From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Florence Bates(1888년생, San Antonio, Texas, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 Strange Alibi, My Dear Secretary, Love Crazy가 있으며, 그 외에도 I Love Lucy, Four Star Playhouse, 레베카, Dick Tracy, 춤추는 대뉴욕, 아이 리멤버 마마, Kitty Foyle, Kismet, 세 부인, 제니의 초상, 천국은 기다려준다, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 1953년 Paris Model에서 Nora Sullivan 역을 맡았다. 1953년 Main Street to Broadway에서 Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence 역을 맡았다. 1952년 Four Star Playhouse에서 Ottilie 역을 맡았다.