Mary Forbes

Born: 1882-12-30

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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The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Lady Agatha
Released: 1945-03-03

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue...

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A Farewell to Arms

as Miss Van Campen
Released: 1932-12-08

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt....

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Terror by Night

as Lady Margaret Carstairs
Released: 1946-02-01

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of...

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Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Eshton
Released: 1943-12-24

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a...

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Houseboat

as British Society Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1958-11-19

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

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The Awful Truth

as Mrs. Vance
Released: 1937-10-21

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start...

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Stage Door

as Cast of Stage Play
Released: 1937-10-08

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show...

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Captain Blood

as Mrs. Steed
Released: 1935-12-26

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington

as Mrs. Pettibone
Released: 1943-03-24

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en...

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You Can't Take It with You

as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Released: 1938-09-01

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with...

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Ninotchka

as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-23

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who...

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Les Misérables

as Mlle. Baptiseme
Released: 1935-04-20

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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Anna Karenina

as uncredited
Released: 1935-08-30

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Lady Conyngham
Released: 1939-09-01

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to...

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Roberta

as uncredited
Released: 1935-03-07

Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an...

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Cavalcade

as Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-08

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of...

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All This, and Heaven Too

as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-05

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...

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Wee Willie Winkie

as Mrs. MacMonachie
Released: 1937-07-30

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army...

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Mr. Lucky

as War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-01

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his...

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Lady on a Train

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-03

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building....

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The Devil to Pay!

as Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Released: 1930-12-18

Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none...

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Sadie McKee

as Mrs. Alderson (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-09

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

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Another Dawn

as Mrs. Lydia Benton
Released: 1937-06-26

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to...

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Theodora Goes Wild

as Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-12

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They...

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Abraham Lincoln

as Actress (uncredited)
Released: 1930-11-08

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining...

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Bombshell

as Mrs. Middleton
Released: 1933-10-13

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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I Stole a Million

as Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-01

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Released: 1939-02-17

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run...

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Les Miserables

as Nun (uncredited)
Released: 1952-08-14

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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We Live Again

as Mrs. Kortchagin
Released: 1934-11-01

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial,...

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This Above All

as Vicar's Wife
Released: 1942-05-12

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF...

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Tender Comrade

as Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-30

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II,...

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Earl Carroll Vanities

as Queen Mother Elena
Released: 1945-04-05

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues...

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Dangerous Blondes

as Isabel Fleming (uncredited)
Released: 1943-09-23

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving...

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Ivy

as Lady Crail (uncredited)
Released: 1947-06-26

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what...

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It Had to Be You

as Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-07

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

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Two Heads on a Pillow

as Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
Released: 1934-10-02

A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.

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You Gotta Stay Happy

as Aunt Martha
Released: 1948-10-28

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to...

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The Perfect Gentleman

as Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Released: 1935-11-22

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively...

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The Life of the Party

as Mrs. Saunders
Released: 1937-09-03

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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The Rage of Paris

as Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-09

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to...

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Strictly Unconventional

as Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Released: 1930-05-03

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic...

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Stranded

as Grace Dean (uncredited)
Released: 1935-06-29

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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The Judge Steps Out

as Margaret (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-15

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

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Fast and Loose

as Mrs. Torrent
Released: 1939-02-17

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

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Nothing But the Truth

as Mrs. Ralston
Released: 1941-10-10

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth,...

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British Agent

as Lady Catherine Trehearne
Released: 1934-09-15

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St...

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East Is West

as Mrs. Benson
Released: 1930-10-23

Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by...

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Holiday

as Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited)
Released: 1930-07-03

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy...

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Born to Love

as The Duchess (uncredited)
Released: 1931-04-17

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been...

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Blind Date

as Mrs. Hartwell
Released: 1934-07-20

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who...

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Rendezvous

as Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-25

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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One Hundred Men and a Girl

as Concert Hall Patron
Released: 1937-09-05

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed...

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Sunny Side Up

as Mrs. Cromwell
Released: 1929-12-25

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store....

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The Widow from Monte Carlo

as Lady Holloway
Released: 1935-12-19

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she...

