Florence Lake
Acting
Born November 27, 1904 · Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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.
Films (93)
Long Way Home
1975
The Day of the Locust
1975
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974
Live Again, Die Again
1974
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
Time to Run
1973
Banyon
1971
Savage Intruder
1970
The Big Mouth
1967
The Desperado
1954
She Couldn't Say No
1954
The Flaming Urge
1953
The Maverick
1952
Fargo
1952
Man from the Black Hills
1952
As We Forgive
1952
Contest Crazy
1948
Dig That Gold
1948
Brother Knows Best
1948
Do or Diet
1947
I'll Build It Myself
1946
Motor Maniacs
1946
Little Giant
1946
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
Trouble or Nothing
1946
The Big Beef
1945
You Drive Me Crazy
1945
It's Your Move
1945
What, No Cigarettes
1945
Hi, Beautiful
1944
Feather Your Nest
1944
San Diego I Love You
1944
Goin' to Town
1944
Her Primitive Man
1944
Radio Rampage
1944
Crash Dive
1943
Duck Soup
1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
When Tomorrow Comes
1939
Bachelor Mother
1939
Union Pacific
1939
Stagecoach
1939
Pacific Liner
1939
Convicts at Large
1938
Next Time I Marry
1938
Rebellious Daughters
1938
Law of the Underworld
1938
Condemned Women
1938
Ears of Experience
1938
I Met My Love Again
1938
Edgar & Goliath
1937
Love in a Bungalow
1937
Quality Street
1937
To Mary - with Love
1936
Women Are Trouble
1936
Dummy Ache
1936
Will Power
1936
Muss 'em Up
1936
Gasoloons
1936
Two-Fisted
1935
In Love at 40
1935
Edgar Hamlet
1935
Brick-a-Brac
1935
Shivers
1934
Poisoned Ivory
1934
A Blasted Event
1934
The Winnah!
1934
Wrong Direction
1934
Love on a Ladder
1934
What Fur
1933
Only Yesterday
1933
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
Midshipman Jack
1933
Quiet Please!
1933
Art in the Raw
1933
Fish Feathers
1932
Giggle Water
1932
Westward Passage
1932
Night World
1932
Ladies of the Jury
1932
Running Hollywood
1932
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
Secret Service
1931
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
Romance
1930
The Rogue Song
1930
Waltzing Around
1929
Thru Different Eyes
1929
New Year's Eve
1929