Florence Lake

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

121

Movies

Born: November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980
From: Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts. Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in "dumb" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Claverton telephone operator in Lassie. Lake played the role for the entire ten year "farm seasons" of the show (1954–1964), thus becoming the Lassie player with the longest tour of duty on the series. She played the role of Mama Angel in a 1957 episode of the The Lone Ranger TV series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw". She also appeared in the first color episode of the TV series Superman in 1957 as a cave woman. In her later years, Lake appeared as Elvira Norton on an episode of Dragnet entitled "Frauds". She also played a blind date for the character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, "Lou's First Date". Her last roles were in the TV series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.

Works

95 films

Stagecoach

19397.6

Quality Street

19375.8

The Day of the Locust

19756.4

Union Pacific

19396.7

The Big Mouth

19675.3

Westward Passage

19326.3

Fifth Avenue Girl

19397.0

The Girl Most Likely To...

19736.6

Crash Dive

19436.4

Radio Rampage

194410.0

Only Yesterday

19337.1

Savage Intruder

19705.3

Romance

19306.5

I Met My Love Again

19386.0

Dummy Ache

19365.5

To Mary - with Love

19365.7

What Fur

19338.0

When Tomorrow Comes

19395.4

Law of the Underworld

19385.8

Her Primitive Man

19447.5

Little Giant

19465.3

Edgar Hamlet

193510.0

Ladies of the Jury

19326.8

Banyon

19719.0

Love on a Ladder

19343.7

Man from the Black Hills

19529.0

Motor Maniacs

19467.0

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

19745.2

Bachelor Mother

19397.2

Four Jacks and a Jill

19426.5

The Flaming Urge

19537.0

Giggle Water

19329.0

Long Way Home

1975

She Couldn't Say No

19545.7

Condemned Women

19387.3

Muss 'em Up

19366.2

The Desperado

19547.2

Welcome to Arrow Beach

19745.2

Poisoned Ivory

19349.0

I'll Build It Myself

19469.0

Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath

20269.0

Live Again, Die Again

19747.8

Duck Soup

19429.0

Fargo

19526.6

Pacific Liner

19395.5

The Drums of Jeopardy

19315.4

Sock Me to Sleep

19359.0

Fish Feathers

19329.0

Feather Your Nest

19449.0

Shivers

193410.0

San Diego I Love You

19446.8

The Maverick

19529.0

Next Time I Marry

19387.2

Scattergood Survives a Murder

19425.9

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

19335.3

Night World

19326.8

Frasier, the Sensuous Lion

19736.5

Thru Different Eyes

19298.0

Running Hollywood

19329.0

The Big Beef

19457.0

Rebellious Daughters

19386.0

Gasoloons

19367.5

Riverboat Rhythm

19466.3

Brick-a-Brac

193510.0

It's Your Move

19457.0

Secret Service

19316.7

Women Are Trouble

19367.0

Time to Run

19735.0

New Year's Eve

19297.0

Quiet Please!

19336.0

Hi, Beautiful

19449.8

Waltzing Around

19297.0

The Rogue Song

19306.5

Midshipman Jack

19338.0

Hollywood Halfbacks

19319.0

Goin' to Town

19449.0

Edgar & Goliath

19378.0

In Love at 40

19357.0

Two-Fisted

19358.5

Do or Diet

19478.0

The Winnah!

19347.0

As We Forgive

1952

You Drive Me Crazy

19459.0

Art in the Raw

19333.3

Love in a Bungalow

193710.0

What, No Cigarettes

19457.5

Convicts at Large

19387.0

Dig That Gold

19489.8

Wrong Direction

19349.0

A Blasted Event

193410.0

Contest Crazy

19489.0

Will Power

19367.0

Trouble or Nothing

194610.0

Ears of Experience

193810.0

Brother Knows Best

19488.0