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      Florence Bates

      Florence Bates

      Highest Rated: 100% Love Crazy (1941)

      Lowest Rated: 80% The Man I Love (1946)

      Birthday: Apr 15, 1888

      Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA

      Florence Bates didn't set out to become an actress; from her degree in mathematics to her career as an attorney, performing seemed to be the farthest thing from her mind. But after moving to Los Angeles to open a bakery, she auditioned on a whim for the role of Miss Bates in a theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma," nabbed the part, and found a second home on the stage during the 1930s. Alfred Hitchcock cast Bates as Mrs. Van Hopper in his moody 1939 drama "Rebecca," establishing her as a go-to actress for eccentric, high-society characters in dozens of films throughout the 1940s and early '50s.

      Highest rated movies

      The Tall Target
      A Letter to Three Wives
      I Remember Mama
      Mr. Lucky
      Love Crazy
      Rebecca
      On the Town
      Portrait of Jennie

      Photos

      THE TUTTLES OF TAHITI, from left: Florence Bates, Charles Laughton, 1942 TEXAS, BROOKLYN AND HEAVEN, Florence Bates, 1948 THE TUTTLES OF TAHITI, wearing leis from left: Florence Bates, Charles Laughton, 1942 THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, Florence Bates, Burgess Meredith, 1946 THE TUTTLES OF TAHITI, from left: Jon Hall, Charles Laughton, Florence Bates consult their scripts, 1942 WE WERE DANCING, from left: Melvyn Douglas, Norma Shearer, Lee Bowman, Florence Bates, Barlowe Borland, 1942 LOVE CRAZY, from left: William Powell, Florence Bates, 1941 LOVE CRAZY, Florence Bates, William Powell, 1941 DESIRE ME, Greer Garson, Florence Bates, 1947 LOVE CRAZY, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Bates, 1941 THE SECOND WOMAN, Betsy Drake, Robert Young, Morris Carnovsky, Florence Bates, 1951 LOVE CRAZY, William Powell, Florence Bates, Myrna Loy, Vladimir Sokoloff, 1941 TAHITI NIGHTS, from left: Pedro de Cordoba, Florence Bates, 1944 CALLING ALL HUSBANDS, Florence Bates, Ernest Truex, 1940 CALLING ALL HUSBANDS, Florence Bates, Ernest Truex, Lucille Fairbanks, George Reeves, 1940 CALLING ALL HUSBANDS, George Reeves, Lucille Fairbanks, Florence Bates, Ernest Truex, George Tobias, 1940 SAN ANTONIO, Alexis Smith, Errol Flynn, Florence Bates, 1945 LOVE CRAZY, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Florence Bates, 1941 SAN ANTONIO, Florence Bates, S.Z. Sakall, Alexis Smith, Errol Flynn, 1945 HAVANA ROSE, from left: Fortunio Bonanova, Rosa Turich, Estelita Rodriquez, Florence Bates, 1951
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Paris Model Mrs. Nora Sullivan (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet 78% Lullaby of Broadway Mrs. Anna Hubbell (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 48% The Second Woman Amelia Foster (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Father Takes the Air Minerva Bobbin (Character) - 1951
      100% 67% The Tall Target Mrs. Charlotte Alsop (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet No Score Yet County Fair Nora "Ma" Ryan (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 36% The Girl From Jones Beach Miss Emma Shoemaker (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Judge Steps Out Chita (Character) - 1949
      100% 86% A Letter to Three Wives Mrs. Manleigh (Character) - 1949
      93% 83% On the Town Madame Dilyovska (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inside Story Geraldine Atherton (Character) - 1948
      88% 85% Portrait of Jennie Mrs. Jekes (landlady) (Character) - 1948
      100% 83% I Remember Mama Florence Dana Moorhead (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet 40% My Dear Secretary Horrible Hannah Reeve (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet River Lady Ma Dunnegan (Character) - 1948
      82% 80% The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Mrs. Griswold (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Love and Learn Mrs. Davis (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Time, the Place and the Girl Mme. Lucia Cassel (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Claudia and David Nancy Riddle (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet 23% Whistle Stop Molly Veech (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet 55% Diary of a Chambermaid Rose (Character) - 1946
      80% 75% The Man I Love Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited) (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet 56% Saratoga Trunk Sophie Bellop (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet 65% San Antonio Henrietta (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet 17% Belle of the Yukon Viola Chase (Character) - 1944
      83% 78% The Mask of Dimitrios Madame Elise Chavez (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet 43% Kismet Karsha (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Tahiti Nights Queen Liliha (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet 73% Slightly Dangerous Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke (Character) - 1943
      100% 70% Mr. Lucky Mrs. Van Every (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet 60% His Butler's Sister Lady Sloughberry (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mexican Spitfire at Sea Mrs. Baldwin (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet 29% The Chocolate Soldier Madame "Pugsie" Helene (Character) - 1941
      100% 83% Love Crazy Mrs. Cooper (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet 0% Road Show Mrs. Newton (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Strange Alibi Katie (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet 39% The Son of Monte Cristo Countess Mathilde Von Braun (Character) - 1940
      98% 92% Rebecca Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Calling All Husbands Mrs. Emmie Dolittle Trippe (Character) - 1940

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet 97% I Love Lucy Mrs. Pettebone (Guest Star) 1952