Personal Info
Florence Rabe
Florence Bates
Acting
Biography
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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 Playho…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Main Street to Broadway
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Paris Model
as Nora Sullivan
Les Miserables
as Madame Bonnet
The San Francisco Story
as Sadie
The Tall Target
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Lullaby of Broadway
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
Father Takes the Air
as Minerva Bobbin
Havana Rose
as Mrs. Fillmore
The Second Woman
as Amelia Foster
Belle of Old Mexico
as Nellie Chatfield
