From Wikipedia
Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, January 1, 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 scatter
brained 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.