Florence Bates Florence Bates was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.Life and career Born in San Antonio, Texas , the second child of Jewish immigrants, Bates showed musical talent as a child, but a hand injury inhibited her from continuing her piano studies. In 1906, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in mathematics , after which she taught school. In 1909, she met and married her first husband and gave up her career to raise their daughter. When that marriage ended in divorce, she began to study law and, in 1914 at the age of 26, passed the bar examination. She was the first female lawyer in her home state and practiced law for four years in San Antonio .After the death of her parents, Bates left the legal profession to help her sister operate their father's antique business. She became a bilingual radio commentator whose program was designed to foster good relations between the United States and Mexico . In 1929, following the stock market crash and the death of her sister, Florence closed the antique shop and married a wealthy businessman, William F. Jacoby. When he lost his fortune, the couple moved to Los Angeles and opened a bakery, which proved a successful venture. They sold it in the 1940s. , Florence Bates and Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca 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 theater 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 widowed Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca . Bates appeared in more than 60 films over the course of the next 13 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 .Selected filmography The Man in Blue - Woman Rebecca - Mrs. Van Hopper Calling All Husbands - Emmie Trippe The Son of Monte Cristo - Countess Mathilde Von Braun Kitty Foyle - Customer Hudson's Bay - Duchess Road Show - Mrs. Newton The Devil and Miss Jones - 'Store Shopper' Strange Alibi - Katie Love Crazy - Mrs. Cooper The Gay Falcon - The Chocolate Soldier - Madame Helene Kathleen - Woman Customer at Shoner's Store Mexican Spitfire at Sea - Mrs. Baldwin The Tuttles of Tahiti - Emily We Were Dancing - Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip The Moon and Sixpence - Tiare Johnson My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mrs. Saunders They Got Me Covered - Gypsy Woman Slightly Dangerous - Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke Mister Big - Mrs. Mary Davis Mr. Lucky - Mrs. Van Every Heaven Can Wait - Mrs. Edna Craig His Butler's Sister - Lady Sloughberry Since You Went Away - Hungry Woman on Train The Mask of Dimitrios - Madame Elise Chavez Kismet - Karsha Belle of the Yukon - Viola Chase Tahiti Nights - Queen Liliha Tonight and Every Night - May Tolliver Out of This World - Harriet Pringle Saratoga Trunk - Sophie Bellop San Antonio - Henrietta Whistle Stop - Molly Veech The Diary of a Chambermaid - Rose Claudia and David - Nancy Riddle Cluny Brown - Dowager at Ames' Party The Time, the Place and the Girl - Mme. Lucia Cassel The Man I Love - Mrs. Thorpe The Brasher Doubloon - Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock Love and Learn - Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Mrs. Irma Griswold Desire Me - Mrs.Lannie The Judge Steps Out - Chita I Remember Mama - Florence Dana Moorhead The Inside Story - Geraldine Atherton Winter Meeting - Mrs. Castle River Lady - Ma Dunnegan Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven - Mandy My Dear Secretary - Horrible Hannah Reeve Portrait of Jennie - Mrs. Jekes A Letter to Three Wives - Mrs. Manleigh The Girl from Jones Beach - Miss Emma Shoemaker On the Town - Madame Dilyovska Belle of Old Mexico - Nellie Chatfield The Second Woman - Amelia Foster County Fair - Nora 'Ma' Ryan Lullaby of Broadway - Mrs. Anna Hubbell Father Takes the Air - Minerva Bobbin The Tall Target - Mrs. Charlotte Alsop Havana Rose - Mrs. Fillmore The San Francisco Story - Sadie Les Misérables - Madame Bonnet Main Street to Broadway - Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence Paris Model - Mrs. Nora Sullivan
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