Florence Bates
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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.
Known for
Credits
Rebecca (1940)
as Edythe Van Hopper
Kitty Foyle (1940)
as Customer
On the Town (1949)
as Madame Dilyovska
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
as Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
as Mrs. Van Every
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
as Rose
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
as Mrs. Manleigh
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Mrs. Jekes
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
as Mrs. Griswold
Whistle Stop (1946)
as Molly Veech
San Antonio (1945)
as Henrietta
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
as Madame Elise Chavez
Les Miserables (1952)
as Madame Bonnet
Love Crazy (1941)
as Mrs. Cooper
The Man I Love (1946)
as Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
I Remember Mama (1948)
as Florence Dana Moorhead
Cluny Brown (1946)
as Dowager at Ames's Party
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
as Store Shopper
Paris Model (1953)
as Nora Sullivan
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
as Sophie Bellop
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
as Viola Chase
Kismet (1944)
as Karsha
Hudson's Bay (1940)
as Duchess (scenes deleted)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Strange Alibi (1941)
as Katie
River Lady (1948)
as Ma Dunnegan
My Dear Secretary (1948)
as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Havana Rose (1951)
as Mrs. Fillmore
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
The Second Woman (1950)
as Amelia Foster
Claudia and David (1946)
as Nancy Riddle
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
as Mrs. Baldwin
The Tall Target (1951)
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
as Miss Emma Shoemaker
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
as Tiare Johnson
The Time, The Place and The Girl (1946)
as Mme. Lucia Cassel
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
as May Tolliver
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
as Emily
Mister Big (1943)
as Mrs. Mary Davis
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
The San Francisco Story (1952)
as Sadie
Love and Learn (1947)
as Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
Out of This World (1945)
as Harriet Pringle
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
as Mrs. Murdock
The Inside Story (1948)
as Geraldine Atherton
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
as Mandy
Winter Meeting (1948)
as Mrs. Castle
His Butler's Sister (1943)
as Lady Sloughberry
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
as Mrs. Saunders
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
as Madame Helene
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Chita
Road Show (1941)
as Mrs. Newton
They Got Me Covered (1943)
as Gypsy Woman
We Were Dancing (1942)
as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
County Fair (1950)
as Nora 'Ma' Ryan
Calling All Husbands (1940)
as Emmie Trippe
Belle of Old Mexico (1950)
as Nellie Chatfield
Father Takes the Air (1951)
as Minerva Bobbin
Tahiti Nights (1944)
as Queen Liliha