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 (65)
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
Taming a Husband
1910
The Two Paths
1911
A Strange Meeting
1909
Little Brother
The Sweetheart
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
Tannhäuser
Venus
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
Getting Even
1909
David Copperfield
Em'ly as a Woman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Miss Gray
The Seventh Day
1909
When a Count Counted
1912
Rejuvenation
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Madame Rex
1911
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
The Primal Call
A Servant
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant
The Indian Brothers
1911
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
Through the Breakers
1909
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
The Trail of Books
The Wife
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
Bobby the Coward
The Girl Next Door
Swords and Hearts
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Divorce and the Daughter
Alicia
The Politician's Love Story
1909
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
Enoch Arden: Part II
Teenage Arden Daughter
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
Petticoat Camp
1912
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
Cinderella
Cinderella
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
Cymbeline
Imogen
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
Comata, the Sioux
1909
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
In The Chorus
The Daughter Grown Up
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
The Pillory
Ruth
A Gold Necklace
1910
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
Lucile
Matilda
The Saleslady
Her Sister
The Marble Heart
Marie
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
Jilted
1912
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne