Acting
Florence Bates
Born Apr 13, 1888 · San Antonio, Texas, USA · Died Jan 31, 1954
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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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Acting
Paris Model
1953
Comedy · Drama
Main Street to Broadway
1953
Romance · Music
Four Star Playhouse
1952
Drama · Comedy
Les Miserables
1952
Drama · History
The San Francisco Story
1952
Western
I Love Lucy
1951
Comedy · Family
Havana Rose
1951
Comedy
The Tall Target
1951
Thriller · History · Mystery
Father Takes the Air
1951
Comedy
Lullaby of Broadway
1951
Comedy · Music · Romance
Dick Tracy
1950
Crime
County Fair
1950
Drama
The Second Woman
1950
Drama · Mystery
Belle of Old Mexico
1950
Comedy · Music · Western
On the Town
1949
Comedy · Romance
The Girl from Jones Beach
1949
Comedy
A Letter to Three Wives
1949
Romance · Drama · Mystery
Portrait of Jennie
1948
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
My Dear Secretary
1948
Drama · Romance · Comedy
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
Comedy
River Lady
1948
Action · Drama · Western
Winter Meeting
1948
Drama · Romance
The Inside Story
1948
Comedy · Drama · Romance
I Remember Mama
1948
Family · Drama
The Judge Steps Out
1947
Drama · Comedy
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Comedy · Fantasy · Romance
Love and Learn
1947
Comedy
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
Mystery · Crime
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
Music · Comedy · Romance
The Man I Love
1946
Drama · Music
Cluny Brown
1946
Romance · Comedy
Claudia and David
1946
Drama · Comedy
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
Drama · Romance · Comedy
Whistle Stop
1946
Crime · Drama
San Antonio
1945
Western
Saratoga Trunk
1945
Drama · Romance · Western
Out of This World
1945
Romance · Comedy
Tonight and Every Night
1945
Music · Romance · Drama
Tahiti Nights
1944
Comedy · Music · Romance
Belle of the Yukon
1944
Western · Comedy
Kismet
1944
Adventure · Fantasy · Romance
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
Crime · Drama · Mystery
His Butler's Sister
1943
Comedy · Music · Romance
Heaven Can Wait
1943
Comedy · Romance · Fantasy
Mr. Lucky
1943
Comedy · Romance · Crime
Mister Big
1943
Music · Comedy
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Comedy · Romance
They Got Me Covered
1943
Comedy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942
Romance · Comedy
The Moon and Sixpence
1942
Drama
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
Comedy
We Were Dancing
1942
Comedy · Romance
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942
Comedy
The Chocolate Soldier
1941
Music
Love Crazy
1941
Comedy · Romance
Strange Alibi
1941
Crime · Drama
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
Comedy · Romance
Road Show
1941
Comedy · Music
Kitty Foyle
1940
Drama · Romance
Hudson's Bay
1940
Adventure · History
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
Action · Adventure · Drama
Calling All Husbands
1940
Comedy
Rebecca
1940
Mystery · Romance · Thriller