Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie (April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died at age 29 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
In 1911, her career took a leap when she was hired by Edwin Thanhouser of the Thanhouser Film Corporation in New Rochelle, New York. With her sophistication and beauty, Florence La Badie soon became Thanhouser's most prominent actress, appearing in dozens of films over the next two years. Her most remembered films of that period were The Tempest (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), a film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story, and the first film of Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1914). Her most well-known work was in the 1914 - 1915 serial, The Million Dollar Mystery.
Athletic and daring, in these films she performed all her own stunts. In 1915, she was featured in the magazine Reel Life, which described her as "the Beautiful and talented Florence La Badie, of the Thanhouser Studios, conceded one of the foremost of American screen players". Over a course of six years La Badie's career had taken her to top-billing as a film actress.
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Movies (104)
War and the Woman
1917 · Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Man Without a Country
1917 · Barbara Norton
The Woman in White
1917 · Ann Catherick
When Love Was Blind
1917 · Eleanor Grayson
Her Life and His
1917 · Mary Murdock
Divorce and the Daughter
1916 · Alicia
The Return of Draw Egan
1916 · Townswoman (uncredited)
The Pillory
1916 · Ruth
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916 · Florence Stanton
The Fear of Poverty
1916 · Grace Lane
The Fugitive
1916 · Margery Carew
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916 · Miss Gray
Mr. Meeson's Will
1915 · Augusta Smithers
The Price of Her Silence
1915 · The Elder Sister
A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915 · One of the Unfit
Crossed Wires
1915 · Flo Drake
The Country Girl
1915 · Phyllis, the Country Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
1915 · Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915 · Alice Reed - the Bride
God's Witness
1915 · Beryl Darcy
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914 · Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914 · Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
1914 · Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914 · Florence Gray Hargreave
The Head Waiter
1913 · Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
Little Brother
1913 · The Sweetheart
Tannhäuser
1913 · Venus
The Marble Heart
1913 · Marie
Cymbeline
1913 · Imogen
The Evidence of the Film
1913 · Sister of Messenger Boy
Star of Bethlehem
1912 · Mary
Petticoat Camp
1912
Lucile
1912 · Matilda
The County's Prize Baby
1912 · Mary, The Baby's Mother
Undine
1912 · Undine, the Water Nymph
The Voice of Conscience
1912 · The Orphan's Rival
When a Count Counted
1912 · Florence
The Wrecked Taxi
1912 · The Wife
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912 · Lady Anne
Under Two Flags
1912 · The Silver Pheasant
Dottie's New Doll
1912 · Dottie's Nurse
Whom God Hath Joined
1912 · Sue
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912 · Myra
Jess
1912 · Jess's Sister, Bess
Jilted
1912 · Florence
The Saleslady
1912 · Her Sister
Rejuvenation
1912 · The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Girl of the Grove
1912 · The Girl
My Baby's Voice
1912 · The Telephone Operator
Flying to Fortune
1912 · The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
The Silent Witness
1912 · The Young Wife
The Trouble Maker
1912 · The Wife
As It Was in the Beginning
1912 · The Society Girl's Friend
East Lynne
1912 · Barbara Drew
Her Ladyship's Page
1912 · Her Ladyship
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912 · Jekyll's Sweetheart
Cinderella
1911 · Cinderella
Beneath the Veil
1911 · The Girl
The Tempest
1911 · Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
The Baseball Bug
1911 · The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
A Master of Millions
1911 · Rose (unconfirmed)
A Mother's Faith
1911 · The Loyal Daughter
The Last of the Mohicans
1911 · Cora Munro
The Trail of Books
1911 · The Wife
David Copperfield
1911 · Em'ly as a Woman
In The Chorus
1911 · The Daughter Grown Up
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
Swords and Hearts
1911 · Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911 · Lady in Waiting
The Sorrowful Example
1911 · A Friend
The Smuggler
1911 · The Smuggler's Ward
The Indian Brothers
1911 · Squaw
Bobby the Coward
1911 · The Girl Next Door
The Thief and the Girl
1911 · The Girl
Fighting Blood
1911 · The Son's Girlfriend
Her Sacrifice
1911 · The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
The Primal Call
1911 · A Servant
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911 · Teenage Arden Daughter
Enoch Arden
1911 · Enoch's Teenage Daughter
Dave's Love Affair
1911 · May
The Manicure Lady
1911 · The Rival's Girlfriend
The New Dress
1911 · At Wedding
How She Triumphed
1911 · Florrie
A Knight of the Road
1911 · In Kitchen
Madame Rex
1911
Paradise Lost
1911 · An Angel/A Maid
The Broken Cross
1911 · Kate
The Spanish Gypsy
1911 · Gypsy
The Diamond Star
1911
The Two Paths
1911
After the Ball
1910 · Mrs. Brown
The Troublesome Baby
1910 · Flo
A Gold Necklace
1910
Serious Sixteen
1910
Taming a Husband
1910
Through the Breakers
1909
In the Window Recess
1909
Getting Even
1909
Comata, the Sioux
1909
The Seventh Day
1909
A Strange Meeting
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
The Politician's Love Story
1909
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