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Florence Bates
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Florence Bates
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1888-04-13,San Antonio, Texas, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Filmography

7.9

Rebecca
1940-03-23

The Brasher Doubloon

5.974

The Brasher Doubloon
1947-02-06

6.808

Love Crazy
1941-05-23

Belle of Old Mexico

9

Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01

Main Street to Broadway

7.333

Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12

The Tall Target

6.878

The Tall Target
1951-08-17

9

Tahiti Nights
1944-12-28

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

6.8

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01

The Mask of Dimitrios

7

The Mask of Dimitrios
1944-06-23

Lullaby of Broadway

5.972

Lullaby of Broadway
1951-03-26

I Remember Mama

7.223

I Remember Mama
1948-03-09

6.625

Winter Meeting
1948-04-07

Tonight and Every Night

5.548

Tonight and Every Night
1945-01-09

5.472

Kismet
1944-10-01

The Devil and Miss Jones

7.664

The Devil and Miss Jones
1941-04-11

The Second Woman

5.586

The Second Woman
1950-07-07

The Diary of a Chambermaid

6.231

The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15

Belle of the Yukon

5.778

Belle of the Yukon
1944-12-27

A Letter to Three Wives

7.199

A Letter to Three Wives
1949-01-20

6.957

Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01

6.1

San Antonio
1945-12-29

The Son of Monte Cristo

6.154

The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05

7.167

Strange Alibi
1941-04-19

7.2

Cluny Brown
1946-06-02

The Moon and Sixpence

6.289

The Moon and Sixpence
1942-10-27

4.4

Whistle Stop
1946-01-25

The Chocolate Soldier

6.667

The Chocolate Soldier
1941-11-01

5.8

River Lady
1948-05-20

5.528

Les Miserables
1952-08-14

The Tuttles of Tahiti

5.714

The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942-05-01

5.591

Road Show
1941-02-18

The Inside Story

6.571

The Inside Story
1948-03-14

Slightly Dangerous

6

Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01

We Were Dancing

4.333

We Were Dancing
1942-04-30

3.833

Mister Big
1943-05-28

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

4.4

Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942-03-13

3.6

Paris Model
1953-11-10

Claudia and David

7.5

Claudia and David
1946-02-25

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

5.75

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16

Out of This World

8

Out of This World
1945-07-13

The Judge Steps Out

7

The Judge Steps Out
1947-12-15

Calling All Husbands

8

Calling All Husbands
1940-09-07

My Dear Secretary

6.096

My Dear Secretary
1948-11-05

Heaven Can Wait

6.9

Heaven Can Wait
1943-08-05

The Girl from Jones Beach

5.5

The Girl from Jones Beach
1949-07-16

The San Francisco Story

4.875

The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

5

My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942-11-07

They Got Me Covered

6.2

They Got Me Covered
1943-03-04

6.6

Kitty Foyle
1940-12-27

6.1

Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21

The Time, The Place and The Girl

5.667

The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946-12-26

6.981

On the Town
1949-12-08

6.667

Love and Learn
1947-05-02

His Butler's Sister

7.2

His Butler's Sister
1943-11-26

8

County Fair
1950-07-30

Portrait of Jennie

7.2

Portrait of Jennie
1948-12-25

Father Takes the Air

6.5

Father Takes the Air
1951-06-17

7

Havana Rose
1951-09-15

6.1

The Man I Love
1946-12-26

6.083

Hudson's Bay
1940-12-24

Four Star Playhouse

6.818

Four Star Playhouse
1952-09-25

7.926

I Love Lucy
1951-10-15

8

Dick Tracy
1950-09-11