Acting
Florence Lake
Born Nov 27, 1904 · Charleston, South Carolina, USA · Died Apr 11, 1980
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Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.
Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in "dumb" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Claverton telephone operator in Lassie. Lake played the role for the entire ten year "farm seasons" of the show (1954–1964), thus becoming the Lassie player with the longest tour of duty on the series.
She played the role of Mama Angel in a 1957 episode of the The Lone Ranger TV series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw". She also appeared in the first color episode of the TV series Superman in 1957 as a cave woman.
In her later years, Lake appeared as Elvira Norton on an episode of Dragnet entitled "Frauds". She also played a blind date for the character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, "Lou's First Date". Her last roles were in the TV series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.
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Acting
Long Way Home
1975
Drama · Family · TV Movie
The Day of the Locust
1975
Drama
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
Comedy · TV Movie
The Rockford Files
1974
Crime · Drama · Mystery
Police Woman
1974
Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama
Welcome To Arrow Beach
1974
Horror
Live Again, Die Again
1974
Science Fiction · Thriller · TV Movie
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Comedy · TV Movie
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
Comedy
Time to Run
1973
Drama
Banyon
1972
Drama
Emergency!
1972
Action & Adventure · Drama
Nichols
1971
Western
Banyon
1971
Crime · Drama · Mystery
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
Comedy
The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970
War & Politics · Drama
Savage Intruder
1970
Thriller · Horror
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
Drama
The Doris Day Show
1968
Comedy · Western
Here's Lucy
1968
Comedy
Adam-12
1968
Crime · Drama
The Big Mouth
1967
Comedy · Crime
Mr. Terrific
1967
Comedy
Petticoat Junction
1963
Comedy · Family
Lock-Up
1959
Drama
Lassie
1954
Action & Adventure · Drama · Family
The Desperado
1954
Western
She Couldn't Say No
1954
Comedy
The Flaming Urge
1953
Crime
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
The Maverick
1952
Western
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
Comedy · Family
Fargo
1952
Action · Western
Man from the Black Hills
1952
Western · Drama
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Comedy · Talk · Family
Do or Diet
1947
Comedy
Little Giant
1946
Comedy
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
Comedy
Trouble or Nothing
1946
Comedy
The Big Beef
1945
Comedy
You Drive Me Crazy
1945
Comedy
Hi, Beautiful
1944
Comedy · Music · Romance
San Diego I Love You
1944
Comedy
Goin' to Town
1944
Comedy
Her Primitive Man
1944
Comedy
Crash Dive
1943
War · Romance · Drama
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
Mystery
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
Comedy · Music · Romance
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
Comedy · Romance
When Tomorrow Comes
1939
Drama · Romance
Bachelor Mother
1939
Comedy · Romance
Union Pacific
1939
Drama · Western
Stagecoach
1939
Western
Pacific Liner
1939
Adventure · Action
Convicts at Large
1938
Crime · Drama
Next Time I Marry
1938
Comedy · Romance
Rebellious Daughters
1938
Drama
Law of the Underworld
1938
Crime · Drama
Condemned Women
1938
Drama · Romance
I Met My Love Again
1938
Drama · Romance
Love in a Bungalow
1937
Comedy · Romance
Quality Street
1937
Comedy · Drama · Romance
To Mary - with Love
1936
Drama
Women Are Trouble
1936
Crime · Drama
Dummy Ache
1936
Comedy
Will Power
1936
Comedy
Muss 'em Up
1936
Crime · Mystery
Two-Fisted
1935
Comedy
Poisoned Ivory
1934
The Winnah!
1934
Music
What Fur
1933
Comedy
Only Yesterday
1933
Drama · Romance
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
Comedy · Drama · Music
Midshipman Jack
1933
Adventure
Westward Passage
1932
Romance · Drama
Night World
1932
Drama
Ladies of the Jury
1932
Comedy · Crime · Mystery
Secret Service
1931
Western · Drama · History
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
Horror · Drama
Romance
1930
Drama · Romance
The Rogue Song
1930
Music · Romance
Waltzing Around
1929
Comedy
Thru Different Eyes
1929
Drama
New Year's Eve
1929
Drama