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Aliases: Florence Silverlake

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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Movie Involvements: 40

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia 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.

Most Famous Work

The Rockford Files
Average
7

The Rockford Files

(1974) Old Woman
Stagecoach
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8

Stagecoach

(1939) Nancy Whitney (uncredited)
The Day of the Locust
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6

The Day of the Locust

(1975) Lee Sister #2
Union Pacific
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7

Union Pacific

(1939) Woman (uncredited)
Crash Dive
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6

Crash Dive

(1943) Doris - Jean's Roommate
Nichols
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5

Nichols

(1971) Old Lady
Romance
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6

Romance

(1930) Susan Van Tuyl
Only Yesterday
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7

Only Yesterday

(1933) One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1975 Grandma Boggs
Lee Sister #2
1974 Mrs. Foster
Old Woman
Landlady
Old Friend
1973 N/A
N/A
1971 Mrs. Prine
Old Lady
1970 Mildred
1967 Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
Maw
1954 Mrs. Cameron
Mrs. Gruman
1953 Mrs. Binger
1952 Grandma Watson
Clara Randolph
Maggie
Martha
1948 Florence Kennedy
Florence Kennedy
Florence Kennedy
1947 Florence - Edgar's Wife
1946 Florence
Florence Kennedy
Housewife (uncredited)
Penelope Beeler Witherspoon
Florence, Edgar's Wife
1945 Florence Kennedy
Florence Kennedy
Mrs. Florence Kennedy
Florence Kennedy
1944 Florence
Miss Lake
Abigail
Miss Crims
Florence
1943 Doris - Jean's Roommate
1942 Florence
Phoebe Quentin
Counter Girl (uncredited)
1939 Slavey (uncredited)
Oliver's Wife (uncredited)
Woman (uncredited)
Nancy Whitney (uncredited)
Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)
1938 Hattie
Justice of the Peace's Wife
Dizzy
Mrs. Billy Winters
Prisoner
Florence
Carol Towner
1937 Florence, Edgar's wife
Henrietta Turnbull
1936 Salesgirl
Clara
Florence
Florence Kennedy
Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Florence Kennedy
1935 Doris Pritchard
Florence Kennedy
Florence
Florence
1934 Florence Kennedy
Florence
Florence, Edgar's Wife
Florence
1933 Florence
One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)
Dizzy
Sally Withers
Florence Kennedy
N/A
1932 Florence Kennedy
Elmer's Wife
Ms. Smith (uncredited)
Mrs. Dace (uncredited)
Autograph Seeker
1931 Caroline Mitford
Anya Karlov
1930 Susan Van Tuyl
Nadja
1929 George's Wife
Myrtle
Pearl
Year Character Movie/Tv

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