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Florence Bates

Florence Bates
  • Name: Florence Bates
  • Birthday: 1888-04-13
  • Also known as: Florence Rabe
  • Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Popularity: 3.494
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Paris Model   as  Nora Sullivan 1953-11-10
Main Street to Broadway   as  Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence 1953-10-12
Les Miserables   as  Madame Bonnet 1952-08-14
The San Francisco Story   as  Sadie 1952-05-11
Havana Rose   as  Mrs. Fillmore 1951-09-15
The Tall Target   as  Mrs. Charlotte Alsop 1951-08-17
Father Takes the Air   as  Minerva Bobbin 1951-06-17
Lullaby of Broadway   as  Mrs. Anna Hubbell 1951-03-26
County Fair   as  Nora 'Ma' Ryan 1950-07-30
The Second Woman   as  Amelia Foster 1950-07-07
Belle of Old Mexico   as  Nellie Chatfield 1950-03-01
On the Town   as  Madame Dilyovska 1949-12-08
The Girl from Jones Beach   as  Miss Emma Shoemaker 1949-07-16
A Letter to Three Wives   as  Mrs. Manleigh 1949-01-20
Portrait of Jennie   as  Mrs. Jekes 1948-12-25
My Dear Secretary   as  Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) 1948-11-05
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven   as  Mandy 1948-07-16
River Lady   as  Ma Dunnegan 1948-06-01
Winter Meeting   as  Mrs. Castle 1948-04-07
The Inside Story   as  Geraldine Atherton 1948-03-14
I Remember Mama   as  Florence Dana Moorhead 1948-03-09
The Judge Steps Out   as  Chita 1947-12-15
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty   as  Mrs. Griswold 1947-09-01
Love and Learn   as  Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady 1947-05-02
The Brasher Doubloon   as  Mrs. Murdock 1947-02-06
The Time, The Place and The Girl   as  Mme. Lucia Cassel 1946-12-26
Cluny Brown   as  Dowager at Ames's Party 1946-06-02
Claudia and David   as  Nancy Riddle 1946-02-25
The Diary of a Chambermaid   as  Rose 1946-02-15
Whistle Stop   as  Molly Veech 1946-01-25
San Antonio   as  Henrietta 1945-12-29
Saratoga Trunk   as  Sophie Bellop 1945-11-21
Out of This World   as  Harriet Pringle 1945-07-13
Tonight and Every Night   as  May Tolliver 1945-01-09
Tahiti Nights   as  Queen Liliha 1944-12-28
Belle of the Yukon   as  Viola Chase 1944-12-27
Kismet   as  Karsha 1944-10-01
The Mask of Dimitrios   as  Madame Elise Chavez 1944-06-23
His Butler's Sister   as  Lady Sloughberry 1943-11-26
Heaven Can Wait   as  Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) 1943-08-05
Mr. Lucky   as  Mrs. Van Every 1943-07-01
Mister Big   as  Mrs. Mary Davis 1943-05-28
Slightly Dangerous   as  Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke 1943-04-01
They Got Me Covered   as  Gypsy Woman 1943-03-04
My Heart Belongs to Daddy   as  Mrs. Saunders 1942-11-07
The Moon and Sixpence   as  Tiare Johnson 1942-10-27
The Tuttles of Tahiti   as  Emily 1942-05-01
We Were Dancing   as  Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip 1942-04-30
Mexican Spitfire at Sea   as  Mrs. Baldwin 1942-03-13
The Chocolate Soldier   as  Madame Helene 1941-11-01
Love Crazy   as  Mrs. Cooper 1941-05-23
Strange Alibi   as  Katie 1941-04-19
The Devil and Miss Jones   as  Store Shopper 1941-04-11
Road Show   as  Mrs. Newton 1941-02-18
Kitty Foyle   as  Customer 1940-12-27
The Son of Monte Cristo   as  Countess Mathilde Von Braun 1940-12-05
Calling All Husbands   as  Emmie Trippe 1940-09-07
Rebecca   as  Edythe Van Hopper 1940-03-23