Steed
 
1935 The Perfect Gentleman
Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
 
1935 Rendezvous
Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
 
1935 Anna Karenina
Princess Sorokina
 
1935 Stranded
Grace Dean (uncredited)
 
1935 Dizzy Dames
Mrs. Stokes
 
1935 Les Misérables
Mlle. Baptiseme
 
1935 Laddie
Mrs. Anna Pryor
 
1935 McFadden's Flats (uncredited)
 
1935 Roberta
Mrs. Teale (uncredited)
 
1934 The Painted Veil
Mrs. Braithwaite (uncredited)
 
1934 We Live Again
Mrs. Kortchagin (uncredited)
 
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Passenger Campbell Sits Next To (uncredited)
 
1934 Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Travis
 
1934 Two Heads on a Pillow
Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
 
1934 A Lost Lady
Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
 
1934 British Agent
Lady Catherine Trehearne
 
1934 Ela Foi uma Dama
Lady Diana Vane
 
1934 Shock
Lady Heatherly (uncredited)
 
1934 Blind Date
Mrs. Hartwell
 
1934 Now I'll Tell
Mrs. Drake (scenes deleted)
 
1934 The Most Precious Thing in Life
Mrs. Kelsey
 
1934 Born to Be Bad
Admirer at Nightclub (uncredited)
 
1934 Sadie McKee
Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
 
1934 Carolina
Aunt Catherine (uncredited)
 
1934 You Can't Buy Everything
Kate Farley
 
1933 Bombshell
Mrs. Middleton
 
1933 Cavalcade
Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
 
1932 A Farewell to Arms
Miss Van Campen
 
1932 Vanity Fair
Mrs. Sedley
 
1932 Silent Witness
Lady Howard (uncredited)
 
1932 Stepping Sisters
Mrs. Tremaine
 
1931 Working Girls
Mrs. Johnstone
 
1931 The Brat
Mrs. Forester
 
1931 Chances
Mrs. Ingleside
 
1931 Born to Love
The Duchess (uncredited)
 
1931 The Man Who Came Back
Mrs. Gaynes
 
1930 The Devil to Pay!
Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
 
1930 East Is West
Mrs. Benson
 
1930 Abraham Lincoln
Actress (uncredited)
 
1930 Holiday
Mrs. Pritchard Ames
 
1930 So This Is London
Lady Worthing
 
1930 Strictly Unconventional
Mrs. Anna Shenstone
 
1929 Sunnyside Up
Mrs. Cromwell
 
1929 The Trespasser
Mrs. Ferguson
 
1929 The Thirteenth Chair
Lady Crosby
 
1929 Her Private Life
Ladu Wildering
 
1927 Tillie the Toiler
Mrs. Fish - Pennington's Mother (uncredited)
 
1920 Inheritance
Lady Isabel
 
1920 Nance
Felicia Damarche
 
1919 The Lady Clare
Lady Julia Medwin
 
1919 Women Who Win
Ella Graham
 

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