Bates, Florence (1888–1954)
Bates, Florence (1888–1954)
American actress and lawyer. Born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888, in San Antonio, Texas; died Jan 31, 1954, in Burbank, California; m. Will Jacoby, 1929 (died 1951).
Became the 1st woman lawyer in Texas (1914); at 47, moved to CA and joined the Pasadena Playhouse; made film debut in Hitchcock's Rebecca, followed by Kitty Foyle, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Chocolate Soldier, We Were Dancing, The Moon and Sixpence, Heaven Can Wait, Since You Went Away, Kismet, Tonight and Every Night, Saratoga Trunk, Cluny Brown, The Diary of a Chambermaid, Claudia and David, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I Remember Mama, A Letter to Three Wives, Portrait of Jennie, On the Town, Lullaby of Broadway and Les Miserables.
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