Florence Bates

Florence Bates

Birthday: 1888-04-13

Deathday: 1954-01-31

Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Also known as: Florence Rabe

imdb_id: nm0060904

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.

Played in movies:

Rebecca

Score: 7.9

The Devil and Miss Jones

Score: 7.7

Out of This World

Score: 7.3

A Letter to Three Wives

Score: 7.2

Cluny Brown

Score: 7.2

His Butler's Sister

Score: 7.1

I Remember Mama

Score: 7.1

Portrait of Jennie

Score: 7.1

On the Town

Score: 7.0

The Judge Steps Out

Score: 7.0

Mr. Lucky

Score: 7.0

The Mask of Dimitrios

Score: 7.0

Love Crazy

Score: 6.9

Heaven Can Wait

Score: 6.9

The Tall Target

Score: 6.8

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Score: 6.7

Strange Alibi

Score: 6.6

Kitty Foyle

Score: 6.6

The Inside Story

Score: 6.5

Winter Meeting

Score: 6.5

Main Street to Broadway

Score: 6.5

The Chocolate Soldier

Score: 6.4

The Moon and Sixpence

Score: 6.3

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Score: 6.3

The Man I Love

Score: 6.2

The Brasher Doubloon

Score: 6.0

Calling All Husbands

Score: 6.0

Claudia and David

Score: 6.0

Slightly Dangerous

Score: 6.0

They Got Me Covered

Score: 5.9

My Dear Secretary

Score: 5.9

Lullaby of Broadway

Score: 5.8

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Score: 5.8

Saratoga Trunk

Score: 5.7

San Antonio

Score: 5.7

The Son of Monte Cristo

Score: 5.6

The Second Woman

Score: 5.6

Love and Learn

Score: 5.5

The Girl from Jones Beach

Score: 5.5

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Score: 5.5

The Time, The Place and The Girl

Score: 5.4

Les Miserables

Score: 5.4

Road Show

Score: 5.4

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Score: 5.3

Tonight and Every Night

Score: 5.2

Father Takes the Air

Score: 5.0

River Lady

Score: 5.0

Kismet

Score: 4.9

The San Francisco Story

Score: 4.8

Belle of the Yukon

Score: 4.7

Whistle Stop

Score: 4.3

We Were Dancing

Score: 4.2

Paris Model

Score: 3.0

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Score: 3.0

Mister Big

Score: 2.2

Havana Rose

Score: 0.0

County Fair

Score: 0.0

Tahiti Nights

Score: 0.0

Belle of Old Mexico

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

I Love Lucy

Score: 7.9

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Dick Tracy

Score: 6.0