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Florence Bates, nascuda Florence Rabe (San Antonio, Texas, 15 d'abril de 1888 - Burbank, Califòrnia, 31 de gener de 1954), va ser una actriu nord-americana de personatges de cinema i teatre que sovint interpretava personatges de grans dames en papers secundaris.

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

Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles.

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 theatre 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 vain dowager Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940).

Bates appeared in more than sixty films over the course of the next thirteen 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.

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Florence Bates (* 15. April 1888 in San Antonio, Texas; † 31. Januar 1954 in Burbank, Kalifornien; eigentlich Florence Rabe) war eine US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin. Mitte der 1930er Jahre wollte sich Bates mit über 40 schließlich auch als Schauspielerin beweisen. Im Pasadena Playhouse war sie fortan mehrfach auf der Bühne zu sehen. Als sie die Rolle der Miss Bates in einer Theateradaption von Jane Austens Emma spielte, nahm sie, abgeleitet von ihrer Rolle, den Künstlernamen Florence Bates an. 1940 hatte sie ihren ersten nennenswerten Leinwandauftritt als eitle Mrs. Van Hopper in Alfred Hitchcocks Rebecca neben Joan Fontaine und Laurence Olivier. In den folgenden 13 Jahren war sie als Charakterdarstellerin in mehr als 60 Filmen zu sehen. Zumeist spielte sie matronenhafte und wohlhabende Damen wie in den beiden Lubitsch-Filmkomödien Ein himmlischer Sünder (1943) und Cluny Brown auf Freiersfüßen (1946).

Nach dem Tod ihres zweiten Mannes im Jahr 1951 wurde Bates’ eigene Gesundheit zunehmend schlechter. Sie trat dennoch in Fernsehserien wie I Love Lucy (1952) auf.

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