Florence Bates

Main Street to Broadway
Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Movie, 1953

• Director: Tay Garnett
• Main cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Agnes Moorehead, Tommy Morton, Mary Murphy, Herb Shriner
• Music: Ann Ronell

Paris Model
Nora Sullivan
Movie, 1953

• Director: Alfred E. Green
• Main cast: Eva Gabor, Paulette Goddard, Barbara Lawrence, Marilyn Maxwell

The San Francisco Story
Sadie
Movie, 1952

• Director: Robert Parrish
• Main cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Joel McCrea, Sidney Blackmer, Richard Erdman

Father Takes the Air
Minerva Bobbin
Movie, 1951

• Director: Frank McDonald
• Main cast: Walter Catlett, Raymond Walburn

Havana Rose
Mrs. Fillmore
Movie, 1951

• Main cast: Hugh Herbert, Estelita Rodriguez

Lullaby of Broadway
Mrs. Anna Hubbell
Movie, 1951

• Main cast: Doris Day, Billy De Wolfe, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall

The Tall Target
Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Movie, 1951

• Director: Anthony Mann
• Main cast: Adolphe Menjou, Paula Raymond, Dick Powell, Marshall Thompson

Belle of Old Mexico
Nellie Chatfield
Movie, 1950

• Main cast: Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Estelita Rodriguez

The Second Woman
Amelia Foster
Movie, 1950

• Director: James V. Kern
• Main cast: Robert Young, Florence Bates, Betsy Drake
• Music: Joseph Nussbaum

On the Town
Madame Dilyovska
Movie, 1949

• Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
• Main cast: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett
• Music: Lennie Hayton, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Edens

The Girl from Jones Beach
Miss Emma Shoemaker
Movie, 1949

• Director: Peter Godfrey
• Main cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Virginia Mayo

A Letter to Three Wives
Mrs. Manleigh
Movie, 1949

• Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Main cast: Kirk Douglas, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern
• Music: Alfred Newman

I Remember Mama
Florence Dana Moorhead
Movie, 1948

• Director: George Stevens
• Main cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Oskar Homolka
• Music: Roy Webb

My Dear Secretary
Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Movie, 1948

• Main cast: Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day, Helen Walker, Keenan Wynn
• Music: Heinz Roemheld

River Lady
Ma Dunnegan
Movie, 1948

• Director: George Sherman
• Main cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
• Music: Paul Sawtell

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Mandy
Movie, 1948

• Main cast: James Dunn, Diana Lynn, Guy Madison
• Music: Arthur Lange

Winter Meeting
Mrs. Castle
Movie, 1948

• Director: Bretaigne Windust
• Main cast: Bette Davis, Jim Davis, John Hoyt, Janis Paige
• Music: Max Steiner

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Griswold
Movie, 1947

• Director: Norman Z. McLeod
• Main cast: Danny Kaye, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Virginia Mayo
• Music: David Raksin

The Brasher Doubloon
Mrs. Murdock
Movie, 1947

• Director: John Brahm
• Main cast: Florence Bates, Nancy Guild, George Montgomery, Roy Roberts
• Music: David Buttolph

The Judge Steps Out
Chita
Movie, 1947

• Director: Boris Ingster
• Main cast: Ann Sothern, George Tobias

Claudia and David
Nancy Riddle
Movie, 1946

• Director: Walter Lang
• Main cast: Mary Astor, Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire
• Music: Cyril J. Mockridge

Cluny Brown
Dowager at Ames's Party
Movie, 1946

• Main cast: Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker
• Music: Cyril J. Mockridge

The Diary of a Chambermaid
Rose
Movie, 1946

• Director: Jean Renoir
• Main cast: Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer

Whistle Stop
Molly Veech
Movie, 1946

• Director: Léonide Moguy
• Main cast: Ava Gardner, Tom Conway, Victor McLaglen, George Raft
• Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Out of This World
Harriet Pringle
Movie, 1945

• Director: Hal Walker
• Main cast: Veronica Lake, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn

Saratoga Trunk
Sophie Bellop
Movie, 1945

• Director: Sam Wood
• Main cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Flora Robson
• Music: Max Steiner

Tonight and Every Night
May Tolliver
Movie, 1945

• Director: Victor Saville
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Janet Blair, Lee Bowman
• Music: George Duning, Marlin Skiles

Belle of the Yukon
Viola Chase
Movie, 1944

• Director: William A. Seiter
• Main cast: Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore
• Music: David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange

The Mask of Dimitrios
Madame Elise Chavez
Movie, 1944

• Director: Jean Negulesco
• Main cast: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott
• Music: Adolph Deutsch

Tahiti Nights
Queen Liliha
Movie, 1944

• Main cast: Florence Bates, Carole Mathews, Jay Silverheels

Mr. Lucky
Mrs. Van Every
Movie, 1943

• Main cast: Cary Grant, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Laraine Day
• Music: Roy Webb

His Butler's Sister
Lady Sloughberry
Movie, 1943

• Main cast: Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Franchot Tone

Mr. Big
Mrs. Mary Davis
Movie, 1943

• Director: Charles Lamont
• Main cast: Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, Robert Paige

Slightly Dangerous
Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
Movie, 1943

• Director: Wesley Ruggles
• Main cast: Lana Turner, Walter Brennan, Robert Young, May Whitty
• Music: Bronislau Kaper

They Got Me Covered
Gypsy Woman
Movie, 1943

• Main cast: Bob Hope, Lenore Aubert, Dorothy Lamour, Otto Preminger
• Music: Harold Arlen

We Were Dancing
Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
Movie, 1942

• Director: Robert Z. Leonard
• Main cast: Melvyn Douglas, Lee Bowman, Norma Shearer

Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Mrs. Baldwin
Movie, 1942

• Director: Leslie Goodwins
• Main cast: Leon Errol, Zasu Pitts, Charles Rogers, Lupe Vélez

The Moon and Sixpence
Tiare Johnson
Movie, 1942

• Main cast: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Eric Blore, Doris Dudley
• Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Mrs. Saunders
Movie, 1942

• Director: Robert Siodmak
• Main cast: Florence Bates, Richard Carlson, Cecil Kellaway, Martha O'Driscoll

The Tuttles of Tahiti
Emily
Movie, 1942

• Director: Charles Vidor
• Main cast: Charles Laughton, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen

The Devil and Miss Jones
Store Shopper
Movie, 1941

• Director: Sam Wood
• Main cast: Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn

Love Crazy
Mrs. Cooper
Movie, 1941

• Director: Jack Conway
• Main cast: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Jack Carson
• Music: Lennie Hayton

Road Show
Mrs. Newton
Movie, 1941

• Main cast: Charles Butterworth, Carole Landis, Adolphe Menjou
• Music: George Stoll

Strange Alibi
Katie
Movie, 1941

• Director: D. Ross Lederman
• Main cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, John Ridgely

Kitty Foyle
Customer
Movie, 1940

• Director: Sam Wood
• Main cast: Ginger Rogers, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Craig, Dennis Morgan
• Music: Roy Webb

Rebecca
Edythe Van Hopper
Movie, 1940

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders
• Music: Franz Waxman

Calling All Husbands
Emmie Trippe
Movie, 1940

• Director: Noel M. Smith
• Main cast: Florence Bates, George Tobias, Ernest Truex