Florence Lake
Acting • Born 1904-11-27 – Died 1980-04-11
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.
Filmography
119 credits
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie • 1942
Phoebe Quentin
Savage Intruder
Movie • 1970
Mildred
Time to Run
Movie • 1973
New Year's Eve
Movie • 1929
Pearl
Giggle Water
Movie • 1932
Florence
Night World
Movie • 1932
Ms. Smith (uncredited)
Romance
Movie • 1930
Susan Van Tuyl
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Movie • 1933
Dizzy
Art in the Raw
Movie • 1933
The Flaming Urge
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Binger
Secret Service
Movie • 1931
Caroline Mitford
Will Power
Movie • 1936
Florence Kennedy
Two-Fisted
Movie • 1935
Doris Pritchard
Wrong Direction
Movie • 1934
Florence, Edgar's Wife
Four Jacks and a Jill
Movie • 1942
Counter Girl (uncredited)
Condemned Women
Movie • 1938
Prisoner
Convicts at Large
Movie • 1938
Hattie
Law of the Underworld
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Billy Winters
Running Hollywood
Movie • 1932
Autograph Seeker
The Drums of Jeopardy
Movie • 1931
Anya Karlov
Rebellious Daughters
Movie • 1938
Dizzy
Riverboat Rhythm
Movie • 1946
Penelope Beeler Witherspoon
The Rogue Song
Movie • 1930
Nadja
Westward Passage
Movie • 1932
Elmer's Wife
I Met My Love Again
Movie • 1938
Carol Towner
Next Time I Marry
Movie • 1938
Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
Pacific Liner
Movie • 1939
Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble
Movie • 1936
Clara
Stagecoach
Movie • 1939
Nancy Whitney (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Woman (uncredited)
Fifth Avenue Girl
Movie • 1939
Slavey (uncredited)
Bachelor Mother
Movie • 1939
Oliver's Wife (uncredited)
Quiet Please!
Movie • 1933
Florence Kennedy
The Winnah!
Movie • 1934
Florence
Gasoloons
Movie • 1936
Florence Kennedy
Midshipman Jack
Movie • 1933
Sally Withers
The Big Mouth
Movie • 1967
Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
Shivers
Movie • 1934
Florence
It's Your Move
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Florence Kennedy
To Mary - with Love
Movie • 1936
Salesgirl
Edgar Hamlet
Movie • 1935
Florence
Poisoned Ivory
Movie • 1934
Florence Kennedy
In Love at 40
Movie • 1935
Florence Kennedy
Fargo
Movie • 1952
Maggie
The Maverick
Movie • 1952
Grandma Watson
Man from the Black Hills
Movie • 1952
Martha
Welcome to Arrow Beach
Movie • 1974
Landlady
The Desperado
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Cameron
Waltzing Around
Movie • 1929
George's Wife
Ladies of the Jury
Movie • 1932
Mrs. Dace (uncredited)
Thru Different Eyes
Movie • 1929
Myrtle
Dummy Ache
Movie • 1936
Florence
Love on a Ladder
Movie • 1934
Florence
Ears of Experience
Movie • 1938
Florence
Muss 'em Up
Movie • 1936
Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Her Primitive Man
Movie • 1944
Miss Crims
She Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Gruman
Fish Feathers
Movie • 1932
Florence Kennedy
Brick-a-Brac
Movie • 1935
Florence
Live Again, Die Again
Movie • 1974
Old Friend
Duck Soup
Movie • 1942
Florence
Crash Dive
Movie • 1943
Doris - Jean's Roommate
Feather Your Nest
Movie • 1944
Florence
Radio Rampage
Movie • 1944
Florence
Long Way Home
Movie • 1975
Grandma Boggs
Edgar & Goliath
Movie • 1937
Florence, Edgar's wife
Only Yesterday
Movie • 1933
One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)
The Day of the Locust
Movie • 1975
Lee Sister #2
What, No Cigarettes
Movie • 1945
Florence Kennedy
Goin' to Town
Movie • 1944
Abigail
Little Giant
Movie • 1946
Housewife (uncredited)
You Drive Me Crazy
Movie • 1945
Florence Kennedy
The Big Beef
Movie • 1945
Florence Kennedy
San Diego I Love You
Movie • 1944
Miss Lake
Quality Street
Movie • 1937
Henrietta Turnbull
Motor Maniacs
Movie • 1946
Florence Kennedy
Trouble or Nothing
Movie • 1946
Florence, Edgar's Wife
I'll Build It Myself
Movie • 1946
Florence
Do or Diet
Movie • 1947
Florence - Edgar's Wife
The Girl Most Likely To...
Movie • 1973
Clerk
Contest Crazy
Movie • 1948
Florence Kennedy
Brother Knows Best
Movie • 1948
Florence Kennedy
Dig That Gold
Movie • 1948
Florence Kennedy
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Foster
What Fur
Movie • 1933
Florence
Banyon
Movie • 1971
Elderly Waitress
Hollywood Halfbacks
Movie • 1931
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Movie • 1973
Old Woman on Porch
A Blasted Event
Movie • 1934
Florence
Love in a Bungalow
Movie • 1937
The 'Ga-Ga' Prospect
Hi, Beautiful
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Bisbee
As We Forgive
Movie • 1952
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie • 1939
Waitress (uncredited)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV • 1970
Martha Dudley
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV • 1952
Clara Randolph
Mr. Terrific
TV • 1967
Maw
Nichols
TV • 1971
Mrs. Prine
Nichols
TV • 1971
Old Lady
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. Frieda Pine
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Emily Simpson
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Millicent Anderson
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Mrs. Latimer
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Woman
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Trixie
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Little Old Lady
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Senior Citizen
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Tessie
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Old Woman
Banyon
TV • 1972
Taffy
Lassie
TV • 1954
Jenny
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Martha Wilson
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Mrs. Farrell
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Maggie
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
Lizzy
The Doris Day Show
TV • 1968
Adelaide Lindsay
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Penny Jackson
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Madame President
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV • 1953