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Florence Bates
Actor
Died January 31, 1954 (65 years)
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Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.
Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles.
In the mid-1930s, Bates auditioned for and won the role of Miss Bates in a Pasadena Playhouse adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. When she decided to continue working with the theatre group, she changed her professional name to that of the first character she played on stage. In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, the vain dowager Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940).
Bates appeared in more than sixty films over the course of the next thirteen years. Among her cinema credits are Kitty Foyle, Love Crazy, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, Heaven Can Wait, Lullaby of Broadway, Mister Big, Since You Went Away, Kismet, Saratoga Trunk, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Winter Meeting, I Remember Mama, Portrait of Jennie, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, and Les Misérables. In television, Bates had a regular role on The Hank McCune Show and made guest appearances on I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, I Married Joan and Our Miss Brooks.
Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.
Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles.
In the mid-1930s, Bates auditioned for and won the role of Miss Bates in a Pasadena Playhouse adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. When she decided to continue working with the theatre group, she changed her professional name to that of the first character she played on stage. In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, the vain dowager Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940).
Bates appeared in more than sixty films over the course of the next thirteen years. Among her cinema credits are Kitty Foyle, Love Crazy, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, Heaven Can Wait, Lullaby of Broadway, Mister Big, Since You Went Away, Kismet, Saratoga Trunk, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Winter Meeting, I Remember Mama, Portrait of Jennie, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, and Les Misérables. In television, Bates had a regular role on The Hank McCune Show and made guest appearances on I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, I Married Joan and Our Miss Brooks.
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Filmography
| 1953 | Paris Model · as Nora Sullivan |
| 1953 | Main Street to Broadway · as Mrs. Bessmer In Fantasy Sequence |
| 1953 | Private Secretary (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1952 | My Hero (1952) (TV Series) · as Aunt Polly |
| 1952 | I Married Joan (TV Series) · as Ballet Teacher |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV Series) · as Mrs. Howard |
| 1952 | Our Miss Brooks (TV Series) · as Mrs. Carney |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Ottilie |
| 1952 | Les Miserables · as Madame Bonnet |
| 1952 | My Little Margie (TV Series) · as Lady Franklin |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story · as Sadie |
| 1951 | Lullaby of Broadway · as Mrs. Anna Hubbell |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy (TV Series) · as Mrs. Pettebone |
| 1951 | The Tall Target · as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop |
| 1950 | The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Mceveety |
| 1950 | Dick Tracy (1950) (TV Series) · as Mrs. Frotheringham |
| 1950 | County Fair · as Nora 'ma' Ryan |
| 1950 | The Second Woman · as Amelia Foster |
| 1949 | On the Town · as Madame Dilyovska |
| 1949 | The Girl from Jones Beach · as Miss Emma Shoemaker |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives · as Mrs. Manleigh |
| 1948 | The Judge Steps Out · as Chita |
| 1948 | Portrait of Jennie · as Mrs. Jekes |
| 1948 | My Dear Secretary · as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the Landlady) |
| 1948 | Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven · as Mandy |
| 1948 | River Lady · as Ma Dunnegan |
| 1948 | Winter Meeting · as Mrs. Castle |
| 1948 | I Remember Mama · as Florence Dana Moorhead |
| 1948 | The Inside Story · as Geraldine Atherton |
| 1947 | Desire Me · as Mrs.lannie |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · as Mrs. Griswold |
| 1947 | Love and Learn · as Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady |
| 1947 | The Brasher Doubloon · as Mrs. Murdock |
| 1946 | The Time, the Place and the Girl · as Mme. Lucia Cassel |
| 1946 | The Man I Love · as Mrs. Thorpe |
| 1946 | Cluny Brown · as Dowager At Ames's Party |
| 1946 | Claudia and David · as Nancy Riddle |
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid · as Rose |
| 1946 | Whistle Stop · as Molly Veech |
| 1945 | San Antonio · as Henrietta |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk · as Sophie Bellop |
| 1945 | Out of This World · as Harriet Pringle |
| 1945 | Tonight and Every Night · as May Tolliver |
| 1944 | Belle of the Yukon · as Viola Chase |
| 1944 | Kismet · as Karsha |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away · as Hungry Woman On Train |
| 1944 | The Mask of Dimitrios · as Madame Elise Chavez |
| 1943 | His Butler's Sister · as Lady Sloughberry |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait · as Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky · as Mrs. Van Every |
| 1943 | Mister Big · as Mrs. Mary Davis |
| 1943 | Slightly Dangerous · as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered · as Gypsy Woman |
| 1942 | My Heart Belongs to Daddy · as Mrs. Saunders |
| 1942 | The Moon and Sixpence · as Tiare Johnson |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing · as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip |
| 1942 | The Tuttles of Tahiti · as Emily |
| 1942 | Mexican Spitfire at Sea · as Mrs. Baldwin |
| 1941 | Kathleen · as Woman Customer At Shoner's Store |
| 1941 | The Chocolate Soldier · as Madame Helene |
| 1941 | |
| 1941 | Love Crazy · as Mrs. Cooper |
| 1941 | Strange Alibi · as Katie |
| 1941 | The Devil and Miss Jones · as Store Shopper |
| 1940 | Kitty Foyle · as Customer |
| 1940 | Hudson's Bay · as Duchess |
| 1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo · as Countess Mathilde Von Braun |
| 1940 | Calling All Husbands · as Emmie Trippe |
| 1940 | Rebecca · as Edythe Van Hopper |