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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.
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Jan 5, 2017 · REBECCA, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1940) Bates was close to 50 when she made her acting debut on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1937. Although she had an uncredited role in that same year’s The Man in Blue, she officially made her debut in Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning film of Daphne du Maurier’s best-seller.
Apr 15, 1888 Birth Place: San Antonio, Texas, USA. Biography. Florence Bates didn't set out to become an actress; from her degree in mathematics to her career as an attorney, performing seemed to be the farthest thing from her mind.
Alfred Hitchcock cast Bates as Mrs. Van Hopper in his moody 1939 drama "Rebecca," establishing her as a go-to actress for eccentric, high-society characters in dozens of films throughout the 1940s and early '50s.
Biography by AllMovie [+] American actress Florence Bates had been a moderately successful lawyer for two decades when, as a lark, she started acting at California's Pasadena Playhouse in the mid 1930s. After playing a small role in the 1937 film Man In Blue (1937), Bates was "officially" discovered by Hollywood when she was cast as ...
Florence Bates , was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.
