Florence Lake
Actor
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
The Day of the Locust
as Lee Sister #2 1975
Union Pacific
as Woman (uncredited) 1939
Bachelor Mother
as Oliver's Wife (uncredited) 1939
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Clerk 1973
The Big Mouth
as Assaulted Lady (uncredited) 1967
Crash Dive
as Doris - Jean's Roommate 1943
Fifth Avenue Girl
as Slavey (uncredited) 1939
Little Giant
as Housewife (uncredited) 1946
Quality Street
as Henrietta Turnbull 1937
Savage Intruder
as Mildred 1970
Romance
as Susan Van Tuyl 1930
She Couldn't Say No
as Mrs. Gruman 1954
Night World
as Ms. Smith (uncredited) 1932
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited) 1939
The Drums of Jeopardy
as Anya Karlov 1931
Pacific Liner
as Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited) 1939