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Florence Bates
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Notable films
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Rebecca
As Edythe Van Hopper
My Dear Secretary
As Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Heaven Can Wait
As Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
On the Town
As Madame Dilyovska
I Remember Mama
As Florence Dana Moorhead
The Devil and Miss Jones
As Store Shopper
The Son of Monte Cristo
As Countess Mathilde Von Braun
The Second Woman
As Amelia Foster
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The Second Woman
1950 · Amelia Foster
On the Town
1949 · Madame Dilyovska
My Dear Secretary
1948 · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
I Remember Mama
1948 · Florence Dana Moorhead
Heaven Can Wait
1943 · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · Store Shopper
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Rebecca
1940 · Edythe Van Hopper