Florence Lake
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 (113 Appearances)
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Long Way Home
The Day of the Locust
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Police Woman
The Rockford Files
Welcome to Arrow Beach
Live Again, Die Again
The Girl Most Likely To...
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Time to Run
Banyon
Emergency!
Nichols
Banyon
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Savage Intruder
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Doris Day Show
Here's Lucy
Adam-12
The Big Mouth
Mr. Terrific
Petticoat Junction
Lock-Up
Lassie
The Desperado
She Couldn't Say No
The Flaming Urge
Revlon Mirror Theatre
The Maverick
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Fargo
Man from the Black Hills
As We Forgive
The Red Skelton Show
Contest Crazy
Dig That Gold
Brother Knows Best
Do or Diet
I'll Build It Myself
Motor Maniacs
Little Giant
Riverboat Rhythm
Trouble or Nothing
The Big Beef
You Drive Me Crazy
It's Your Move
What, No Cigarettes
Hi, Beautiful
Feather Your Nest
San Diego I Love You
Goin' to Town
Her Primitive Man
Radio Rampage
Crash Dive
Duck Soup
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Four Jacks and a Jill
Fifth Avenue Girl
When Tomorrow Comes
Bachelor Mother
Union Pacific
Stagecoach
Pacific Liner
Convicts at Large
Next Time I Marry
Rebellious Daughters
Law of the Underworld
Condemned Women
Ears of Experience
I Met My Love Again
Edgar & Goliath
Love in a Bungalow
Quality Street
To Mary - with Love
Women Are Trouble
Dummy Ache
Will Power
Muss 'em Up
Gasoloons
Two-Fisted
In Love at 40
Edgar Hamlet
Sock Me to Sleep
Brick-a-Brac
Shivers
Poisoned Ivory
A Blasted Event
The Winnah!
Wrong Direction
Love on a Ladder
What Fur
Only Yesterday
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Midshipman Jack
Quiet Please!
Art in the Raw
Fish Feathers
Giggle Water
Westward Passage
Night World
Ladies of the Jury
Running Hollywood
Hollywood Halfbacks
Secret Service
The Drums of Jeopardy
Romance
The Rogue Song
Waltzing Around
Thru Different Eyes
New Year's Eve