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Florence Bates

Born 13 Apr 1888 in San Antonio, Texas, USADied 31 Jan 1954aged 6560 credits

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.

Florence Bates, nascuda Florence Rabe (San Antonio, Texas, 15 d'abril de 1888 - Burbank, Califòrnia, 31 de gener de 1954), va ser una actriu nord-americana de personatges de cinema i teatre que sovint interpretava personatges de grans dames en papers secundaris.

Florence Bates (* 15. April 1888 in San Antonio, Texas; † 31. Januar 1954 in Burbank, Kalifornien; eigentlich Florence Rabe) war eine US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin. Mitte der 1930er Jahre wollte sich Bates mit über 40 schließlich auch als Schauspielerin beweisen. Im Pasadena Playhouse war sie fortan mehrfach auf der Bühne zu sehen. Als sie die Rolle der Miss Bates in einer Theateradaption von Jane Austens Emma spielte, nahm sie, abgeleitet von ihrer Rolle, den Künstlernamen Florence Bates an. 1940 hatte sie ihren ersten nennenswerten Leinwandauftritt als eitle Mrs. Van Hopper in Alfred Hitchcocks Rebecca neben Joan Fontaine und Laurence Olivier. In den folgenden 13 Jahren war sie als Charakterdarstellerin in mehr als 60 Filmen zu sehen. Zumeist spielte sie matronenhafte und wohlhabende Damen wie in den beiden Lubitsch-Filmkomödien Ein himmlischer Sünder (1943) und Cluny Brown auf Freiersfüßen (1946). Nach dem Tod ihres zweiten Mannes im Jahr 1951 wurde Bates’ eigene Gesundheit zunehmend schlechter. Sie trat dennoch in Fernsehserien wie I Love Lucy (1952) auf.

Acting (60)

Paris Model
Paris Model1953 · Nora Sullivan
Main Street to Broadway
Main Street to Broadway1953 · Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Les Miserables
Les Miserables1952 · Madame Bonnet
The San Francisco Story
The San Francisco Story1952 · Sadie
Havana Rose
Havana Rose1951 · Mrs. Fillmore
Father Takes the Air
Father Takes the Air1951 · Minerva Bobbin
The Tall Target
The Tall Target1951 · Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Lullaby of Broadway
Lullaby of Broadway1951 · Mrs. Anna Hubbell
The Second Woman
The Second Woman1950 · Amelia Foster
County Fair
County Fair1950 · Nora 'Ma' Ryan
Belle of Old Mexico
Belle of Old Mexico1950 · Nellie Chatfield
On the Town
On the Town1949 · Madame Dilyovska
The Girl from Jones Beach
The Girl from Jones Beach1949 · Miss Emma Shoemaker
A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives1949 · Mrs. Manleigh
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama1948 · Florence Dana Moorhead
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven1948 · Mandy
My Dear Secretary
My Dear Secretary1948 · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Winter Meeting
Winter Meeting1948 · Mrs. Castle
The Inside Story
The Inside Story1948 · Geraldine Atherton
Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie1948 · Mrs. Jekes
River Lady
River Lady1948 · Ma Dunnegan
The Judge Steps Out
The Judge Steps Out1947 · Chita
Love and Learn
Love and Learn1947 · Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
The Brasher Doubloon
The Brasher Doubloon1947 · Mrs. Murdock
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1947 · Mrs. Griswold
The Man I Love
The Man I Love1946 · Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
Cluny Brown
Cluny Brown1946 · Dowager at Ames's Party
The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Diary of a Chambermaid1946 · Rose
Whistle Stop
Whistle Stop1946 · Molly Veech
The Time, The Place and The Girl
The Time, The Place and The Girl1946 · Mme. Lucia Cassel
Claudia and David
Claudia and David1946 · Nancy Riddle
Saratoga Trunk
Saratoga Trunk1945 · Sophie Bellop
Tonight and Every Night
Tonight and Every Night1945 · May Tolliver
Out of This World
Out of This World1945 · Harriet Pringle
San Antonio
San Antonio1945 · Henrietta
Belle of the Yukon
Belle of the Yukon1944 · Viola Chase
Tahiti Nights
Tahiti Nights1944 · Queen Liliha
The Mask of Dimitrios
The Mask of Dimitrios1944 · Madame Elise Chavez
Kismet
Kismet1944 · Karsha
They Got Me Covered
They Got Me Covered1943 · Gypsy Woman
His Butler's Sister
His Butler's Sister1943 · Lady Sloughberry
Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait1943 · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
Mr. Lucky1943 · Mrs. Van Every
Mister Big
Mister Big1943 · Mrs. Mary Davis
Slightly Dangerous
Slightly Dangerous1943 · Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy1942 · Mrs. Saunders
We Were Dancing
We Were Dancing1942 · Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence1942 · Tiare Johnson
The Tuttles of Tahiti
The Tuttles of Tahiti1942 · Emily
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Mexican Spitfire at Sea1942 · Mrs. Baldwin
The Devil and Miss Jones
The Devil and Miss Jones1941 · Store Shopper
Road Show
Road Show1941 · Mrs. Newton
Strange Alibi
Strange Alibi1941 · Katie
The Chocolate Soldier
The Chocolate Soldier1941 · Madame Helene
Love Crazy
Love Crazy1941 · Mrs. Cooper
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Son of Monte Cristo1940 · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Hudson's Bay
Hudson's Bay1940 · Duchess (scenes deleted)
Kitty Foyle
Kitty Foyle1940 · Customer
Rebecca
Rebecca1940 · Edythe Van Hopper
Calling All Husbands
Calling All Husbands1940 · Emmie Trippe