From Wikipedia Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, January 1, 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.
Movie | Long Way Home | Grandma Boggs | 1975-09-07 |
Movie | The Day of the Locust | Lee Sister #2 | 1975-05-07 |
Movie | Welcome to Arrow Beach | Landlady | 1974-05-01 |
Movie | Live Again, Die Again | Old Friend | 1974-02-16 |
Movie | Happy Anniversary and Goodbye | Mrs. Foster | 1974-11-19 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Old Woman | 1974-09-13 |
Movie | Time to Run | 1973-01-24 | |
Movie | The Girl Most Likely To... | Clerk | 1973-11-06 |
Movie | Banyon | Elderly Waitress | 1971-03-15 |
Movie | Hollywood Horror House | Mildred | 1970-01-01 |
Series | Mr. Terrific | Maw | 1967-01-09 |
Movie | The Big Mouth | Assaulted Lady (uncredited) | 1967-07-12 |
Movie | The Desperado | Mrs. Cameron | 1954-06-20 |
Movie | She Couldn't Say No | Mrs. Gruman | 1954-02-15 |
Movie | The Flaming Urge | Mrs. Binger | 1953-09-27 |
Movie | Man from the Black Hills | Martha | 1952-03-29 |
Movie | Fargo | Maggie | 1952-09-07 |
Movie | The Maverick | Grandma Watson | 1952-12-14 |
Movie | Riverboat Rhythm | Penelope Beeler Witherspoon | 1946-02-16 |
Movie | Little Giant | Housewife (uncredited) | 1946-02-22 |
Movie | What, No Cigarettes | Florence Kennedy | 1945-07-13 |
Movie | It's Your Move | Mrs. Florence Kennedy | 1945-08-10 |
Movie | The Big Beef | Florence Kennedy | 1945-10-19 |
Movie | You Drive Me Crazy | Florence Kennedy | 1945-09-07 |
Movie | Radio Rampage | Florence | 1944-03-28 |
Movie | Her Primitive Man | Miss Crims | 1944-05-29 |
Movie | Goin' to Town | Abigail | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | Feather Your Nest | Florence | 1944-10-23 |
Movie | San Diego I Love You | Miss Lake | 1944-09-29 |
Movie | Crash Dive | Doris - Jean's Roommate | 1943-04-22 |
Movie | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Phoebe Quentin | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Four Jacks and a Jill | Counter Girl (uncredited) | 1942-01-23 |
Movie | Duck Soup | Florence | 1942-12-18 |
Movie | Stagecoach | Nancy Whitney (uncredited) | 1939-03-03 |
Movie | Pacific Liner | Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited) | 1939-01-06 |
Movie | Union Pacific | Woman (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | Bachelor Mother | Oliver's Wife (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 |
Movie | 5th Ave Girl | Slavey (uncredited) | 1939-09-22 |
Movie | When Tomorrow Comes | Waitress | 1939-08-11 |
Movie | Ears of Experience | Florence | 1938-01-28 |
Movie | Condemned Women | Prisoner | 1938-03-18 |
Movie | I Met My Love Again | Carol Towner | 1938-01-14 |
Movie | Convicts at Large | Hattie | 1938-12-14 |
Movie | Law of the Underworld | Mrs. Billy Winters | 1938-05-06 |
Movie | Next Time I Marry | Justice of the Peace's Wife | 1938-12-09 |
Movie | Rebellious Daughters | Dizzy | 1938-07-01 |
Movie | Quality Street | Henrietta Turnbull | 1937-03-26 |
Movie | Edgar & Goliath | Florence, Edgar's wife | 1937-11-19 |
Movie | Muss 'em Up | Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited) | 1936-02-13 |
Movie | Gasoloons | Florence Kennedy | 1936-01-03 |
Movie | Will Power | Florence Kennedy | 1936-03-05 |
Movie | Dummy Ache | Florence | 1936-07-10 |
Movie | To Mary - with Love | Salesgirl | 1936-08-01 |
Movie | Women Are Trouble | Clara | 1936-07-31 |
Movie | Brick-a-Brac | Florence | 1935-01-18 |
Movie | Edgar Hamlet | Florence | 1935-07-04 |
Movie | In Love at 40 | Florence Kennedy | 1935-08-29 |
Movie | Two-Fisted | Doris Pritchard | 1935-10-03 |
Movie | Wrong Direction | Florence, Edgar's Wife | 1934-05-18 |
Movie | Love on a Ladder | Florence | 1934-03-18 |
Movie | The Winnah! | Florence | 1934-07-20 |
Movie | Poisoned Ivory | Florence Kennedy | 1934-11-16 |
Movie | Shivers | 1934-12-24 | |
Movie | Art in the Raw | 1933-02-23 | |
Movie | Quiet Please! | Florence Kennedy | 1933-08-10 |
Movie | Midshipman Jack | Sally Withers | 1933-09-22 |
Movie | Only Yesterday | One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 |
Movie | The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Dizzy | 1933-10-25 |
Movie | Ladies of the Jury | Mrs. Dace (uncredited) | 1932-02-02 |
Movie | Running Hollywood | Autograph Seeker | 1932-01-27 |
Movie | Westward Passage | Elmer's Wife | 1932-05-27 |
Movie | Fish Feathers | Florence Kennedy | 1932-12-16 |
Movie | Night World | Ms. Smith (uncredited) | 1932-05-04 |
Movie | The Drums of Jeopardy | Anya Karlov | 1931-03-01 |
Movie | Secret Service | Caroline Mitford | 1931-11-14 |
Movie | The Rogue Song | Nadja | 1930-01-17 |
Movie | Romance | Susan Van Tuyl | 1930-08-20 |
Movie | Thru Different Eyes | Myrtle | 1929-04-13 |
Movie | Waltzing Around | George's Wife | 1929-05-13 |