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In the early 1900s, her father and uncle toured with a circus in an aerial act known as "The Flying Silverlakes". Her mother, Edith Goodwin, was an actress.
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Florence Lake
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Foreign the reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, see Big Creek Hydroelectric Project Their mother brought the children to Hollywood to get into the burgeoning film industry. 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 Mistress
Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy"s death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television Her best-known television 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 television series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw".
She also appeared in the first color episode of the television 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 appeared in an episode of the 1973 situation comedy A Touch of Grace, and later that year 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 television series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.
