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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Paris Model
Character:Nora Sullivan
Release Date:10/11/1953
Main Street to Broadway
Character:Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Release Date:12/10/1953
Les Miserables
Character:Madame Bonnet
Release Date:14/08/1952
The San Francisco Story
Character:Sadie
Release Date:11/05/1952
Havana Rose
Character:Mrs. Fillmore
Release Date:15/09/1951
The Tall Target
Character:Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Release Date:17/08/1951
Father Takes the Air
Character:Minerva Bobbin
Release Date:17/06/1951
Lullaby of Broadway
Character:Mrs. Anna Hubbell
Release Date:26/03/1951
County Fair
Character:Nora 'Ma' Ryan
Release Date:30/07/1950
The Second Woman
Character:Amelia Foster
Release Date:07/07/1950
Belle of Old Mexico
Character:Nellie Chatfield
Release Date:01/03/1950
On the Town
Character:Madame Dilyovska
Release Date:08/12/1949
The Girl from Jones Beach
Character:Miss Emma Shoemaker
Release Date:16/07/1949
Portrait of Jennie
Character:Mrs. Jekes
Release Date:25/12/1948
A Letter to Three Wives
Character:Mrs. Manleigh
Release Date:01/12/1948
My Dear Secretary
Character:Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Release Date:05/11/1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character:Mandy
Release Date:16/07/1948
River Lady
Character:Ma Dunnegan
Release Date:20/05/1948
Winter Meeting
Character:Mrs. Castle
Release Date:07/04/1948
The Inside Story
Character:Geraldine Atherton
Release Date:14/03/1948
I Remember Mama
Character:Florence Dana Moorhead
Release Date:09/03/1948
The Judge Steps Out
Character:Chita
Release Date:15/12/1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character:Irmagarde Griswold
Release Date:01/09/1947
Love and Learn
Character:Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
Release Date:02/05/1947
The Brasher Doubloon
Character:Mrs. Murdock
Release Date:06/02/1947
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Character:Mme. Lucia Cassel
Release Date:26/12/1946
The Man I Love
Character:Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
Release Date:26/12/1946
Cluny Brown
Character:Dowager at Ames's Party
Release Date:02/06/1946
Claudia and David
Character:Nancy Riddle
Release Date:25/02/1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character:Rose
Release Date:15/02/1946
Whistle Stop
Character:Molly Veech
Release Date:25/01/1946
San Antonio
Character:Henrietta
Release Date:29/12/1945
Saratoga Trunk
Character:Sophie Bellop
Release Date:21/11/1945
Out of This World
Character:Harriet Pringle
Release Date:13/07/1945
Tonight and Every Night
Character:May Tolliver
Release Date:09/01/1945
Tahiti Nights
Character:Queen Liliha
Release Date:28/12/1944
Belle of the Yukon
Character:Viola Chase
Release Date:27/12/1944
Kismet
Character:Karsha
Release Date:01/10/1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
Character:Madame Elise Chavez
Release Date:23/06/1944
His Butler's Sister
Character:Lady Sloughberry
Release Date:26/11/1943
Heaven Can Wait
Character:Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
Release Date:05/08/1943
Mr. Lucky
Character:Mrs. Van Every
Release Date:01/07/1943
Mister Big
Character:Mrs. Mary Davis
Release Date:28/05/1943
Slightly Dangerous
Character:Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
Release Date:01/04/1943
They Got Me Covered
Character:Gypsy Woman
Release Date:04/03/1943
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Character:Mrs. Saunders
Release Date:07/11/1942
The Moon and Sixpence
Character:Tiare Johnson
Release Date:27/10/1942
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Character:Emily
Release Date:01/05/1942
We Were Dancing
Character:Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
Release Date:30/04/1942
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character:Mrs. Baldwin
Release Date:13/03/1942
The Chocolate Soldier
Character:Madame Helene
Release Date:01/11/1941
Love Crazy
Character:Mrs. Cooper
Release Date:23/05/1941
Strange Alibi
Character:Katie
Release Date:19/04/1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
Character:Store Shopper
Release Date:11/04/1941
Road Show
Character:Mrs. Newton
Release Date:18/02/1941
Kitty Foyle
Character:Customer
Release Date:27/12/1940
Hudson's Bay
Character:Duchess (scenes deleted)
Release Date:24/12/1940
The Son of Monte Cristo
Character:Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Release Date:05/12/1940
Calling All Husbands
Character:Emmie Trippe
Release Date:07/09/1940
Rebecca
Character:Edythe Van Hopper
Release Date:23/03/1940
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