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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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29 December 1945
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers.
23 May 1941
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
12 October 1953
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home.
17 August 1951
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
02 June 1946
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
09 March 1948
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening.
27 December 1940
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
07 April 1948
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
01 May 1942
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed.
01 July 1943
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
01 October 1944
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
17 June 1951
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
01 September 1947
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures.
01 April 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
26 March 1951
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan.
27 October 1942
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do.
26 December 1946
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca.
16 July 1949
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl".
08 December 1949
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
07 November 1942
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
23 March 1940
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier.
01 March 1950
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister.
09 January 1945
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
19 April 1941
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
25 February 1946
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
27 December 1944
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
05 August 1943
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy.
11 April 1941
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store.
28 May 1943
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
10 November 1953
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
14 March 1948
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping.
13 July 1945
An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract.
15 December 1947
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
02 May 1947
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
26 December 1946
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home.
07 September 1940
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
04 March 1943
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her.
26 November 1943
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
05 December 1940
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko.
18 February 1941
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity.
25 January 1946
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
07 July 1950
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house.
20 January 1949
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
06 February 1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection.
13 March 1942
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
01 November 1941
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman and attempts to make Maria flirt with him - to test her loyalty to him - as the Russian, Karl makes a vigorous attempt to seduce Maria.
05 November 1948
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist.
23 June 1944
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul.
21 November 1945
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
25 December 1948
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
15 September 1951
Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia.
20 May 1948
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver.
15 February 1946
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr.
30 July 1950
"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding.
16 July 1948
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright.
11 May 1952
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians.
30 April 1942
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
28 December 1944
During World War Two, an American band leader, Jack (Dave O'Brien) arrives on a Tahitian island , and via a chain of unexpected events, soon finds himself soon about to be betrothed to Luana (Jinx Falkenburg), the princess of a local tribe.
