Florence Lake
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 27, 1904, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Died
- April 11, 1980
- Movies
- 94
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1975 | Long Way Home | Grandma Boggs |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Lee Sister #2 |
| 1974 | Happy Anniversary and Goodbye | Mrs. Foster |
| 1974 | Welcome To Arrow Beach | Landlady |
| 1974 | Live Again, Die Again | Old Friend |
| 1973 | The Girl Most Likely To... | Clerk |
| 1973 | Frasier, the Sensuous Lion | Old Woman on Porch |
| 1973 | Time to Run | |
| 1971 | Banyon | Elderly Waitress |
| 1970 | Savage Intruder | Mildred |
| 1967 | The Big Mouth | Assaulted Lady (uncredited) |
| 1954 | The Desperado | Mrs. Cameron |
| 1954 | She Couldn't Say No | Mrs. Gruman |
| 1953 | The Flaming Urge | Mrs. Binger |
| 1952 | The Maverick | Grandma Watson |
| 1952 | Fargo | Maggie |
| 1952 | Man from the Black Hills | Martha |
| 1952 | As We Forgive | |
| 1948 | Contest Crazy | Florence Kennedy |
| 1948 | Dig That Gold | Florence Kennedy |
| 1948 | Brother Knows Best | Florence Kennedy |
| 1947 | Do or Diet | Florence - Edgar's Wife |
| 1946 | I'll Build It Myself | Florence |
| 1946 | Motor Maniacs | Florence Kennedy |
| 1946 | Little Giant | Housewife (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Riverboat Rhythm | Penelope Beeler Witherspoon |
| 1946 | Trouble or Nothing | Florence, Edgar's Wife |
| 1945 | The Big Beef | Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | You Drive Me Crazy | Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | It's Your Move | Mrs. Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | What, No Cigarettes | Florence Kennedy |
| 1944 | Hi, Beautiful | Mrs. Bisbee |
| 1944 | Feather Your Nest | Florence |
| 1944 | San Diego I Love You | Miss Lake |
| 1944 | Goin' to Town | Abigail |
| 1944 | Her Primitive Man | Miss Crims |
| 1944 | Radio Rampage | Florence |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Doris - Jean's Roommate |
| 1942 | Duck Soup | Florence |
| 1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Phoebe Quentin |
| 1942 | Four Jacks and a Jill | Counter Girl (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Fifth Avenue Girl | Slavey (uncredited) |
| 1939 | When Tomorrow Comes | Waitress (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Bachelor Mother | Oliver's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Stagecoach | Nancy Whitney (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Pacific Liner | Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Convicts at Large | Hattie |
| 1938 | Next Time I Marry | Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Rebellious Daughters | Dizzy |
| 1938 | Law of the Underworld | Mrs. Billy Winters |
| 1938 | Condemned Women | Prisoner |
| 1938 | Ears of Experience | Florence |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Carol Towner |
| 1937 | Edgar & Goliath | Florence, Edgar's wife |
| 1937 | Love in a Bungalow | The 'Ga-Ga' Prospect |
| 1937 | Quality Street | Henrietta Turnbull |
| 1936 | To Mary - with Love | Salesgirl |
| 1936 | Women Are Trouble | Clara |
| 1936 | Dummy Ache | Florence |
| 1936 | Will Power | Florence Kennedy |
| 1936 | Muss 'em Up | Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Gasoloons | Florence Kennedy |
| 1935 | Two-Fisted | Doris Pritchard |
| 1935 | In Love at 40 | Florence Kennedy |
| 1935 | Edgar Hamlet | Florence |
| 1935 | Sock Me to Sleep | Florence |
| 1935 | Brick-a-Brac | Florence |
| 1934 | Shivers | Florence |
| 1934 | Poisoned Ivory | Florence Kennedy |
| 1934 | A Blasted Event | Florence |
| 1934 | The Winnah! | Florence |
| 1934 | Wrong Direction | Florence, Edgar's Wife |
| 1934 | Love on a Ladder | Florence |
| 1933 | What Fur | Florence |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Dizzy |
| 1933 | Midshipman Jack | Sally Withers |
| 1933 | Quiet Please! | Florence Kennedy |
| 1933 | Art in the Raw | |
| 1932 | Fish Feathers | Florence Kennedy |
| 1932 | Giggle Water | Florence |
| 1932 | Westward Passage | Elmer's Wife |
| 1932 | Night World | Ms. Smith (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Ladies of the Jury | Mrs. Dace (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Autograph Seeker |
| 1931 | Hollywood Halfbacks | |
| 1931 | Secret Service | Caroline Mitford |
| 1931 | The Drums of Jeopardy | Anya Karlov |
| 1930 | Romance | Susan Van Tuyl |
| 1930 | The Rogue Song | Nadja |
| 1929 | Waltzing Around | George's Wife |
| 1929 | Thru Different Eyes | Myrtle |
| 1929 | New Year's Eve | Pearl |
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