Florence Bates
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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 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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Películas (60)
Paris Model
1953 · Nora Sullivan
Main Street to Broadway
1953 · Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Les Miserables
1952 · Madame Bonnet
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Sadie
Havana Rose
1951 · Mrs. Fillmore
The Tall Target
1951 · Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Father Takes the Air
1951 · Minerva Bobbin
Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · Mrs. Anna Hubbell
County Fair
1950 · Nora 'Ma' Ryan
The Second Woman
1950 · Amelia Foster
Belle of Old Mexico
1950 · Nellie Chatfield
On the Town
1949 · Madame Dilyovska
The Girl from Jones Beach
1949 · Miss Emma Shoemaker
A Letter to Three Wives
1949 · Mrs. Manleigh
Portrait of Jennie
1948 · Mrs. Jekes
My Dear Secretary
1948 · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Mandy
River Lady
1948 · Ma Dunnegan
Winter Meeting
1948 · Mrs. Castle
The Inside Story
1948 · Geraldine Atherton
I Remember Mama
1948 · Florence Dana Moorhead
The Judge Steps Out
1947 · Chita
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Mrs. Griswold
Love and Learn
1947 · Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
The Brasher Doubloon
1947 · Mrs. Murdock
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946 · Mme. Lucia Cassel
The Man I Love
1946 · Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
Cluny Brown
1946 · Dowager at Ames's Party
Claudia and David
1946 · Nancy Riddle
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Rose
Whistle Stop
1946 · Molly Veech
San Antonio
1945 · Henrietta
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · Sophie Bellop
Out of This World
1945 · Harriet Pringle
Tonight and Every Night
1945 · May Tolliver
Tahiti Nights
1944 · Queen Liliha
Belle of the Yukon
1944 · Viola Chase
Kismet
1944 · Karsha
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · Madame Elise Chavez
His Butler's Sister
1943 · Lady Sloughberry
Heaven Can Wait
1943 · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
1943 · Mrs. Van Every
Mister Big
1943 · Mrs. Mary Davis
Slightly Dangerous
1943 · Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
They Got Me Covered
1943 · Gypsy Woman
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · Mrs. Saunders
The Moon and Sixpence
1942 · Tiare Johnson
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Emily
We Were Dancing
1942 · Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · Mrs. Baldwin
The Chocolate Soldier
1941 · Madame Helene
Love Crazy
1941 · Mrs. Cooper
Strange Alibi
1941 · Katie
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · Store Shopper
Road Show
1941 · Mrs. Newton
Kitty Foyle
1940 · Customer
Hudson's Bay
1940 · Duchess (scenes deleted)
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Calling All Husbands
1940 · Emmie Trippe
Rebecca
1940 · Edythe Van Hopper
