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Florence Bates is a Actor American born on 13 april 1888 at San Antonio (USA)

Florence Bates

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Birth name Florence Rabe
Nationality USA
Birth 13 april 1888 at San Antonio (USA)
Death 31 january 1954 (at 65 years) at Burbank (USA)

Florence Bates (April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme de Florence Bates, elle commence une carrière au cinéma sur le tard, participant à un premier film en 1937 (un petit rôle non crédité), à 49 ans. Elle est ensuite choisie par Alfred Hitchcock pour le rôle de M Edythe Van Hopper (l'un de ses plus connus) dans Rebecca, son deuxième film, sorti en 1940. En tout, elle apparaît dans soixante-cinq films américains, le dernier en 1953.

À la télévision, elle collabore à sept séries, de 1949 à 1953.

Best films

Portrait of Jennie (1948)
(Actress)

Usually with

Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(8 films)
Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(7 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(6 films)
Gino Corrado
Gino Corrado
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Florence Bates (59 films)

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Actress

Les Miserables, 1h41
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell
Roles Madame Bonnet
Rating67% 3.3895553.3895553.3895553.3895553.389555
The film greatly differs from the novel. Entire episodes and many characters are dropped, including the Thénardiers and Enjolras. The character of Robert is entirely new.
The San Francisco Story, 1h20
Directed by Robert Parrish
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer, Richard Erdman, Florence Bates, Onslow Stevens
Roles Sadie
Rating59% 2.997262.997262.997262.997262.99726
Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) is a 19th-century miner in 1856. To stem the activities of crooks and con artists, newspaper editor Capt. Jim Martin (Onslow Stevens) organizes a group of peace-keeping vigilantes. Nelson, an old friend of Martin's, arrives in the Golden Gate city to help out by ousting crooked politician Andrew Cain (Sidney Blackmer).
Lullaby of Broadway, 1h32
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, Florence Bates
Roles Mrs. Anna Hubbell
Rating66% 3.3431353.3431353.3431353.3431353.343135
Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling from England to pay a surprise visit to her mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, who lives in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, however, Jessica's alcoholism has reduced her to singing in a Greenwich Village saloon, and the mansion actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell and his wife.
The Tall Target, 1h18
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson, Ruby Dee, Richard Steven Rauber
Roles Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Rating71% 3.5938553.5938553.5938553.5938553.593855
New York Police Sergeant John Kennedy once guarded Abraham Lincoln for 48 hours while he was campaigning for President of the United States, and came away deeply impressed by the man. Kennedy has infiltrated a cabal and discovered that an assassination attempt will be made as the president-elect makes his way by train via Baltimore to Washington, DC. His boss, Superintendent Simon G. Stroud (an uncredited Tom Powers), dismisses the threat as "hogwash", as does Caleb Jeffers (Adolphe Menjou), a militia colonel with whom Stroud is meeting. Kennedy resigns on the spot to try to foil the conspirators on his own. Having already sent a copy of his report to the Secretary of War, he telegrams Lincoln, urgently requesting a meeting in Baltimore.
Havana Rose, 1h17
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Estelita Rodríguez, Bill Williams, Hugh Herbert, Florence Bates, Fortunio Bonanova, Tom Kennedy
Roles Mrs. Fillmore
Rating66% 3.338993.338993.338993.338993.33899
The daughter of a Latin-American ambassador in Washington D.C. accidentally wrecks her father's attempts to secure an important loan agreement. She does everything she can to try to put things right.
The Second Woman, 1h31
Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Amelia Foster
Rating62% 3.142333.142333.142333.142333.14233
This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). He is a successful architect who is tormented because his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Colahan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-art cliff-top home he had designed for his bride-to-be.
Belle of Old Mexico, 1h10
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Estelita Rodríguez, Robert Rockwell, Dorothy Patrick, Thurston Hall, Florence Bates, Dave Willock
Roles Nellie Chatfield
Rating64% 3.20073.20073.20073.20073.2007
An American World War II veteran, fulfills a promise he made to one of his dying comrades by going to Mexico to adopt his daughter. When he gets there, she turns out to not to be the little girl he had imagined but an attractive young woman. He has extreme difficulty convincing his fiancée and employers that their relationship is entirely innocent.
A Letter to Three Wives, 1h38
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Hobart Cavanaugh, Paul Douglas
Roles Mrs. Manleigh
Rating76% 3.8447653.8447653.8447653.8447653.844765
Just as they are about to take a group of underprivileged children on a riverboat ride and picnic, Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain), Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern), and Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell) receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands. She, however, leaves them in suspense as to which one. All three marriages are shown in flashback to be strained.
On the Town, 1h38
Directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Judy Holliday
Roles Madame Dilyovska
Rating72% 3.64763.64763.64763.64763.6476
As three sailors – Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie – begin their shore leave, Gabey falls in love with the picture of "Miss Turnstiles", who is actually Ivy Smith. The sailors race around New York attempting to find her in the brief period they have ("New York, New York").
The Girl from Jones Beach, 1h18
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Lola Albright, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Henry Travers
Roles Miss Emma Shoemaker
Rating61% 3.097953.097953.097953.097953.09795
Chuck Donovan is a not so successful agent in New York who is hired by some television producers for a special job. He is to find the real identity of the woman who modeled for commercial sketch artist Bob Randolph as he created the famous "Randolph Girl". No one besides Randolph, not even the artist's secretary, Miss Brooks, has ever met the woman.
Portrait of Jennie, 1h26
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Peinture, Ghost films
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Brian Keith, Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Florence Bates
Roles Mrs. Jekes
Rating75% 3.794763.794763.794763.794763.79476
In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park, New York. She is wearing old-fashioned clothing. He makes a sketch of her from memory which involves him with art dealer Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), who sees potential in him. This inspires him to paint a portrait of Jennie.
River Lady
River Lady (1948)
, 1h18
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Helena Carter, Lloyd Gough, Florence Bates
Roles Ma Dunnegan
Rating59% 2.998432.998432.998432.998432.99843
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict exists between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling riverboat, River Lady, owned by a beautiful woman called Sequin.