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Florence Lake
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 co…
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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.
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1975
Long Way Home
Movie Grandma Boggs
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1975
The Day of the Locust
Movie Lee Sister #2
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1974
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Movie Mrs. Foster
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1974
The Rockford Files
TV show Old Woman
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1974
Police Woman
TV show Mrs. Farrell
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1974
Welcome to Arrow Beach
Movie Landlady
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1974
Live Again, Die Again
Movie Old Friend
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1973
The Girl Most Likely To...
Movie Clerk
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1973
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Movie Old Woman on Porch
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1973
Time to Run
Movie
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1972
Banyon
TV show Taffy
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1972
Emergency!
TV show Martha Wilson
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1971
Nichols
TV show Mrs. Prine
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1971
Banyon
Movie Elderly Waitress
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1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV show Martha Dudley
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1970
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV show Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
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1970
Savage Intruder
Movie Mildred
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1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV show Lizzy
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1968
The Doris Day Show
TV show Adelaide Lindsay
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1968
Here's Lucy
TV show Trixie
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1968
Adam-12
TV show Mrs. Frieda Pine
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1967
The Big Mouth
Movie Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
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1967
Mr. Terrific
TV show Maw
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1963
Petticoat Junction
TV show Emily Simpson
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1959
Lock-Up
TV show Penny Jackson
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1954
Lassie
TV show Jenny
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1954
The Desperado
Movie Mrs. Cameron
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1954
She Couldn't Say No
Movie Mrs. Gruman
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1953
The Flaming Urge
Movie Mrs. Binger
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1953
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV show
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1952
The Maverick
Movie Grandma Watson
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1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV show Clara Randolph
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1952
Fargo
Movie Maggie
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1952
Man from the Black Hills
Movie Martha
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1952
As We Forgive
Movie
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1951
The Red Skelton Show
TV show Tessie
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1948
Contest Crazy
Movie Florence Kennedy
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1948
Dig That Gold
Movie Florence Kennedy
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1948
Brother Knows Best
Movie Florence Kennedy
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1947
Do or Diet
Movie Florence - Edgar's Wife
