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Florence Bates

Florence Bates

As actor

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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 Playho…

As actor

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🎬 Rebecca ★ 8.0 · Edythe Van Hopper 🎬 Portrait of Jennie Mrs. Jekes 🎬 Tonight and Every Night May Tolliver 🎬 On the Town Madame Dilyovska 🎬 Kitty Foyle Customer 🎬 Cluny Brown Dowager at Ames's Party 🎬 Mr. Lucky Mrs. Van Every 🎬 A Letter to Three Wives Mrs. Manleigh 🎬 Love Crazy Mrs. Cooper 🎬 The Devil and Miss Jones Store Shopper 🎬 The Son of Monte Cristo Countess Mathilde Von Braun 🎬 San Antonio Henrietta 🎬 Paris Model Nora Sullivan 🎬 Heaven Can Wait Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) 🎬 Out of This World Harriet Pringle 🎬 Mister Big Mrs. Mary Davis 🎬 Kismet Karsha 🎬 The Tall Target Mrs. Charlotte Alsop 🎬 The Man I Love Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited) 🎬 The Time, The Place and The Girl Mme. Lucia Cassel 🎬 My Dear Secretary Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) 🎬 The Brasher Doubloon Mrs. Murdock 🎬 The Diary of a Chambermaid Rose 🎬 The Inside Story Geraldine Atherton 🎬 The Mask of Dimitrios Madame Elise Chavez 🎬 His Butler's Sister Lady Sloughberry 🎬 River Lady Ma Dunnegan 🎬 The Tuttles of Tahiti Emily 🎬 The San Francisco Story Sadie 🎬 Saratoga Trunk Sophie Bellop 🎬 The Second Woman Amelia Foster 🎬 The Moon and Sixpence Tiare Johnson 🎬 They Got Me Covered Gypsy Woman 🎬 Belle of the Yukon Viola Chase 🎬 Belle of Old Mexico Nellie Chatfield 🎬 Slightly Dangerous Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke 🎬 Claudia and David Nancy Riddle 🎬 My Heart Belongs to Daddy Mrs. Saunders 🎬 Mexican Spitfire at Sea Mrs. Baldwin 🎬 The Girl from Jones Beach Miss Emma Shoemaker 🎬 Lullaby of Broadway Mrs. Anna Hubbell 🎬 Havana Rose Mrs. Fillmore 🎬 Hudson's Bay Duchess (scenes deleted) 🎬 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven Mandy 🎬 We Were Dancing Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip 🎬 Winter Meeting Mrs. Castle 🎬 Love and Learn Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady 🎬 Father Takes the Air Minerva Bobbin 🎬 Tahiti Nights Queen Liliha 🎬 Les Miserables Madame Bonnet 🎬 Road Show Mrs. Newton

🎭 Filmography — as actor/actress

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📺 I Love Lucy Series · 1951 📺 Four Star Playhouse Series · 1952 🎬 Rebecca Movie · 1940 🎬 Paris Model Movie · 1953 📺 Dick Tracy Series · 1950 🎬 Whistle Stop Movie · 1946 🎬 Kitty Foyle Movie · 1940 🎬 Mr. Lucky Movie · 1943 🎬 Portrait of Jennie Movie · 1948 🎬 On the Town Movie · 1949 🎬 Havana Rose Movie · 1951 🎬 Lullaby of Broadway Movie · 1951 🎬 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Movie · 1947 🎬 Claudia and David Movie · 1946 🎬 The Diary of a Chambermaid Movie · 1946 🎬 A Letter to Three Wives Movie · 1949 🎬 Heaven Can Wait Movie · 1943 🎬 The Mask of Dimitrios Movie · 1944 🎬 Tonight and Every Night Movie · 1945 🎬 The Man I Love Movie · 1946 🎬 Love Crazy Movie · 1941 🎬 The Devil and Miss Jones Movie · 1941 🎬 Cluny Brown Movie · 1946 🎬 They Got Me Covered Movie · 1943