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Mary Forbes filmography
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The list Mary Forbes filmography includes
You Can't Take It With You, Just Around the Corner, Three Loves Has Nancy, The Trespasser and The Man Who Came Back.
The list consists of 148 members.
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You Can't Take It with You
1938 film by Frank Capra
Role: Mrs. Anthony KirbyAge at the time: 55
Overview: You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the ...Release date: 23 August 1938Genre: Comedy, Romance, DramaDirector: Frank CapraProducer: Frank CapraWriter: Robert Riskin, George S. KaufmanThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family, not realizing that his father is ...
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Just Around the Corner
1938 film by Irving Cummings
Role: Miss VincentAge at the time: 55
Overview: Just Around the Corner is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings, and written by Ethel Hill, Darrell Ware and J. P. McEvoy, based on the novel Lucky Penny by Paul Gerard Smith ...Release date: 11 November 1938Genre: Musical, Comedy, DramaDirector: Irving CummingsProducer: David HempsteadWriter: Ethel Hill, J.P. McEvoyShirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson ... 0
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Three Loves Has Nancy
1938 film by Richard Thorpe
Role: Mrs. HansenAge at the time: 55
Overview: Three Loves Has Nancy is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone. It is set in New York City.Release date: 2 September 1938Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Richard ThorpeProducer: Norman KrasnaWriter: Mortimer Braus, David HertzA small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men. 0
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The Trespasser
1929 film
Role: Mrs. FergusonAge at the time: 46
Overview: The Trespasser is a 1929 American pre-Code film written and directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall, and Wally Albright. The film was released ...Release date: 11 November 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Edmund GouldingProducer: Edmund Goulding, Joseph P. KennedyWriter: Edmund GouldingThe trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband. 0
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The Man Who Came Back
1931 film
Role: Mrs. GaynesAge at the time: 48
Overview: The Man Who Came Back is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play ...Release date: 11 January 1931Genre: DramaDirector: Raoul WalshProducer: Raoul WalshWriter: John Fleming Wilson, Jules Eckert Goodman 0
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Sunny Side Up
1929 film by David Butler
Role: Mrs. CromwellAge at the time: 46
Overview: Sunny Side Up (stylized on-screen as Sunnyside Up) is a 1929 American pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. ...Release date: 25 December 1929Genre: Comedy, MusicalDirector: David ButlerProducer: David Butler, Buddy G. DeSylvaWriter: Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew BrownMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol... 0
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Houseboat
1958 film by Melville Shavelson
Role: British Society WomanAge at the time: 75
Overview: Houseboat is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson. It was presented in Technicolor and VistaVision.Release date: 19 November 1958Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, RomanceDirector: Melville ShavelsonProducer: Jack RoseWriter: Melville Shavelson, Jack RoseA widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly ne ... 0
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Suspicion
American TV series or programRole: Mrs. Merton
Overview: Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1958. The executive producer of half of the filmed episodes (10) of Suspicion was film director ...Release date: 30 September 1957Genre: DramaDirector: Don Medford, James NeilsonProducer: Joan Harrison, Alfred HitchcockWriter: Stirling Silliphant, Ernest KinoyThe show consisted of 40 episodes, half were live and half were on film. The shows, often involving murder... 0
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10.Role: Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Release date: 1 June 1955Genre: Drama, Romance, BiographyDirector: Ralph Nelson, Fletcher MarkleProducer: Fletcher Markle, Edgar PetersonWriter: Whitfield Cook, F. Scott Fitzgerald 0
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
American television anthology series
Role: Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
Overview: Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, th ...Release date: 2 October 1955Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Crime, DramaDirector: Robert Stevens, Paul HenreidCast: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams, Patricia Hitchcock, Arthur Gould-Porter, Raymond BaileyProducer: Joan Harrison, Norman LloydWriter: J.W. Aaron, David AlexanderSeries of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama and comedy about people of different species committing murders, suicides ... 0
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Les Miserables
1952 American film based on the novel directed by Lewis MilestoneRole: NunAge at the time: 69
Overview: Les Misérables is a 1952 American film adapted from the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert ...Release date: 14 August 1952Genre: Drama, History, RomanceDirector: Lewis MilestoneProducer: Victor Hugo, Richard MurphyA parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman. 0
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13.Role: Mrs. Oliphant
Release date: 2 October 1952Genre: Drama, Musical, Comedy, MusicDirector: James Neilson, Ted PostProducer: Irving Starr, Frederick BriskinWriter: Karen DeWolf, Gerry DayThe show started in New York with Broadway actors. It then moved to Hollywood where Hollywood actors headed the cast. 0
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Pest Man Wins
1951 film by Jules WhiteRole: Party GuestAge at the time: 68
Overview: Pest Man Wins is a 1951 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 136th entry in the series r ...Release date: 6 December 1951Genre: Short, ComedyDirector: Jules WhiteProducer: Felix Adler, Jules WhiteThe stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on... 0
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Fireside Theatre
American anthology television series
Overview: Fireside Theatre (later known as Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre, Jane Wyman Theatre, The Jane Wyman Show and Jane Wyman Presents) is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 ...Release date: 5 April 1949Genre: DramaDirector: Frank Wisbar, John ReinhardtProducer: Frank Wisbar, Sidney SmithWriter: David Victor, Herbert Little Jr. 0
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You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 film by H. C. Potter
Role: Aunt MarthaAge at the time: 65
Overview: You Gotta Stay Happy is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by H.C. Potter and starring Joan Fontaine, James Stewart and Eddie Albert. It was distributed by Universal-International and produced ...Release date: 28 October 1948Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: H.C. Potter, Walter LantzProducer: William Dozier, Karl TunbergWriter: Karl Tunberg, Robert CarsonA spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures. 0
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The Judge Steps Out
1949 film by Boris Ingster
Role: MargaretAge at the time: 66
Overview: The Judge Steps Out is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Boris Ingster and written by Ingster and Alexander Knox. The film stars Knox and Ann Sothern, along with George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett, F ...Release date: 2 June 1949Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Boris IngsterProducer: Michael Kraike, Sid RogellWriter: Boris Ingster, Alexander KnoxA Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. He gets a job as a... 0
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The Black Arrow
1948 film by Gordon DouglasRole: NunAge at the time: 65
Overview: The Black Arrow is a 1948 American adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Louis Hayward and Janet Blair. It is an adaptation of the 1888 novel of the same title by Robert Louis Stevenson ...Release date: 18 March 1948Genre: Adventure, Action, History, RomanceDirector: Gordon DouglasProducer: Richard Schayer, Tom SellerYong nobleman Richard Shelton returns from the War of the Roses to find his father murdered, a fugitive family friend blamed, and his uncle occupying his ... 0
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Half-Wits Holiday
1947 film by Jules WhiteRole: Countess ShpritzvasserAge at the time: 64
Overview: Half-Wits Holiday is a 1947 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard in his final starring role). It is the ...Release date: 9 January 1947Genre: Short, ComedyDirector: Jules WhiteProducer: Jules WhiteWriter: Zion MyersA professor seeks to prove his theories about environment versus heredity by turning three boorish plumbers into gentlemen. 0
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Cigarette Girl
1947 film directed by Gunther von FritschRole: Mrs. HalsteadAge at the time: 64
Overview: Cigarette Girl is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Gunther von Fritsch to a story by Edward Huebsch and screenplay by Henry K. Moritz. The film stars Leslie Brooks, Jimmy Lloyd, Joan Barton ...Release date: 13 February 1947Genre: Musical, Comedy, Music, RomanceDirector: Gunther von FritschProducer: William BloomWriter: Edward Huebsch, Henry K. Moritz 0
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