Cast: Mary Forbes

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Mary Forbes. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Awful Truth

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Ralph Bellamy · Alexander D'Arcy

Synopsis Jerry and Lucy Warriner lead madcap screwball high society lives in New York City. Despite being very happy, they start to doubt each other's fidelity. Finally they decide to divorce. Lucy wins custody of the dog but Jerry secures visitation...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Les misérables

1935 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character and great strength, is convicted of stealing a loaf of bread, an act that sets in motion a lifetime of misery for Valjean, as he is pursued by the uncompromising and brutal lawman...

7.0

240 votes

7.0

240 votes

A Farewell to Arms

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Helen Hayes · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Mary Philips

Synopsis A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Bombshell

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · Lee Tracy · Frank Morgan · Franchot Tone

Synopsis Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories. Makes...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Holiday

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Ann Harding · Mary Astor · Edward Everett Horton · Robert Ames

Synopsis The story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

Always Goodbye

1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Ian Hunter · Cesar Romero

Synopsis Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born.

6.1

34 votes

6.1

34 votes

Terror by Night

1946 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Alan Mowbray · Renee Godfrey

Synopsis Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly...

6.1

745 votes

6.1

745 votes

Another Dawn

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Kay Francis · Errol Flynn · Ian Hunter · Frieda Inescort

Synopsis Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following...

6.0

44 votes

6.0

44 votes

The Thirteenth Chair

1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Conrad Nagel · Leila Hyams · Margaret Wycherly · Helene Millard

Synopsis Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a...

5.8

81 votes

5.8

81 votes

Wedding Present

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Joan Bennett · Cary Grant · George Bancroft · Conrad Nagel

Synopsis Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are great reporters on a Chicgo tabloid and romantically involved as well. Despite their skills in obtaining great scoops, they are often irresponsible and immature causing their city editor to resign over their shenanigans. The...

5.8

58 votes

5.8

58 votes

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Everybody Sing

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Allan Jones · Judy Garland · Fannie Brice · Reginald Owen

Synopsis Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, is the center of trouble at her exclusive private and very conservative school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a Jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ensues as she returns home...

Not rated

Not rated

The Man Who Came Back

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Peter Gawthorne · Charles Farrell · Leslie Fenton · Mary Forbes

Synopsis The popular screen romantic team of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell shocked and surprised their fans in the ultra-melodramatic The Man Who Came Back. Based on a 1916 stage success, the film atypically casts Gaynor as Angie, a San Francisco...

Not rated

Not rated

The Great Impersonation

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Evelyn Ankers · Aubrey Mather · Edward Norris

Synopsis An unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his exact double, Sir Edward Dominey, with whom von Ragenstein went...

Not rated

Not rated

Earl Carroll Vanities

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Constance Moore · Eve Arden · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Royalty from a small European principality come to New York City to arrange for a loan to prop up their country's troubled finances. While the queen mother attends to the negotiations, Princess Drina strikes up a friendship with Tex Donnelly,...

Not rated

Not rated

Just Around the Corner

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Shirley Temple · Joan Davis · Charles Farrell · Amanda Duff

Synopsis The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.

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Not rated

Suspicion (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Not rated

Not rated

Women in Bondage

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast Gail Patrick · Nancy Kelly · William Henry · Tala Birell

Synopsis Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Toni Hall is prevented from marrying her sweetheart. Both women speak out...

Not rated

Not rated

Women of Glamour

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Wiles

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Virginia Bruce · Reginald Denny · Pert Kelton

Synopsis The film is about an artist from a wealthy family who hires a "party girl" as his model. As they get to know each other, the girl begins to regret her past, and the two fall in love, but they...

Not rated

Not rated