Florence Bates
Acting
Народився 13 квітня 1888, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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.
Фільмографія
- 1953Main Street to Broadway — Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
- 1953Paris Model — Nora Sullivan
- Four Star Playhouse — Ottilie
- 1952Les Miserables — Madame Bonnet
- 1952The San Francisco Story — Sadie
- 1951Father Takes the Air — Minerva Bobbin
- 1951Havana Rose — Mrs. Fillmore
- I Love Lucy — Mrs. Pettebone
- 1951Lullaby of Broadway — Mrs. Anna Hubbell
- 1951The Tall Target — Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
- 1950Belle of Old Mexico — Nellie Chatfield
- 1950County Fair — Nora 'Ma' Ryan
- Dick Tracy — Mrs. Frothingham
- 1950The Second Woman — Amelia Foster
- 1949A Letter to Three Wives — Mrs. Manleigh
- 1949On the Town — Madame Dilyovska
- 1949The Girl from Jones Beach — Miss Emma Shoemaker
- 1948I Remember Mama — Florence Dana Moorhead
- 1948My Dear Secretary — Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
- 1948Portrait of Jennie — Mrs. Jekes
- 1948River Lady — Ma Dunnegan
- 1948Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven — Mandy
- 1948The Inside Story — Geraldine Atherton
- 1948Winter Meeting — Mrs. Castle
- 1947Love and Learn — Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
- 1947The Brasher Doubloon — Mrs. Murdock
- 1947The Judge Steps Out — Chita
- 1947The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — Mrs. Griswold
- 1946Claudia and David — Nancy Riddle
- 1946Cluny Brown — Dowager at Ames's Party
- 1946The Diary of a Chambermaid — Rose
- 1946The Man I Love — Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
- 1946The Time, The Place and The Girl — Mme. Lucia Cassel
- 1946Whistle Stop — Molly Veech
- 1945Out of This World — Harriet Pringle
- 1945San Antonio — Henrietta
- 1945Saratoga Trunk — Sophie Bellop
- 1945Tonight and Every Night — May Tolliver
- 1944Belle of the Yukon — Viola Chase
- 1944Kismet — Karsha
- 1944Tahiti Nights — Queen Liliha
- 1944The Mask of Dimitrios — Madame Elise Chavez
- 1943Heaven Can Wait — Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
- 1943His Butler's Sister — Lady Sloughberry
- 1943Mister Big — Mrs. Mary Davis
- 1943Slightly Dangerous — Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
- 1943They Got Me Covered — Gypsy Woman
- 1943Містер Щасливчик — Mrs. Van Every
- 1942Mexican Spitfire at Sea — Mrs. Baldwin
- 1942My Heart Belongs to Daddy — Mrs. Saunders
- 1942The Moon and Sixpence — Tiare Johnson
- 1942The Tuttles of Tahiti — Emily
- 1942We Were Dancing — Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
- 1941Love Crazy — Mrs. Cooper
- 1941Road Show — Mrs. Newton
- 1941Strange Alibi — Katie
- 1941The Chocolate Soldier — Madame Helene
- 1941The Devil and Miss Jones — Store Shopper
- 1940Calling All Husbands — Emmie Trippe
- 1940Hudson's Bay — Duchess (scenes deleted)
- 1940Kitty Foyle — Customer
- 1940The Son of Monte Cristo — Countess Mathilde Von Braun
- 1940Ребекка — Edythe Van Hopper