Florence Bates
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1888, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Died
- January 31, 1954
- Movies
- 60
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1953 | Paris Model | Nora Sullivan |
| 1953 | Main Street to Broadway | Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence |
| 1952 | Les Miserables | Madame Bonnet |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Sadie |
| 1951 | Havana Rose | Mrs. Fillmore |
| 1951 | The Tall Target | Mrs. Charlotte Alsop |
| 1951 | Father Takes the Air | Minerva Bobbin |
| 1951 | Lullaby of Broadway | Mrs. Anna Hubbell |
| 1950 | County Fair | Nora 'Ma' Ryan |
| 1950 | The Second Woman | Amelia Foster |
| 1950 | Belle of Old Mexico | Nellie Chatfield |
| 1949 | On the Town | Madame Dilyovska |
| 1949 | The Girl from Jones Beach | Miss Emma Shoemaker |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | Mrs. Manleigh |
| 1948 | Portrait of Jennie | Mrs. Jekes |
| 1948 | My Dear Secretary | Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) |
| 1948 | Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | Mandy |
| 1948 | River Lady | Ma Dunnegan |
| 1948 | Winter Meeting | Mrs. Castle |
| 1948 | The Inside Story | Geraldine Atherton |
| 1948 | I Remember Mama | Florence Dana Moorhead |
| 1947 | The Judge Steps Out | Chita |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Mrs. Griswold |
| 1947 | Love and Learn | Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady |
| 1947 | The Brasher Doubloon | Mrs. Murdock |
| 1946 | The Time, The Place and The Girl | Mme. Lucia Cassel |
| 1946 | The Man I Love | Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Cluny Brown | Dowager at Ames's Party |
| 1946 | Claudia and David | Nancy Riddle |
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | Rose |
| 1946 | Whistle Stop | Molly Veech |
| 1945 | San Antonio | Henrietta |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Sophie Bellop |
| 1945 | Out of This World | Harriet Pringle |
| 1945 | Tonight and Every Night | May Tolliver |
| 1944 | Tahiti Nights | Queen Liliha |
| 1944 | Belle of the Yukon | Viola Chase |
| 1944 | Kismet | Karsha |
| 1944 | The Mask of Dimitrios | Madame Elise Chavez |
| 1943 | His Butler's Sister | Lady Sloughberry |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait | Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky | Mrs. Van Every |
| 1943 | Mister Big | Mrs. Mary Davis |
| 1943 | Slightly Dangerous | Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered | Gypsy Woman |
| 1942 | My Heart Belongs to Daddy | Mrs. Saunders |
| 1942 | The Moon and Sixpence | Tiare Johnson |
| 1942 | The Tuttles of Tahiti | Emily |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip |
| 1942 | Mexican Spitfire at Sea | Mrs. Baldwin |
| 1941 | The Chocolate Soldier | Madame Helene |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Mrs. Cooper |
| 1941 | Strange Alibi | Katie |
| 1941 | The Devil and Miss Jones | Store Shopper |
| 1941 | Road Show | Mrs. Newton |
| 1940 | Kitty Foyle | Customer |
| 1940 | Hudson's Bay | Duchess (scenes deleted) |
| 1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo | Countess Mathilde Von Braun |
| 1940 | Calling All Husbands | Emmie Trippe |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Edythe Van Hopper |
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