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Florence Bates Died at age: 65

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Florence Bates

Date of Birth:

Apr 14, 1888

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 31, 1954

Biography of

Florence Bates

    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.

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Filmography of

Florence Bates

Found 58 Movies in total

Paris Model

Nora Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1953

Main Street to Broadway

Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence ( Actor )

... 1953

Les Miserables

Madame Bonnet ( Actor )

... 1952

... 1952

Havana Rose

Mrs. Fillmore ( Actor )

... 1951

The Tall Target

Mrs. Charlotte Alsop ( Actor )

... 1951

Father Takes the Air

Minerva Bobbin ( Actor )

... 1951

Lullaby of Broadway

Mrs. Anna Hubbell ( Actor )

... 1951

County Fair

Nora 'Ma' Ryan ( Actor )

... 1950

The Second Woman

Amelia Foster ( Actor )

... 1950

Belle of Old Mexico

Nellie Chatfield ( Actor )

... 1950

On the Town

Madame Dilyovska ( Actor )

... 1949

The Girl from Jones Beach

Miss Emma Shoemaker ( Actor )

... 1949

A Letter to Three Wives

Mrs. Manleigh ( Actor )

... 1949

Portrait of Jennie

Mrs. Jekes ( Actor )

... 1948

My Dear Secretary

Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1948

River Lady

Ma Dunnegan ( Actor )

... 1948

Winter Meeting

Mrs. Castle ( Actor )

... 1948

The Inside Story

Geraldine Atherton ( Actor )

... 1948

I Remember Mama

Florence Dana Moorhead ( Actor )

... 1948

The Judge Steps Out

Chita ( Actor )

... 1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Mrs. Griswold ( Actor )

... 1947

Love and Learn

Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady ( Actor )

... 1947

The Brasher Doubloon

Mrs. Murdock ( Actor )

... 1947

The Time, The Place and The Girl

Mme. Lucia Cassel ( Actor )

... 1946

Cluny Brown

Dowager at Ames's Party ( Actor )

... 1946

Claudia and David

Nancy Riddle ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1946

Whistle Stop

Molly Veech ( Actor )

... 1946

San Antonio

Henrietta ( Actor )

... 1945

Saratoga Trunk

Sophie Bellop ( Actor )

... 1945

Out of This World

Harriet Pringle ( Actor )

... 1945

Tonight and Every Night

May Tolliver ( Actor )

... 1945

Tahiti Nights

Queen Liliha ( Actor )

... 1944

Belle of the Yukon

Viola Chase ( Actor )

... 1944

Kismet

Karsha ( Actor )

... 1944

The Mask of Dimitrios

Madame Elise Chavez ( Actor )

... 1944

His Butler's Sister

Lady Sloughberry ( Actor )

... 1943

Heaven Can Wait

Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Mr. Lucky

Mrs. Van Every ( Actor )

... 1943

Mister Big

Mrs. Mary Davis ( Actor )

... 1943

Slightly Dangerous

Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke ( Actor )

... 1943

They Got Me Covered

Gypsy Woman ( Actor )

... 1943

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Mrs. Saunders ( Actor )

... 1942

The Moon and Sixpence

Tiare Johnson ( Actor )

... 1942

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Emily ( Actor )

... 1942

We Were Dancing

Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip ( Actor )

... 1942

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Mrs. Baldwin ( Actor )

... 1942

The Chocolate Soldier

Madame Helene ( Actor )

... 1941

Love Crazy

Mrs. Cooper ( Actor )

... 1941

Strange Alibi

Katie ( Actor )

... 1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

Store Shopper ( Actor )

... 1941

Road Show

Mrs. Newton ( Actor )

... 1941

Kitty Foyle

Customer ( Actor )

... 1940

The Son of Monte Cristo

Countess Mathilde Von Braun ( Actor )

... 1940

Calling All Husbands

Emmie Trippe ( Actor )

... 1940

Rebecca

Edythe Van Hopper ( Actor )

... 1940