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Florence Bates

1888-04-13

The 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.

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Rebecca

7.889 average rating
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

6.7 average rating
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The Devil and Miss Jones

7.7 average rating
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Heaven Can Wait

6.9 average rating
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A Letter to Three Wives

7.2 average rating
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On the Town

7.031 average rating
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Portrait of Jennie

7.1 average rating
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Cluny Brown

7.1 average rating
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Mr. Lucky

6.9 average rating
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San Antonio

5.7 average rating
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My Dear Secretary

5.9 average rating
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I Remember Mama

7.07 average rating
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Whistle Stop

4.5 average rating
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The Son of Monte Cristo

6.2 average rating
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Slightly Dangerous

5.8 average rating
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The Second Woman

5.5 average rating
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The Mask of Dimitrios

7 average rating
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The Tall Target

6.9 average rating
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Kitty Foyle

6.5 average rating
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The Diary of a Chambermaid

6.258 average rating