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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 🎬 Kitty Foyle Customer 🎬 On the Town Madame Dilyovska 🎬 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 🎬 Heaven Can Wait Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) 🎬 Paris Model Nora Sullivan 🎬 Out of This World Harriet Pringle 🎬 Mister Big Mrs. Mary Davis 🎬 The Tall Target Mrs. Charlotte Alsop 🎬 The Man I Love Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited) 🎬 Kismet Karsha 🎬 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 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 🎬 The Inside Story Geraldine Atherton 🎬 Saratoga Trunk Sophie Bellop 🎬 The Second Woman Amelia Foster 🎬 They Got Me Covered Gypsy Woman 🎬 Belle of Old Mexico Nellie Chatfield 🎬 The Moon and Sixpence Tiare Johnson 🎬 Belle of the Yukon Viola Chase 🎬 Claudia and David Nancy Riddle 🎬 Slightly Dangerous Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke 🎬 Mexican Spitfire at Sea Mrs. Baldwin 🎬 Lullaby of Broadway Mrs. Anna Hubbell 🎬 My Heart Belongs to Daddy Mrs. Saunders 🎬 The Girl from Jones Beach Miss Emma Shoemaker 🎬 Havana Rose Mrs. Fillmore 🎬 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven Mandy 🎬 Hudson's Bay Duchess (scenes deleted) 🎬 We Were Dancing Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip 🎬 Love and Learn Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady 🎬 Winter Meeting Mrs. Castle 🎬 Road Show Mrs. Newton 🎬 Father Takes the Air Minerva Bobbin 🎬 Tahiti Nights Queen Liliha

🎭 Filmography — as actor/actress

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