Birthname: Florence Rabe
| Sign | Aries |
| Born | Apr 15, 1888 San Antonio, TX |
| Died | Jan 31, 1954 Burbank, CA |
| Age | Died at 65 |
Florence Bates | |
| Job | Actress |
| Years active | 1937-1953 |
| Known for | Meddlesome matrons, monstrous matriarchs |
| Top Roles | Sophie Bellop, Mme. Dilyovska, Madame Elise Chavez, Mrs. Castle, Florence Dana Moorhead |
| 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.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).HONORS and AWARDS:
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Florence Bates BlogHub Articles:
Florence Bates: IT’S A GRAND FEELING!
By Christy Putnam on Nov 10, 2013 From Christy PutnamFlorence Bates: IT’S A GRAND FEELING! My Interview with Ann Hamilton, Florence Bates’ Granddaughter, and Rachel Hamilton, Florence Bates’ Great-Granddaughter… Ever watch a film with Florence Bates in it? If you did, you probably had a difficult time taking your eyes off of... Read full article
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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.
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about Rebecca's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!
Clio Dulaine: If you mean to harm me, she'll be likely to kill you. She'll make a little figure like you out of soap and she'd stick little pinns into it, and you'd sicken and die.
Sophie Bellop: Not me. I've had pins stuck in me all my life and knives and everything up to pickaxes.
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