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Actor Born: April 15, 1888 in San Antonio, TX Death: January 31, 1954 in Burbank, CA Biography: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 vainglorious dowager Mrs. Van Hopper in "Alfred Hitchcock"'s Oscar-winning "Rebecca" (1940). From that point onward, Bates became one of Hollywood's favorite "society dragons," most effectively cast in comedies like "Heaven Can Wait" (1943), as one of "Don Ameche"'s hell-bound old flames, and in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1948), as "Danny Kaye"'s terrifying future mother-in-law. Her most significant "straight" part was in "I Remember Mama" (1948), as the forbiddingly famous author Florence Dana Morehead, whom "Irene Dunne", as Mama, timidly approaches on behalf of Dunne's... Full Biography
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