Florence Lake
Acting
Born 1904-11-27
Died 1980-04-11
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.
Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in "dumb" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Claverton telephone operator in Lassie. Lake played the role for the entire ten year "farm seasons" of the show (1954–1964), thus becoming the Lassie player with the longest tour of duty on the series.
She played the role of Mama Angel in a 1957 episode of the The Lone Ranger TV series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw". She also appeared in the first color episode of the TV series Superman in 1957 as a cave woman.
In her later years, Lake appeared as Elvira Norton on an episode of Dragnet entitled "Frauds". She also played a blind date for the character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, "Lou's First Date". Her last roles were in the TV series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
Lassie
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Adam-12
Emergency!
The Red Skelton Show
The Rockford Files
Petticoat Junction
Police Woman
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Here's Lucy
The Doris Day Show
Lock-Up
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Nichols
Mr. Terrific
Stagecoach
Banyon
Quality Street
Union Pacific
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Westward Passage
The Day of the Locust
The Big Mouth
Crash Dive
The Girl Most Likely To...
Bachelor Mother
Savage Intruder
Fifth Avenue Girl
Only Yesterday
What Fur
Romance
Radio Rampage
When Tomorrow Comes
Dummy Ache
Banyon
Little Giant
I Met My Love Again
Motor Maniacs
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Ladies of the Jury
Live Again, Die Again
Four Jacks and a Jill
Welcome to Arrow Beach
Muss 'em Up
Next Time I Marry
She Couldn't Say No
Gasoloons
Fish Feathers
Fargo
Long Way Home
The Desperado
Running Hollywood
Poisoned Ivory
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Pacific Liner
Night World
To Mary - with Love
Law of the Underworld
The Drums of Jeopardy
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