Florence Lake
Acting
1904-11-27 · 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.
Filmography
Long Way Home
1975 · Movie
The Day of the Locust
1975 · Movie
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974 · Movie
The Rockford Files
1974 · Series
Police Woman
1974 · Series
Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974 · Movie
Live Again, Die Again
1974 · Movie
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973 · Movie
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973 · Movie
Time to Run
1973 · Movie
Banyon
1972 · Series
Emergency!
1972 · Series
Nichols
1971 · Series
Banyon
1971 · Movie
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Series
The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970 · Series
Savage Intruder
1970 · Movie
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969 · Series
The Doris Day Show
1968 · Series
Here's Lucy
1968 · Series
Adam-12
1968 · Series
The Big Mouth
1967 · Movie
Mr. Terrific
1967 · Series
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Series
Lock-Up
1959 · Series
Lassie
1954 · Series
The Desperado
1954 · Movie
She Couldn't Say No
1954 · Movie
The Flaming Urge
1953 · Movie
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953 · Series
The Maverick
1952 · Movie
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952 · Series
Fargo
1952 · Movie
Man from the Black Hills
1952 · Movie
As We Forgive
1952 · Movie
The Red Skelton Show
1951 · Series
Contest Crazy
1948 · Movie
Dig That Gold
1948 · Movie
Brother Knows Best
1948 · Movie
Do or Diet
1947 · Movie
I'll Build It Myself
1946 · Movie
Motor Maniacs
1946 · Movie
Little Giant
1946 · Movie
Riverboat Rhythm
1946 · Movie
Trouble or Nothing
1946 · Movie
The Big Beef
1945 · Movie
You Drive Me Crazy
1945 · Movie
It's Your Move
1945 · Movie
What, No Cigarettes
1945 · Movie
Hi, Beautiful
1944 · Movie
Feather Your Nest
1944 · Movie
San Diego I Love You
1944 · Movie
Goin' to Town
1944 · Movie
Her Primitive Man
1944 · Movie
Radio Rampage
1944 · Movie
Crash Dive
1943 · Movie
Duck Soup
1942 · Movie
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942 · Movie
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942 · Movie
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939 · Movie
When Tomorrow Comes
1939 · Movie
Bachelor Mother
1939 · Movie
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie
Stagecoach
1939 · Movie
Pacific Liner
1939 · Movie
Convicts at Large
1938 · Movie
Next Time I Marry
1938 · Movie
Rebellious Daughters
1938 · Movie
Law of the Underworld
1938 · Movie
Condemned Women
1938 · Movie
Ears of Experience
1938 · Movie
I Met My Love Again
1938 · Movie
Edgar & Goliath
1937 · Movie
Love in a Bungalow
1937 · Movie
Quality Street
1937 · Movie
To Mary - with Love
1936 · Movie
Women Are Trouble
1936 · Movie
Dummy Ache
1936 · Movie
Will Power
1936 · Movie
Muss 'em Up
1936 · Movie
Gasoloons
1936 · Movie
Two-Fisted
1935 · Movie
In Love at 40
1935 · Movie
Edgar Hamlet
1935 · Movie
Sock Me to Sleep
1935 · Movie
Brick-a-Brac
1935 · Movie
Shivers
1934 · Movie
Poisoned Ivory
1934 · Movie
A Blasted Event
1934 · Movie
The Winnah!
1934 · Movie
Wrong Direction
1934 · Movie
Love on a Ladder
1934 · Movie
What Fur
1933 · Movie
Only Yesterday
1933 · Movie
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933 · Movie
Midshipman Jack
1933 · Movie
Quiet Please!
1933 · Movie
Art in the Raw
1933 · Movie
Fish Feathers
1932 · Movie
Giggle Water
1932 · Movie
Westward Passage
1932 · Movie
Night World
1932 · Movie
Ladies of the Jury
1932 · Movie
Running Hollywood
1932 · Movie
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931 · Movie
Secret Service
1931 · Movie
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931 · Movie
Romance
1930 · Movie
The Rogue Song
1930 · Movie
Waltzing Around
1929 · Movie
Thru Different Eyes
1929 · Movie
New Year's Eve
1929 · Movie
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Movie