Acting

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Woman

Nov 27, 1904

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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.

Stagecoach

March 3, 1939

The Rockford Files

September 13, 1974

The Day of the Locust

May 7, 1975

Union Pacific

May 5, 1939

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

September 19, 1970

Lassie

September 12, 1954

Bachelor Mother

June 30, 1939

Emergency!

January 22, 1972

Emergency!

January 22, 1972

The Girl Most Likely to...

November 6, 1973