Florence Lake

Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake on January 1, 1904 – died April 11, 1980) was an American actress who is best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.

The Silverlakes were a theatrical family; Florence's parents were once aerialists, billed as "The Flying Silverlakes." Florence's younger brother, Arthur Silverlake, Jr., later became famous as movie comedian Arthur Lake, familiar as "Dagwood Bumstead" in the Blondie movie series.

Arthur was tall but 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.

External links

• Florence Lake at the Internet Movie Database