Florence La Badie
Acting
Born: April 26, 1888 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: October 13, 1917 (aged 29)
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Biography
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 (64)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
The Two Paths
1911
David Copperfield
Em'ly as a Woman
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
Taming a Husband
1910
Enoch Arden: Part II
Teenage Arden Daughter
Swords and Hearts
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Seventh Day
1909
When a Count Counted
1912
Little Brother
The Sweetheart
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Miss Gray
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
Getting Even
1909
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
Divorce and the Daughter
Alicia
The Primal Call
A Servant
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
A Gold Necklace
1910
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
Tannhäuser
Venus
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
The Politician's Love Story
1909
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
The Indian Brothers
1911
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Trail of Books
The Wife
Madame Rex
1911
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
A Strange Meeting
1909
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
Cinderella
Cinderella
In The Chorus
The Daughter Grown Up
Through the Breakers
1909
The Marble Heart
Marie
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
Comata, the Sioux
1909
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
Bobby the Coward
The Girl Next Door
Jilted
1912
Lucile
Matilda
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
The Pillory
Ruth
Cymbeline
Imogen
The Saleslady
Her Sister
Petticoat Camp
1912
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant