Rebecca1940
As Edythe Van Hopper
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Florence Bates
Born
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.
Filmography (60)
Heaven Can Wait1943
As Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
A Letter to Three Wives1949
As Mrs. Manleigh
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1947
As Mrs. Griswold
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Portrait of Jennie1948
As Mrs. Jekes
TMDb 7.2 / 10
On the Town1949
As Madame Dilyovska
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Diary of a Chambermaid1946
As Rose
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Mr. Lucky1943
As Mrs. Van Every
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Kitty Foyle1940
As Customer
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Devil and Miss Jones1941
As Store Shopper
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Whistle Stop1946
As Molly Veech
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Paris Model1953
As Nora Sullivan
TMDb 3.6 / 10
The Mask of Dimitrios1944
As Madame Elise Chavez
TMDb 7.1 / 10
I Remember Mama1948
As Florence Dana Moorhead
TMDb 7.2 / 10
My Dear Secretary1948
As Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Second Woman1950
As Amelia Foster
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Son of Monte Cristo1940
As Countess Mathilde Von Braun
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Kismet1944
As Karsha
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Man I Love1946
As Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Tonight and Every Night1945
As May Tolliver
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Brasher Doubloon1947
As Mrs. Murdock
TMDb 6.0 / 10
They Got Me Covered1943
As Gypsy Woman
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Les Miserables1952
As Madame Bonnet
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Saratoga Trunk1945
As Sophie Bellop
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Tall Target1951
As Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
TMDb 6.9 / 10
San Antonio1945
As Henrietta
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Main Street to Broadway1953
As Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Love Crazy1941
As Mrs. Cooper
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Belle of the Yukon1944
As Viola Chase
TMDb 5.8 / 10
River Lady1948
As Ma Dunnegan
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Slightly Dangerous1943
As Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Lullaby of Broadway1951
As Mrs. Anna Hubbell
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Moon and Sixpence1942
As Tiare Johnson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The San Francisco Story1952
As Sadie
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Cluny Brown1946
As Dowager at Ames's Party
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Girl from Jones Beach1949
As Miss Emma Shoemaker
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Claudia and David1946
As Nancy Riddle
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Tuttles of Tahiti1942
As Emily
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Father Takes the Air1951
As Minerva Bobbin
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Winter Meeting1948
As Mrs. Castle
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Judge Steps Out1947
As Chita
TMDb 6.8 / 10
His Butler's Sister1943
As Lady Sloughberry
TMDb 7.2 / 10
My Heart Belongs to Daddy1942
As Mrs. Saunders
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Havana Rose1951
As Mrs. Fillmore
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Out of This World1945
As Harriet Pringle
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Chocolate Soldier1941
As Madame Helene
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Time, The Place and The Girl1946
As Mme. Lucia Cassel
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Love and Learn1947
As Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Belle of Old Mexico1950
As Nellie Chatfield
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Hudson's Bay1940
As Duchess (scenes deleted)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven1948
As Mandy
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Mexican Spitfire at Sea1942
As Mrs. Baldwin
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Strange Alibi1941
As Katie
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Road Show1941
As Mrs. Newton
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Calling All Husbands1940
As Emmie Trippe
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Mister Big1943
As Mrs. Mary Davis
TMDb 3.8 / 10
The Inside Story1948
As Geraldine Atherton
TMDb 6.6 / 10
We Were Dancing1942
As Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Tahiti Nights1944
As Queen Liliha
TMDb 9.0 / 10
County Fair1950
As Nora 'Ma' Ryan
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb