Florence Lake

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1904-11-27

Died: 1980-04-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	New Year's Eve	Pearl	0
2	1929	Thru Different Eyes	Myrtle	0
3	1929	Waltzing Around	George's Wife	0
4	1930	The Rogue Song	Nadja	55
5	1930	Romance	Susan Van Tuyl	63
6	1931	The Drums of Jeopardy	Anya Karlov	53
7	1931	Secret Service	Caroline Mitford	60
8	1931	Hollywood Halfbacks		0
9	1932	Running Hollywood	Autograph Seeker	0
10	1932	Ladies of the Jury	Mrs. Dace (uncredited)	64
11	1932	Night World	Ms. Smith (uncredited)	67
12	1932	Westward Passage	Elmer's Wife	58
13	1932	Giggle Water	Florence	0
14	1932	Fish Feathers	Florence Kennedy	0
15	1933	Art in the Raw		10
16	1933	Quiet Please!	Florence Kennedy	20
17	1933	Midshipman Jack	Sally Withers	60
18	1933	The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi	Dizzy	45
19	1933	Only Yesterday	One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)	68
20	1933	What Fur	Florence	0
21	1934	Love on a Ladder	Florence	10
22	1934	Wrong Direction	Florence, Edgar's Wife	0
23	1934	The Winnah!	Florence	0
24	1934	Poisoned Ivory	Florence Kennedy	0
25	1934	Shivers		0
26	1935	Brick-a-Brac	Florence	0
27	1935	Edgar Hamlet	Florence	0
28	1935	In Love at 40	Florence Kennedy	0
29	1935	Two-Fisted	Doris Pritchard	70
30	1936	Gasoloons	Florence Kennedy	0
31	1936	Muss 'em Up	Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited)	55
32	1936	Will Power	Florence Kennedy	0
33	1936	Dummy Ache	Florence	48
34	1936	Women Are Trouble	Clara	60
35	1936	To Mary - with Love	Salesgirl	45
36	1937	Quality Street	Henrietta Turnbull	59
37	1937	Edgar & Goliath	Florence, Edgar's wife	0
38	1938	I Met My Love Again	Carol Towner	55
39	1938	Ears of Experience	Florence	0
40	1938	Condemned Women	Prisoner	63
41	1938	Law of the Underworld	Mrs. Billy Winters	55
42	1938	Rebellious Daughters	Dizzy	50
43	1938	Next Time I Marry	Justice of the Peace's Wife	68
44	1938	Convicts at Large	Hattie	0
45	1939	Pacific Liner	Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)	52
46	1939	Stagecoach	Nancy Whitney (uncredited)	76
47	1939	Union Pacific	Woman (uncredited)	65
48	1939	Bachelor Mother	Oliver's Wife (uncredited)	71
49	1939	Fifth Avenue Girl	Slavey (uncredited)	70
50	1942	Four Jacks and a Jill	Counter Girl (uncredited)	60
51	1942	Scattergood Survives a Murder	Phoebe Quentin	45
52	1942	Duck Soup	Florence	0
53	1943	Crash Dive	Doris - Jean's Roommate	62
54	1944	Radio Rampage	Florence	0
55	1944	Her Primitive Man	Miss Crims	60
56	1944	Goin' to Town	Abigail	0
57	1944	San Diego I Love You	Miss Lake	63
58	1944	Feather Your Nest	Florence	0
59	1945	What, No Cigarettes	Florence Kennedy	60
60	1945	It's Your Move	Mrs. Florence Kennedy	0
61	1945	You Drive Me Crazy	Florence Kennedy	0
62	1945	The Big Beef	Florence Kennedy	0
63	1946	Trouble or Nothing	Florence, Edgar's Wife	0
64	1946	Riverboat Rhythm	Penelope Beeler Witherspoon	50
65	1946	Little Giant	Housewife (uncredited)	53
66	1946	Motor Maniacs	Florence Kennedy	0
67	1946	I'll Build It Myself	Florence	0
68	1947	Do or Diet	Florence - Edgar's Wife	0
69	1948	Brother Knows Best	Florence Kennedy	0
70	1948	Dig That Gold	Florence Kennedy	95
71	1948	Contest Crazy	Florence Kennedy	0
72	1952	Man from the Black Hills	Martha	0
73	1952	Fargo	Maggie	65
74	1952	The Maverick	Grandma Watson	0
75	1953	The Flaming Urge	Mrs. Binger	0
76	1954	She Couldn't Say No	Mrs. Gruman	56
77	1954	The Desperado	Mrs. Cameron	66
78	1967	The Big Mouth	Assaulted Lady (uncredited)	53
79	1970	Hollywood Horror House	Mildred	54
80	1971	Banyon	Elderly Waitress	0
81	1973	Time to Run		43
82	1973	The Girl Most Likely To...	Clerk	66
83	1974	Live Again, Die Again	Old Friend	80
84	1974	Welcome to Arrow Beach	Landlady	50
85	1974	Happy Anniversary and Goodbye	Mrs. Foster	48
86	1975	The Day of the Locust	Lee Sister #2	63
87	1975	Long Way Home	Grandma Boggs	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Red Skelton Show	Tessie	73
2	1951	The Red Skelton Show	Senior Citizen	73
3	1952	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	Clara Randolph	58
4	1954	Lassie	Jenny	61
5	1963	Petticoat Junction	Emily Simpson	58
6	1963	Petticoat Junction	Mrs. Latimer	58
7	1967	Mr. Terrific	Maw	71
8	1968	Adam-12	Mrs. Frieda Pine	71
9	1968	Adam-12	Millicent Anderson	71
10	1968	Adam-12	Woman	71
11	1968	Here's Lucy	Trixie	67
12	1968	Here's Lucy	Little Old Lady	67
13	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Lizzy	40
14	1970	The Bold Ones: The Senator	Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited)	30
15	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Martha Dudley	75
16	1971	Nichols	Mrs. Prine	50
17	1971	Nichols	Old Lady	50
18	1972	Emergency!	Martha Wilson	78
19	1972	Emergency!	Maggie	78
20	1972	Banyon	Taffy	70
21	1974	The Rockford Files	Old Woman	75
22	1974	Police Woman	Mrs. Farrell	62