
Florence Lake
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.
113 acting credits
Acting · 113

Lassie
1954

Adam-12
1968

The Rockford Files
1974

Emergency!
1972

Petticoat Junction
1963

Police Woman
1974

The Red Skelton Show
1951

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970

Here's Lucy
1968

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952

The Doris Day Show
1968

Lock-Up
1959

Nichols
1971

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969

Banyon
1972

Mr. Terrific
1967

Stagecoach
1939

The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970

Quality Street
1937

Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953

The Big Mouth
1967

The Day of the Locust
1975

Union Pacific
1939

Bachelor Mother
1939

When Tomorrow Comes
1939

Crash Dive
1943

The Girl Most Likely To...
1973

Romance
1930

San Diego I Love You
1944

The Drums of Jeopardy
1931

Fargo
1952

Night World
1932

Only Yesterday
1933

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974

Her Primitive Man
1944

Four Jacks and a Jill
1942

Long Way Home
1975

Next Time I Marry
1938

She Couldn't Say No
1954

Little Giant
1946

The Desperado
1954

Dummy Ache
1936

Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974

Law of the Underworld
1938

Banyon
1971

Fifth Avenue Girl
1939

The Rogue Song
1930

Hi, Beautiful
1944

Live Again, Die Again
1974
Quiet Please!
1933

Muss 'em Up
1936

Two-Fisted
1935

Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942

Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973

Man from the Black Hills
1952

The Maverick
1952

Time to Run
1973
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
I'll Build It Myself
1946
Wrong Direction
1934

Pacific Liner
1939

Condemned Women
1938

Poisoned Ivory
1934

To Mary - with Love
1936

Westward Passage
1932

Do or Diet
1947
Duck Soup
1942
Gasoloons
1936

Secret Service
1931
Running Hollywood
1932

Ladies of the Jury
1932

Savage Intruder
1970

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933

Midshipman Jack
1933

Rebellious Daughters
1938

I Met My Love Again
1938
Feather Your Nest
1944

Waltzing Around
1929
It's Your Move
1945

The Flaming Urge
1953
The Winnah!
1934

Thru Different Eyes
1929
Edgar & Goliath
1937
What, No Cigarettes
1945

What Fur
1933
Love in a Bungalow
1937

Riverboat Rhythm
1946

Women Are Trouble
1936

The Big Beef
1945

You Drive Me Crazy
1945
Brick-a-Brac
1935
Ears of Experience
1938
Shivers
1934
Motor Maniacs
1946

New Year's Eve
1929
Brother Knows Best
1948
Love on a Ladder
1934
Sock Me to Sleep
1935

Goin' to Town
1944

Will Power
1936
In Love at 40
1935
Radio Rampage
1944
Edgar Hamlet
1935
Dig That Gold
1948
Art in the Raw
1933
Giggle Water
1932
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
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Convicts at Large
1938
As We Forgive
1952

Trouble or Nothing
1946
Fish Feathers
1932
Contest Crazy
1948
A Blasted Event
1934