Florence Bates
- Interprétation
- 13 avril 1888 · San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 31 janvier 1954
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Paris Model · Nora Sullivan
- Main Street to Broadway · Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
- Four Star Playhouse · Ottilie
- Les Miserables · Madame Bonnet
- The San Francisco Story · Sadie
- I Love Lucy · Mrs. Pettebone
- Havana Rose · Mrs. Fillmore
- Le Grand Attentat · Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
- Father Takes the Air · Minerva Bobbin
- Lullaby of Broadway · Mrs. Anna Hubbell
- Dick Tracy · Mrs. Frothingham
- County Fair · Nora 'Ma' Ryan
- la deuxième femme · Amelia Foster
- Belle of Old Mexico · Nellie Chatfield
- Un jour à New-York · Madame Dilyovska
- The Girl from Jones Beach · Miss Emma Shoemaker
- Chaînes conjugales · Mrs. Manleigh
- Le Portrait de Jennie · Mrs. Jekes
- Ma chère secrétaire · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven · Mandy
- Le Barrage de Burlington · Ma Dunnegan
- Rencontre d'hiver · Mrs. Castle
- The Inside Story · Geraldine Atherton
- Tendresse · Florence Dana Moorhead
- The Judge Steps Out · Chita
- La Vie secrète de Walter Mitty · Mrs. Griswold
- Love and Learn · Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
- La pièce maudite · Mrs. Murdock
- Le Temps, la place et la fille · Mme. Lucia Cassel
- The Man I Love · Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
- La Folle Ingénue · Dowager at Ames's Party
- Claudia and David · Nancy Riddle
- Le Journal d'une femme de chambre · Rose
- Tragique rendez-vous · Molly Veech
- San Antonio · Henrietta
- L'Intrigante de Saratoga · Sophie Bellop
- Out of This World · Harriet Pringle
- Cette nuit et toujours · May Tolliver
- Tahiti Nights · Queen Liliha
- La Belle de l'Alaska · Viola Chase
- Kismet · Karsha
- Le masque de Dimitrios · Madame Elise Chavez
- His Butler's Sister · Lady Sloughberry
- Le ciel peut attendre · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
- Mr. Lucky · Mrs. Van Every
- Mister Big · Mrs. Mary Davis
- Slightly Dangerous · Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
- They Got Me Covered · Gypsy Woman
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy · Mrs. Saunders
- The Moon and Sixpence · Tiare Johnson
- The Tuttles of Tahiti · Emily
- We Were Dancing · Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
- Mexican Spitfire at Sea · Mrs. Baldwin
- The Chocolate Soldier · Madame Helene
- Love Crazy · Mrs. Cooper
- Strange Alibi · Katie
- Le Diable s'en mêle · Store Shopper
- Road Show · Mrs. Newton
- Kitty Foyle · Customer
- Hudson's Bay · Duchess (scenes deleted)
- Le fils de Monte-Cristo · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
- Calling All Husbands · Emmie Trippe
- Rebecca · Edythe Van Hopper