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Florence Bates‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1888-04-13

Popularity

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Florence Bates

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Florence Bates

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1888-04-13

Popularity

star3.8

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.

Movie Credits

Rebecca

Rebecca‌
star7.9
calendar 1940

The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon‌
star5.9
calendar 1947

Love Crazy

Love Crazy‌
star7.1
calendar 1941

Belle of Old Mexico

Belle of Old Mexico‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Main Street to Broadway

Main Street to Broadway‌
star6.5
calendar 1953

The Tall Target

The Tall Target‌
star6.9
calendar 1951

Tahiti Nights

Tahiti Nights‌
star0.0
calendar 1944

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‌
star6.8
calendar 1947

The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios‌
star7.0
calendar 1944

Lullaby of Broadway

Lullaby of Broadway‌
star5.8
calendar 1951

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama‌
star7.0
calendar 1948

Winter Meeting

Winter Meeting‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Kismet

Kismet‌
star5.0
calendar 1944

Tonight and Every Night

Tonight and Every Night‌
star5.2
calendar 1945

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones‌
star7.7
calendar 1941

The Second Woman

The Second Woman‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Diary of a Chambermaid‌
star6.2
calendar 1946

Belle of the Yukon

Belle of the Yukon‌
star4.7
calendar 1944

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives‌
star7.2
calendar 1949

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky‌
star6.9
calendar 1943

San Antonio

San Antonio‌
star5.7
calendar 1945

The Son of Monte Cristo

The Son of Monte Cristo‌
star6.2
calendar 1940

Strange Alibi

Strange Alibi‌
star6.5
calendar 1941

Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown‌
star7.2
calendar 1946

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence‌
star6.1
calendar 1942

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop‌
star4.5
calendar 1946

The Chocolate Soldier

The Chocolate Soldier‌
star6.6
calendar 1941

River Lady

River Lady‌
star5.0
calendar 1948

Les Miserables

Les Miserables‌
star5.4
calendar 1952

The Tuttles of Tahiti

The Tuttles of Tahiti‌
star5.5
calendar 1942

Road Show

Road Show‌
star5.8
calendar 1941

The Inside Story

The Inside Story‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous‌
star5.8
calendar 1943

We Were Dancing

We Were Dancing‌
star4.2
calendar 1942

Mister Big

Mister Big‌
star2.2
calendar 1943

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Mexican Spitfire at Sea‌
star3.0
calendar 1942

Paris Model

Paris Model‌
star3.0
calendar 1953

Claudia and David

Claudia and David‌
star6.0
calendar 1946

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

Out of This World

Out of This World‌
star7.3
calendar 1945

The Judge Steps Out

The Judge Steps Out‌
star7.0
calendar 1947

Calling All Husbands

Calling All Husbands‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

My Dear Secretary

My Dear Secretary‌
star5.9
calendar 1948

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait‌
star6.9
calendar 1943

The Girl from Jones Beach

The Girl from Jones Beach‌
star5.4
calendar 1949

The San Francisco Story

The San Francisco Story‌
star4.8
calendar 1952

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

My Heart Belongs to Daddy‌
star5.8
calendar 1942

They Got Me Covered

They Got Me Covered‌
star5.9
calendar 1943

Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle‌
star6.5
calendar 1940

Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk‌
star5.6
calendar 1945

The Time, The Place and The Girl

The Time, The Place and The Girl‌
star5.4
calendar 1946

On the Town

On the Town‌
star7.0
calendar 1949

Love and Learn

Love and Learn‌
star5.5
calendar 1947

His Butler's Sister

His Butler's Sister‌
star7.1
calendar 1943

County Fair

County Fair‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie‌
star7.0
calendar 1948

Father Takes the Air

Father Takes the Air‌
star5.0
calendar 1951

Havana Rose

Havana Rose‌
star0.0
calendar 1951

Tv Credits

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse‌
star5.7
calendar 1952

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy‌
star8.0
calendar 1951