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Florence Bates
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Became the first woman lawyer in Texas in 1914 at the age of 26.
She was forever knitting, even during breaks when filming.
Screen, stage, television actress, and attorney.
Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
She appeared in five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar:
Rebecca (1940)
,
Kitty Foyle (1940)
,
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
,
Since You Went Away (1944)
and
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
. Of these, only Rebecca won the award.
Great-grandmother of actress/comedian
Rachel Hamilton
.
She had a daughter with her first husband, Joseph Ramer.
She appeared in four films with
S.Z. Sakall
:
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
,
San Antonio (1945)
,
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)
and
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
.
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