Florence La Badie
Biography
From Wikipedia 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 (50)
War and the Woman
as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
1917
The Man Without a Country
as Barbara Norton
1917
The Woman in White
as Ann Catherick
1917
When Love Was Blind
as Eleanor Grayson
1917
Divorce and the Daughter
as Alicia
1916
The Return of Draw Egan
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1916
The Pillory
as Ruth
1916
The Fear of Poverty
as Grace Lane
1916
The Fugitive
as Margery Carew
1916
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
as Miss Gray
1916
Mr. Meeson's Will
as Augusta Smithers
1915
A Disciple of Nietzsche
as One of the Unfit
1915
Crossed Wires
as Flo Drake
1915
The Country Girl
as Phyllis, the Country Girl
1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
1915
A Freight Car Honeymoon
as Alice Reed - the Bride
1915
God's Witness
as Beryl Darcy
1915
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
A Debut in the Secret Service
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Cat's Paw
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Gray Hargreave
1914
The Head Waiter
as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
1913
Tannhäuser
as Venus
1913
The Marble Heart
as Marie
1913
Cymbeline
as Imogen
1913
The Evidence of the Film
as Sister of Messenger Boy
1913
Star of Bethlehem
as Mary
1912
Petticoat Camp
1912
Lucile
as Matilda
1912
The County's Prize Baby
as Mary, The Baby's Mother
1912
Undine
as Undine, the Water Nymph
1912
The Voice of Conscience
as The Orphan's Rival
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
as The Wife
1912
The Portrait of Lady Anne
as Lady Anne
1912
Under Two Flags
as The Silver Pheasant
1912
Dottie's New Doll
as Dottie's Nurse
1912
Whom God Hath Joined
as Sue
1912
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
as Myra
1912
Jess
as Jess's Sister, Bess
1912
Jilted
1912
The Saleslady
as Her Sister
1912
Rejuvenation
as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1912
The Girl of the Grove
as The Girl
1912
My Baby's Voice
as The Telephone Operator
1912
Flying to Fortune
as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
1912
The Silent Witness
as The Young Wife
1912
East Lynne
as Barbara Drew
1912
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
1912
Cinderella
as Cinderella
1911
The Trail of Books
as The Wife
1911