Florence La Badie
Acting
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.
Known for
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movieWar and the Woman
1917
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
movieThe Man Without a Country
1917
Barbara Norton
movieThe Woman in White
1917
Ann Catherick
movieWhen Love Was Blind
1917
Eleanor Grayson
Her Life and His
1917
Mary Murdock
movieThe Return of Draw Egan
1916
Townswoman (uncredited)
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916
Florence Stanton
movieThe Fear of Poverty
1916
Grace Lane
movieThe Fugitive
1916
Margery Carew
movieMr. Meeson's Will
1915
Augusta Smithers
movieA Disciple of Nietzsche
1915
One of the Unfit
movieCrossed 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
movieThe Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
movieThe Cat's Paw
1914
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
movieThe Million Dollar Mystery
1914
Florence Gray Hargreave
The Head Waiter
1913
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
movieLittle Brother
1913
The Sweetheart
movieTannhäuser
1913
Venus
movieCymbeline
1913
Imogen
movieThe Evidence of the Film
1913
Sister of Messenger Boy
movieLucile
1912
Matilda
The County's Prize Baby
1912
Mary, The Baby's Mother
movieUndine
1912
Undine, the Water Nymph
The Voice of Conscience
1912
The Orphan's Rival
movieThe Portrait of Lady Anne
1912
Lady Anne
movieUnder Two Flags
1912
The Silver Pheasant
movieDottie's New Doll
1912
Dottie's Nurse
movieJess
1912
Jess's Sister, Bess
movieThe Saleslady
1912
Her Sister
movieRejuvenation
1912
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
movieThe Girl of the Grove
1912
The Girl
movieMy Baby's Voice
1912
The Telephone Operator
movieFlying to Fortune
1912
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
The Silent Witness
1912
The Young Wife
As It Was in the Beginning
1912
The Society Girl's Friend
movieEast Lynne
1912
Barbara Drew
Her Ladyship's Page
1912
Her Ladyship
movieDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912
Jekyll's Sweetheart
movieCinderella
1911
Cinderella
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
movieThe Trail of Books
1911
The Wife
movieDavid Copperfield
1911
Em'ly as a Woman
movieIn The Chorus
1911
The Daughter Grown Up
movieSwords and Hearts
1911
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Smuggler
1911
The Smuggler's Ward
movieBobby the Coward
1911
The Girl Next Door
movieFighting Blood
1911
The Son's Girlfriend
Her Sacrifice
1911
The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
movieThe Primal Call
1911
A Servant
movieEnoch Arden: Part II
1911
Teenage Arden Daughter
movieEnoch Arden
1911
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
movieThe Manicure Lady
1911
The Rival's Girlfriend
The New Dress
1911
At Wedding
Paradise Lost
1911
An Angel/A Maid
After the Ball
1910
Mrs. Brown
