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