| Mary
Forbes
1879
- 1974 |
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The actress Mary Forbes came from the stage when she appeared in a
movie in 1919 for the first time called "Women Who Win" (19).
In the next years she acted in some more silent movies like "The Lady
Clare" (19), "Inheritance" (20) and "Her Private Life" (29).
The film became more important in her career from the 30's and she
impersonated numerous support roles in productions like "Abraham Lincoln"
(30), "Working Girls" (31), "Vanity Fair" (32), "Bombshell" (33), "Sadie
McKee" (34), "A Lost Lady" (34), "The Peinted Veil" (34), "Les Misérables"
(35), "The Widow from Monte Carlo" (35), "Captain Blood" (35), "Wee Willie
Winkie" (37), "Stage Door" (37), "The Rage of Paris" (38), "Risky Business"
(39), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (39) and "Ninotchka" (39).
The 40's turned out to be very busy too and she took part in well-known
movies like "Private Affairs" (40), "We Were Dancing" (42), "The Great
Impersonation" (42), "Dangerous Blondes" (43), "Flesh and Fantasy" (43),
"Jane Eyre" (44), "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (45), "Terror by Night"
(46), "The Kid from Brooklyn" (46), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (47),
"The Black Arrow" (48) and "The Judge Steps Out" (49).
Afterwards her appearances in front of the camera diminished and she
appeared mainly in TV productions.
To her last cinematical works belong "Les Misérables" (52) and
a small part in "Houseboat" (58) with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren.
Her daughter Brenda Forbes and her son Ralph Forbes became also actors.
Other movies with Mary Forbes:
Nance (20) The Thirteenth Chair
(29) The Trespasser (29) Sunnyside Up (29) Strictly Unconventional (30)
So This Is London (30) Holiday (30) East Is West (30) The Devil to Pay!
(30) The Man Who Came Back (31) Born to Love (31) Chances (31) The Brat
(31) Stepping Sisters (32) Silent Witness (32) A Farewell to Arms (32)
Cavalcade (33) You Can't Buy Everything (34) Carolina (34) Born to Be Bad
(34) The Most Precious Thing in Life (34) Blind Date (34) Shock (34) Britsh
Agent (34) Two Heads on a Pillow (34) Happiness Ahead (34) We Live Again
(34) Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (34) Roberta (35) McFadden's Flats (35)
Laddie (35) Dizzy Dames (35) Stranded (35) Anna Karenina (35) Rendezvous
(35) The Perfect Gentleman (35) The White Angel (36) Wedding Present (36)
Theodora Goes Wild (36) Women of Glamour (37) Another Dawn (37) The Life
of the Party (37) One Hundred Men and a Girl (37) The Awful Truth (37)
What Do You Think? (Number Three) (38) Everybody Sing (38) Outside of Paradise
(38) Always Goodbye (38) You Can't Take It with You (38) Three Loves Has
Nancy (38) Just Around the Corner (38) You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (39)
Fast and Loose (39) Three Smart Girls Grow Up (39) Outside These Walls
(39) The Sun Never Sets (39) Should Husbands Work? (39) I Stole a Million
(39) These Glamour Girls (39) Hollywood Cavalcade (39) Laddie (40) Florian
(40) All This, and Heaven Too (40) Girl from Avenue A (40) South of Suez
(40) Back Street (41) When Ladies Meet (41) Nothing But the Truth (41)
Paris Calling (41) Klondike Fury (42) Twin Beds (42) This Above All (42)
Almost Married (42) Sherlock Holmes in Washington (43) Mr. Lucky (43) Two
Tickets to London (43) Women in Bondage (43) What a Woman! (43) Tender
Comrade (43) Ladies Courageous (44) A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (45) I'll Remember
April (45) Earl Carroll Vanities (45) That's the Spirit (45) Guest Wife
(45) Lady on a Train (45) That Night with You (45) One Way to Love (46)
A Stolen Life (46) Cigarette Girl (47) The Other Love (47) Ivy (47) Down
to Earth (47) Song of Love (47) The Exile (47) It Had to Be You (47) You
Gotta Stay Happy (48) Serie "Fireside Theatre: Second Elopement" (54) Serie
"Front Row Center: Meeting at Mayerling" (55) Serie "Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
Into Thin Air" (55) Serie "Suspicion: Lord Arthur Saville's Crime" (58) |
