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.

Filmes indisponível de Florence Bates

Rebecca

Edythe Van Hopper

Filme 1940

The Brasher Doubloon

Mrs. Murdock

Filme 1947

Belle of Old Mexico

Nellie Chatfield

Filme 1950

Main Street to Broadway

Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence

Filme 1953

Tahiti Nights

Queen Liliha

Filme 1944

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Mrs. Griswold

Filme 1947

The Mask of Dimitrios

Madame Elise Chavez

Filme 1944

Lullaby of Broadway

Mrs. Anna Hubbell

Filme 1951

Winter Meeting

Mrs. Castle

Filme 1948

Tonight and Every Night

May Tolliver

Filme 1945

Kismet

Karsha

Filme 1944

The Second Woman

Amelia Foster

Filme 1950

Belle of the Yukon

Viola Chase

Filme 1944

A Letter to Three Wives

Mrs. Manleigh

Filme 1949

San Antonio

Henrietta

Filme 1945

The Son of Monte Cristo

Countess Mathilde Von Braun

Filme 1940

Strange Alibi

Katie

Filme 1941

The Moon and Sixpence

Tiare Johnson

Filme 1942

Whistle Stop

Molly Veech

Filme 1946

The Chocolate Soldier

Madame Helene

Filme 1941

River Lady

Ma Dunnegan

Filme 1948

Les Miserables

Madame Bonnet

Filme 1952

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Emily

Filme 1942

The Inside Story

Geraldine Atherton

Filme 1948

Slightly Dangerous

Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke

Filme 1943

We Were Dancing

Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip

Filme 1942

Mister Big

Mrs. Mary Davis

Filme 1943

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Mrs. Baldwin

Filme 1942

Claudia and David

Nancy Riddle

Filme 1946

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Mandy

Filme 1948

Out of This World

Harriet Pringle

Filme 1945

Calling All Husbands

Emmie Trippe

Filme 1940

Heaven Can Wait

Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)

Filme 1943

The Girl from Jones Beach

Miss Emma Shoemaker

Filme 1949

The San Francisco Story

Sadie

Filme 1952

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Mrs. Saunders

Filme 1942

They Got Me Covered

Gypsy Woman

Filme 1943

Kitty Foyle

Customer

Filme 1940

Saratoga Trunk

Sophie Bellop

Filme 1945

The Time, The Place and The Girl

Mme. Lucia Cassel

Filme 1946

Love and Learn

Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady

Filme 1947

His Butler's Sister

Lady Sloughberry

Filme 1943

County Fair

Nora 'Ma' Ryan

Filme 1950

Father Takes the Air

Minerva Bobbin

Filme 1951

Havana Rose

Mrs. Fillmore

Filme 1951

Série de TV indisponível de Florence Bates

Four Star Playhouse

Ottilie

Tv 1952

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Mrs. Van Hopper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tv 1955

I Love Lucy

Mrs. Pettebone

Tv 1951

Dick Tracy

Mrs. Frothingham

Tv 1950