Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1904-11-27
Day of Death
1980-04-11
Place of Birth
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Florence Lake
Biography
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.
Filmography (94)
Long Way Home
1975
The Day of the Locust
1975
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974
Live Again, Die Again
1974
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
Time to Run
1973
Banyon
1971
Savage Intruder
1970
The Big Mouth
1967
The Desperado
1954
She Couldn't Say No
1954
The Flaming Urge
1953
