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The Tall Target

as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop

1951
Lullaby of Broadway

as Mrs. Anna Hubbell

1951
On the Town

as Madame Dilyovska

1949
A Letter to Three Wives

as Mrs. Manleigh

1949
My Dear Secretary

as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)

1948
Portrait of Jennie

as Mrs. Jekes

1948
I Remember Mama

as Florence Dana Moorhead

1948
Winter Meeting

as Mrs. Castle

1948
River Lady

as Ma Dunnegan

1948
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as Mrs. Griswold

1947
The Time, The Place and The Girl

as Mme. Lucia Cassel

1946
San Antonio

as Henrietta

1945
Tonight and Every Night

as May Tolliver

1945
Saratoga Trunk

as Sophie Bellop

1945
Out of This World

as Harriet Pringle

1945
Kismet

as Karsha

1944
Belle of the Yukon

as Viola Chase

1944
Slightly Dangerous

as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke

1943
Mister Big

as Mrs. Mary Davis

1943
The Moon and Sixpence

as Tiare Johnson

1942
The Tuttles of Tahiti

as Emily

1942
My Heart Belongs to Daddy

as Mrs. Saunders

1942
We Were Dancing

as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip

1942
Love Crazy

as Mrs. Cooper

1941
Strange Alibi

as Katie

1941
Rebecca

as Edythe Van Hopper

1940
The Son of Monte Cristo

as Countess Mathilde Von Braun

1940
Florence Bates Florence Bates

Birthday

1888-04-15

Place of Birth

San Antonio, Texas, USA

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.
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