Florence Lake
Born November 27, 1904 (Age: 121)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
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as Mrs. Foster
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Age: 69
Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974
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as Landlady
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Age: 69
Live Again, Die Again
1974
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as Old Friend
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Age: 69
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
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as Clerk
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Age: 68
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
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as Old Woman on Porch
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Age: 68
Time to Run
1973
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Age: 68
Banyon
1971
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as Elderly Waitress
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Age: 66
The Desperado
1954
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as Mrs. Cameron
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Age: 49
She Couldn't Say No
1954
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as Mrs. Gruman
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Age: 49
The Flaming Urge
1953
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as Mrs. Binger
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Age: 48
The Big Beef
1945
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as Florence Kennedy
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Age: 40
You Drive Me Crazy
1945
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as Florence Kennedy
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Age: 40
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It's Your Move
1945
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as Mrs. Florence Kennedy
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Age: 40
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What, No Cigarettes
1945
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as Florence Kennedy
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Age: 40
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Duck Soup
1942
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as Florence
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Age: 38
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
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as Phoebe Quentin
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Age: 37
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
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as Counter Girl (uncredited)
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Age: 37
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Fish Feathers
1932
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as Florence Kennedy
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Age: 28
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Giggle Water
1932
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as Florence
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Age: 27
Westward Passage
1932
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as Elmer's Wife
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Age: 27
Night World
1932
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as Ms. Smith (uncredited)
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Age: 27
Ladies of the Jury
1932
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as Mrs. Dace (uncredited)
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Age: 27
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Running Hollywood
1932
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as Autograph Seeker
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Age: 27
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Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
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as
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Age: 27
Secret Service
1931
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as Caroline Mitford
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Age: 26
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
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as Anya Karlov
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Age: 26
Romance
1930
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as Susan Van Tuyl
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Age: 25
The Rogue Song
1930
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as Nadja
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Age: 25