Florence Bates
Acting
Born 1888-04-13
Died 1954-01-31
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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I Love Lucy
Four Star Playhouse
Rebecca
Dick Tracy
On the Town
Portrait of Jennie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mr. Lucky
Kitty Foyle
I Remember Mama
Cluny Brown
A Letter to Three Wives
The Mask of Dimitrios
Saratoga Trunk
Heaven Can Wait
Whistle Stop
Paris Model
Les Miserables
The Tall Target
The Man I Love
The Second Woman
Kismet
San Antonio
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Main Street to Broadway
Slightly Dangerous
Winter Meeting
The Son of Monte Cristo
Havana Rose
The Judge Steps Out
My Dear Secretary
The Moon and Sixpence
They Got Me Covered
Lullaby of Broadway
Claudia and David
Belle of the Yukon
The Devil and Miss Jones
Love Crazy
The Brasher Doubloon
We Were Dancing
The Inside Story
Hudson's Bay
Strange Alibi
Tonight and Every Night
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
The Tuttles of Tahiti
River Lady
Road Show
Out of This World
Mister Big
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Calling All Husbands
County Fair
Father Takes the Air
His Butler's Sister
The Chocolate Soldier
The Girl from Jones Beach
The San Francisco Story
Love and Learn
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