1888-04-13 ( 136 years old ) in San Antonio, Texas, USA
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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.
Movies
Paris Model
1953-11-10
Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
Les Miserables
1952-08-14
The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11
Havana Rose
1951-09-15
The Tall Target
1951-08-17
Father Takes the Air
1951-06-17
Lullaby of Broadway
1951-03-26
County Fair
1950-07-30
The Second Woman
1950-07-07
Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01
On the Town
1949-12-08
The Girl from Jones Beach
1949-07-16
A Letter to Three Wives
1949-01-20
Portrait of Jennie
1948-12-25
My Dear Secretary
1948-11-05
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16
River Lady
1948-05-20
Winter Meeting
1948-04-07
The Inside Story
1948-03-14
I Remember Mama
1948-03-09
The Judge Steps Out
1947-12-15
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01
Love and Learn
1947-05-02
The Brasher Doubloon
1947-02-06
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946-12-26
The Man I Love
1946-12-26
Cluny Brown
1946-06-02
Claudia and David
1946-02-25
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15
Whistle Stop
1946-01-25
San Antonio
1945-12-29
Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
Out of This World
1945-07-13
Tonight and Every Night
1945-01-09
Tahiti Nights
1944-12-28
Belle of the Yukon
1944-12-27
Kismet
1944-10-01
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944-06-23
His Butler's Sister
1943-11-26
Heaven Can Wait
1943-08-05
Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01
Mister Big
1943-05-28
Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
They Got Me Covered
1943-03-04
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942-11-07
The Moon and Sixpence
1942-10-27
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942-05-01
We Were Dancing
1942-04-30
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942-03-13
The Chocolate Soldier
1941-11-01
Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Strange Alibi
1941-04-19
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941-04-11
Road Show
1941-02-18
Kitty Foyle
1940-12-27
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05
Calling All Husbands
1940-09-07
Rebecca
1940-03-23
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