Florence Bates
Age: N/A | From: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Florence Rabe
Gender: Female
Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 24
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Mrs. Van Hopper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rebecca
(1940) Edythe Van Hopper
The Tall Target
(1951) Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
The Son of Monte Cristo
(1940) Countess Mathilde Von Braun
A Letter to Three Wives
(1949) Mrs. Manleigh
Saratoga Trunk
(1945) Sophie Bellop
Portrait of Jennie
(1948) Mrs. Jekes
Tonight and Every Night
(1945) May TolliverActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Mrs. Van Hopper (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1953 | Nora Sullivan | |
| Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence | ||
| 1952 | Ottilie | |
| Madame Bonnet | ||
| Sadie | ||
| 1951 | Mrs. Pettebone | |
| Mrs. Fillmore | ||
| Mrs. Charlotte Alsop | ||
| Minerva Bobbin | ||
| Mrs. Anna Hubbell | ||
| 1950 | Nora 'Ma' Ryan | |
| Amelia Foster | ||
| Nellie Chatfield | ||
| 1949 | Madame Dilyovska | |
| Miss Emma Shoemaker | ||
| Mrs. Manleigh | ||
| 1948 | Mrs. Jekes | |
| Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) | ||
| Mandy | ||
| Ma Dunnegan | ||
| Mrs. Castle | ||
| Geraldine Atherton | ||
| Florence Dana Moorhead | ||
| 1947 | Chita | |
| Mrs. Griswold | ||
| Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady | ||
| Mrs. Murdock | ||
| 1946 | Mme. Lucia Cassel | |
| Dowager at Ames's Party | ||
| Nancy Riddle | ||
| Rose | ||
| Molly Veech | ||
| 1945 | Henrietta | |
| Sophie Bellop | ||
| Harriet Pringle | ||
| May Tolliver | ||
| 1944 | Queen Liliha | |
| Viola Chase | ||
| Karsha | ||
| Madame Elise Chavez | ||
| 1943 | Lady Sloughberry | |
| Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Van Every | ||
| Mrs. Mary Davis | ||
| Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke | ||
| Gypsy Woman | ||
| 1942 | Mrs. Saunders | |
| Tiare Johnson | ||
| Emily | ||
| Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip | ||
| Mrs. Baldwin | ||
| 1941 | Madame Helene | |
| Mrs. Cooper | ||
| Katie | ||
| Store Shopper | ||
| Mrs. Newton | ||
| 1940 | Customer | |
| Countess Mathilde Von Braun | ||
| Emmie Trippe | ||
| Edythe Van Hopper | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