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The Ice Follies of 1939

as Lady Hilda (Uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-10

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary...

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Wedding Present

as Mrs. Dodacker
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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The Silent Witness

as Lady Howard
Released: 1932-02-07

A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a...

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Shock

as Lady Heatherly
Released: 1934-07-19

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a...

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Two Tickets to London

as Dame Dunne Hartley
Released: 1943-06-14

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to...

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Back Street

as Mrs. Williams
Released: 1941-02-07

Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie...

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Outside These Walls

as Gertrude Bishop
Released: 1939-05-04

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper....

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The Brat

as Mrs. Forester
Released: 1931-08-23

A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration...

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Everybody Sing

as Miss Colvin
Released: 1938-01-01

Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her...

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These Glamour Girls

as Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-18

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he...

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Twin Beds

as uncredited
Released: 1942-04-30

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of...

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The Man Who Came Back

as Mrs. Gaynes
Released: 1931-01-11

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his...

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Vanity Fair

as Mrs. Sedley
Released: 1932-03-15

An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of...

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A Lost Lady

as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
Released: 1934-09-29

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

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The Exile

as Second Court Lady
Released: 1947-10-17

In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up

as Mrs. Withers
Released: 1939-03-24

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together,...

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Dizzy Dames

as Mrs. Stokes
Released: 1935-05-29

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.

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Chances

as Mrs. Ingleside
Released: 1931-07-18

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go...

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The Great Impersonation

as Lady Leslie Clayfair
Released: 1942-12-18

An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

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You Can't Buy Everything

as Kate Farley
Released: 1934-01-26

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

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The White Angel

as Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-25

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards...

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The Thirteenth Chair

as Lady Alice Crosby
Released: 1929-10-19

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap...

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Risky Business

as Mrs. Jameson
Released: 1939-03-03

Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has...

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Klondike Fury

as Mrs. Langton
Released: 1942-03-20

In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation....

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Three Loves Has Nancy

as Mrs. Hanson
Released: 1938-09-02

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically...

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Working Girls

as Mrs. Johnstone
Released: 1931-12-12

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister...

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The Trespasser

as Mrs. Ferguson
Released: 1929-11-11

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His...

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Always Goodbye

as Aunt Martha Marshall
Released: 1938-06-24

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor...

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Most Precious Thing in Life

as Mrs. Kelsey
Released: 1934-06-15

An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's...

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Hollywood Cavalcade

as Mrs. Gaynes
Released: 1939-10-13

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...

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Florian

as Grandmother
Released: 1940-06-05

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...

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Almost Married

as Mrs. Marvin
Released: 1942-05-22

To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.

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South of Suez

as Mrs. Putnam
Released: 1940-11-16

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him...

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What Do You Think? (Number Three)

as Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1938-01-15

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in...

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Private Affairs

as Mrs. Stanley
Released: 1940-07-05

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up...

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Laddie

as Mrs. Anna Pryor
Released: 1940-01-18

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military...

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Women of Glamour

as Mrs. Stark
Released: 1937-03-09

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

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So This Is London

as Lady Worthing
Released: 1930-05-23

Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British....

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Her Private Life

as Ladu Wildering
Released: 1929-08-25

A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young...

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Happiness Ahead

as Mrs. Travis
Released: 1934-10-27

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by...

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Laddie

as Mrs. Anna Pryor
Released: 1935-03-18

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by...

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The Sun Never Sets

as Mrs. Randolph
Released: 1939-05-31

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes...

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Outside of Paradise

as Mrs. Stonewall
Released: 1938-02-08

Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected...

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She Was a Lady

as Lady Diana Vane
Released: 1934-08-22

Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded...

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The Lady Clare

as Lady Julia Medwin
Released: 1919-01-01

A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the...

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Cigarette Girl

as Mrs. Halstead
Released: 1947-02-13

A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.

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I'll Remember April

as Mrs. Barrington
Released: 1945-04-01

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets...

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Blame It on Love

as Mrs. Wadsworth
Released: 1940-06-18

A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Suspicion

as Mrs. Merton
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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