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Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 β 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 (1954β1964), 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
all 110
Movies 94
TV Shows 16

Long Way Home (1975)

The Day of the Locust (1975)

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974)

The Rockford Files (1974)

Police Woman (1974)

Live Again, Die Again (1974)

Time to Run (1973)

Banyon (1972)

Emergency! (1972)

Nichols (1971)

Banyon (1971)

The Smith Family (1971)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)

The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970)

Here's Lucy (1968)

Adam-12 (1968)

The Big Mouth (1967)

Petticoat Junction (1963)

Lassie (1954)

The Desperado (1954)

She Couldn't Say No (1954)

The Flaming Urge (1953)

The Maverick (1952)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)

Fargo (1952)

The Red Skelton Show (1951)

Contest Crazy (1948)

Dig That Gold (1948)

Brother Knows Best (1948)

All Gummed Up (1947)

Do or Diet (1947)

I'll Build It Myself (1946)

Motor Maniacs (1946)

Little Giant (1946)

Riverboat Rhythm (1946)

Trouble or Nothing (1946)

The Big Beef (1945)

You Drive Me Crazy (1945)

It's Your Move (1945)

What, No Cigarettes (1945)

Hi, Beautiful (1944)

Feather Your Nest (1944)

San Diego I Love You (1944)

Goin' to Town (1944)

Her Primitive Man (1944)

Radio Rampage (1944)

Hi'ya, Sailor (1943)

Crash Dive (1943)

Duck Soup (1942)

Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Rough on Rents (1942)

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

Pacific Liner (1939)

Next Time I Marry (1938)

Law of the Underworld (1938)

Condemned Women (1938)

Ears of Experience (1938)

I Met My Love Again (1938)

Edgar & Goliath (1937)

Quality Street (1937)

To Mary - with Love (1936)

Dummy Ache (1936)

Will Power (1936)

Muss 'em Up (1936)

Gasoloons (1936)

Two-Fisted (1935)

In Love at 40 (1935)

Edgar Hamlet (1935)

Brick-a-Brac (1935)

Shivers (1934)

Poisoned Ivory (1934)

A Blasted Event (1934)

The Winnah! (1934)

Wrong Direction (1934)

Love on a Ladder (1934)

What Fur (1933)

Only Yesterday (1933)

Midshipman Jack (1933)

Quiet Please! (1933)

Good Housewrecking (1933)

A Merchant of Menace (1933)

Art in the Raw (1933)

Fish Feathers (1932)

Giggle Water (1932)

Westward Passage (1932)

Night World (1932)

Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Running Hollywood (1932)

Secret Service (1931)

The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

Romance (1930)

Waltzing Around (1929)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1904-11-27
Deathday1980-04-11 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceCharleston, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsFlorence Silverlake
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