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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…
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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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Florence Lake's Filmography
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Long Way Home
as Grandma Boggs
The Day of the Locust
as Lee Sister #2
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
as Mrs. Foster
Welcome To Arrow Beach
as Landlady
Live Again, Die Again
as Old Friend
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Clerk
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
as Old Woman on Porch
Time to Run
Banyon
as Elderly Waitress
Savage Intruder
as Mildred
The Big Mouth
as Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
The Desperado
as Mrs. Cameron
She Couldn't Say No
as Mrs. Gruman
The Flaming Urge
as Mrs. Binger
The Maverick
as Grandma Watson
Fargo
as Maggie
Man from the Black Hills
as Martha
No Poster
As We Forgive
No Poster
Contest Crazy
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
Dig That Gold
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
Brother Knows Best
as Florence Kennedy
Do or Diet
as Florence - Edgar's Wife
No Poster
I'll Build It Myself
as Florence
No Poster
Motor Maniacs
as Florence Kennedy
Little Giant
as Housewife (uncredited)
Riverboat Rhythm
as Penelope Beeler Witherspoon
Trouble or Nothing
as Florence, Edgar's Wife
The Big Beef
as Florence Kennedy
You Drive Me Crazy
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
It's Your Move
as Mrs. Florence Kennedy
No Poster
What, No Cigarettes
as Florence Kennedy
Hi, Beautiful
as Mrs. Bisbee
No Poster
Feather Your Nest
as Florence
San Diego I Love You
as Miss Lake
Goin' to Town
as Abigail
Her Primitive Man
as Miss Crims
No Poster
Radio Rampage
as Florence
Crash Dive
as Doris - Jean's Roommate
No Poster
Duck Soup
as Florence
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Phoebe Quentin
Four Jacks and a Jill
as Counter Girl (uncredited)
Fifth Avenue Girl
as Slavey (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
Bachelor Mother
as Oliver's Wife (uncredited)
Union Pacific
as Woman (uncredited)
Stagecoach
as Nancy Whitney (uncredited)
Pacific Liner
as Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)
Convicts at Large
as Hattie
Next Time I Marry
as Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
Rebellious Daughters
as Dizzy
Law of the Underworld
as Mrs. Billy Winters
Condemned Women
as Prisoner
No Poster
Ears of Experience
as Florence
I Met My Love Again
as Carol Towner
No Poster
Edgar & Goliath
as Florence, Edgar's wife
Love in a Bungalow
as The 'Ga-Ga' Prospect
Quality Street
as Henrietta Turnbull
To Mary - with Love
as Salesgirl
Women Are Trouble
as Clara
Dummy Ache
as Florence
Will Power
as Florence Kennedy
Muss 'em Up
as Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited)
No Poster
Gasoloons
as Florence Kennedy
Two-Fisted
as Doris Pritchard
No Poster
In Love at 40
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
Edgar Hamlet
as Florence
No Poster
Sock Me to Sleep
as Florence
No Poster
Brick-a-Brac
as Florence
No Poster
Shivers
as Florence
Poisoned Ivory
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
A Blasted Event
as Florence
The Winnah!
as Florence
No Poster
Wrong Direction
as Florence, Edgar's Wife
No Poster
Love on a Ladder
as Florence
What Fur
as Florence
Only Yesterday
as One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
as Dizzy
Midshipman Jack
as Sally Withers
No Poster
Quiet Please!
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
Art in the Raw
No Poster
Fish Feathers
as Florence Kennedy
No Poster
Giggle Water
as Florence
Westward Passage
as Elmer's Wife
Night World
as Ms. Smith (uncredited)
Ladies of the Jury
as Mrs. Dace (uncredited)
No Poster
Running Hollywood
as Autograph Seeker
No Poster
Hollywood Halfbacks
Secret Service
as Caroline Mitford
The Drums of Jeopardy
as Anya Karlov
Romance
as Susan Van Tuyl
The Rogue Song
as Nadja
Waltzing Around
as George's Wife
Thru Different Eyes
as Myrtle
New Year's Eve
as Pearl
No Poster
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
as Florence