Florence Bates
- Recitazione
- 13 aprile 1888 · San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 31 gennaio 1954
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Paris Model · Nora Sullivan
- Main Street to Broadway · Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
- Four Star Playhouse · Ottilie
- I Miserabili · Madame Bonnet
- La peccatrice di San Francisco · Sadie
- Lucy ed io · Mrs. Pettebone
- Havana Rose · Mrs. Fillmore
- Bersaglio eccellente · Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
- Father Takes the Air · Minerva Bobbin
- La ninna nanna di Broadway · Mrs. Anna Hubbell
- Dick Tracy · Mrs. Frothingham
- County Fair · Nora 'Ma' Ryan
- La seconda moglie · Amelia Foster
- Belle of Old Mexico · Nellie Chatfield
- Un giorno a New York · Madame Dilyovska
- La foglia di Eva · Miss Emma Shoemaker
- Lettera a tre mogli · Mrs. Manleigh
- Il ritratto di Jennie · Mrs. Jekes
- La cara segretaria · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven · Mandy
- La signora del fiume · Ma Dunnegan
- L'uomo proibito · Mrs. Castle
- The Inside Story · Geraldine Atherton
- Mamma ti ricordo! · Florence Dana Moorhead
- The Judge Steps Out · Chita
- Sogni proibiti · Mrs. Griswold
- Love and Learn · Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
- La moneta insanguinata · Mrs. Murdock
- The Time, The Place and The Girl · Mme. Lucia Cassel
- Io amo · Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
- Fra le tue braccia · Dowager at Ames's Party
- Claudia and David · Nancy Riddle
- Il diario di una cameriera · Rose
- Sangue all'alba · Molly Veech
- Duello a S. Antonio · Henrietta
- Saratoga · Sophie Bellop
- Out of This World · Harriet Pringle
- Stanotte ed ogni notte · May Tolliver
- Tahiti Nights · Queen Liliha
- La bella dello Yukon · Viola Chase
- Kismet · Karsha
- La maschera di Dimitrios · Madame Elise Chavez
- His Butler's Sister · Lady Sloughberry
- Il cielo può attendere · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
- La dama e l'avventuriero · Mrs. Van Every
- Mister Big · Mrs. Mary Davis
- La fortuna è bionda · Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
- Ho salvato l'America · Gypsy Woman
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy · Mrs. Saunders
- La luna e sei soldi · Tiare Johnson
- Il peccatore di Tahiti · Emily
- We Were Dancing · Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
- Mexican Spitfire at Sea · Mrs. Baldwin
- The Chocolate Soldier · Madame Helene
- Innamorato pazzo · Mrs. Cooper
- Strange Alibi · Katie
- Il diavolo si converte · Store Shopper
- Road Show · Mrs. Newton
- Kitty Foyle, ragazza innamorata · Customer
- Hudson's Bay · Duchess (scenes deleted)
- The Son of Monte Cristo · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
- Calling All Husbands · Emmie Trippe
- Rebecca - La prima moglie · Edythe Van Hopper