Florence Bates | |
Job | Actress |
Years active | 1937-1953 |
Known for | Meddlesome matrons, monstrous matriarchs |
Top Roles | Sophie Bellop, Mme. Dilyovska, Dowager at Ames' Party, Florence Dana Moorhead, Mrs. Anna Hubbell |
Top Genres | Comedy, Romance, Drama, Musical, Film Adaptation, Crime |
Top Topics | Book-Based, Romance (Comic), Romance (Drama) |
Top Collaborators | Jack L. Warner (Producer), David Butler (Director), David O. Selznick (Producer), David Hempstead (Producer) |
Shares birthday with | Wallace Reid, John Williams, Harvey Lembeck see more.. |
Florence Bates Overview:
Character actress, Florence Bates, was born Florence Rabe on Apr 15, 1888 in San Antonio, TX. Bates appeared in over 75 film and television roles. Her best known films include Mr. Lucky, Since You Went Away, Saratoga Trunk, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I Remember Mama, Portrait of Jennie, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town and Rebecca. Bates died at the age of 65 on Jan 31, 1954 in Burbank, CA .
MINI BIO:
Formidable was about the only word for the dominant, galleon-shaped Florence Bates who was much in demand in the 1940s. Her matrons were meddlesome and her matriarchs monstrous. She was once a lawyer (how the opposition must have suffered), but her Edythe Van Hopper in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" set her galloping through a gallery of gorgons and gargoyles. Died from a heart attack.
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Florence Bates Quotes:
Mrs. Bunce: Painting things? Women? Women in the...
Mrs. Jekes: Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the... "
Mrs. Bunce: [flustered] No, of course not.
Sophie Bellop: [to Clio] I know my way around this world. I know what it is to be very rich, and I know what it is to be very poor. I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury!
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about Rebecca's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!
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