From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFlorence 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 Austens 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.
Edythe Van Hopper
Film 1940
Mrs. Murdock
Film 1947
Nellie Chatfield
Film 1950
Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Film 1953
Queen Liliha
Film 1944
Mrs. Griswold
Film 1947
Madame Elise Chavez
Film 1944
Mrs. Anna Hubbell
Film 1951
Mrs. Castle
Film 1948
May Tolliver
Film 1945
Karsha
Film 1944
Amelia Foster
Film 1950
Viola Chase
Film 1944
Mrs. Manleigh
Film 1949
Henrietta
Film 1945
Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Film 1940
Katie
Film 1941
Tiare Johnson
Film 1942
Molly Veech
Film 1946
Madame Helene
Film 1941
Ma Dunnegan
Film 1948
Madame Bonnet
Film 1952
Emily
Film 1942
Geraldine Atherton
Film 1948
Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
Film 1943
Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
Film 1942
Mrs. Mary Davis
Film 1943
Mrs. Baldwin
Film 1942
Nancy Riddle
Film 1946
Mandy
Film 1948
Harriet Pringle
Film 1945
Emmie Trippe
Film 1940
Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
Film 1943
Miss Emma Shoemaker
Film 1949
Sadie
Film 1952
Mrs. Saunders
Film 1942
Gypsy Woman
Film 1943
Customer
Film 1940
Sophie Bellop
Film 1945
Mme. Lucia Cassel
Film 1946
Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
Film 1947
Lady Sloughberry
Film 1943
Nora 'Ma' Ryan
Film 1950
Minerva Bobbin
Film 1951
Mrs. Fillmore
Film 1951
Ottilie
Tv 1952
Mrs. Van Hopper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tv 1955
Mrs. Pettebone
Tv 1951
Mrs. Frothingham
Tv 1950