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