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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.
as Nora Sullivan
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
as Madame Bonnet
as Sadie
as Mrs. Fillmore
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
as Minerva Bobbin
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
as Nora 'Ma' Ryan
as Amelia Foster
as Nellie Chatfield
as Madame Dilyovska
as Miss Emma Shoemaker
as Mrs. Manleigh
as Mrs. Jekes
as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
as Mandy
as Ma Dunnegan
as Mrs. Castle
as Geraldine Atherton
as Florence Dana Moorhead
as Chita
as Mrs. Griswold
as Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
as Mrs. Murdock
as Mme. Lucia Cassel
as Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
as Dowager at Ames's Party
as Nancy Riddle
as Rose
as Molly Veech
as Henrietta
as Sophie Bellop
as Harriet Pringle
as May Tolliver
as Queen Liliha
as Viola Chase
as Karsha
as Madame Elise Chavez
as Lady Sloughberry
as Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
as Mrs. Van Every
as Mrs. Mary Davis
as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
as Gypsy Woman
as Mrs. Saunders
as Tiare Johnson
as Emily
as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
as Mrs. Baldwin
as Madame Helene
as Mrs. Cooper
as Katie
as Store Shopper
as Mrs. Newton
as Customer
as Duchess (scenes deleted)
as Countess Mathilde Von Braun
as Emmie Trippe
as Edythe Van Hopper
