Florence Lake
Birthday: 1904-11-27
Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery....
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Savage Intruder
An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, ...
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Time to Run
A conflicted teen lashes out by vandalizing equipment at the nuclear plant where his father works, t...
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New Year's Eve
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, wh...
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Night World
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, ...
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Romance
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman....
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nons...
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Art in the Raw
Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, m...
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The Flaming Urge
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extr...
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Secret Service
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a C...
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Will Power
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. F...
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Two-Fisted
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young...
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Wrong Direction
Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in ...
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Four Jacks and a Jill
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, ...
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Convicts at Large
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict....
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Law of the Underworld
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connectio...
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The Drums of Jeopardy
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter...
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Rebellious Daughters
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up ...
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Riverboat Rhythm
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business....
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The Rogue Song
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy o...
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Westward Passage
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Eu...
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I Met My Love Again
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until ...
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Next Time I Marry
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H...
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Pacific Liner
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's ...
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Women Are Trouble
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang....
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Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...
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Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...
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Fifth Avenue Girl
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglect...
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Bachelor Mother
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo...
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Quiet Please!
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot ...
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The Winnah!
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All t...
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Gasoloons
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. ...
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Midshipman Jack
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S....
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The Big Mouth
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertentl...
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Shivers
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house....
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It's Your Move
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two w...
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To Mary - with Love
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success...
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Poisoned Ivory
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her bro...
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Edgar Hamlet
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches....
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Fargo
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started...
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Man from the Black Hills
As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em ou...
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The Maverick
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders....
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Welcome to Arrow Beach
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nea...
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The Desperado
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger...
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Waltzing Around
Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of ...
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Ladies of the Jury
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi...
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Thru Different Eyes
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body wa...
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Dummy Ache
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, su...
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Love on a Ladder
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning h...
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Ears of Experience
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her fathe...
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Muss 'em Up
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding...
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Her Primitive Man
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a speci...
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Fish Feathers
Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong....
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Brick-a-Brac
In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks....
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Live Again, Die Again
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old ma...
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Duck Soup
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance....
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Crash Dive
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...
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Feather Your Nest
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the s...
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Radio Rampage
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to sav...
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Long Way Home
The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's fai...
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Edgar & Goliath
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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The Day of the Locust
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...
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What, No Cigarettes
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and relucta...
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Goin' to Town
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical jok...
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Little Giant
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro...
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You Drive Me Crazy
Edgar’s day goes from bad to catastrophic after he lends his brother-in-law his car — mistake number...
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The Big Beef
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman ...
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San Diego I Love You
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father...
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Quality Street
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson....
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Motor Maniacs
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is com...
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Trouble or Nothing
Edgar's brother-in-law persuades Edgar to indulge in a little betting at the race track, and Edgar l...
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I'll Build It Myself
Edgar Kennedy, never the one to spend money on a project when he can do it himself and spend twice t...
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Do or Diet
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-...
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The Girl Most Likely To...
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the peop...
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Dig That Gold
Edgar has an argument with his next door neighbor concerning a spite fence the neighbor is building ...
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Contest Crazy
Florence (Florence Lake) has entered and won a radio contest sponsored by the company Edgar (Edgar K...
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Brother Knows Best
Edgar, not willing to admit to Florence (Florence Lake) that they are broke, is forced by her to giv...
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Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband...
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Banyon
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha...
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Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
A telepathic lion teaches an awkward zoologist how to love....
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A Blasted Event
Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father....
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Love in a Bungalow
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautif...
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Hi, Beautiful
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film i...
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When Tomorrow Comes
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i...
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