Florence La Badie
Born
April 26, 1888
Died
October 13, 1917 (29 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
1917
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
1917
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
1917
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
1917
Divorce and the Daughter
1916
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
1916
The Pillory
Ruth
1916
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
1916
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
1916
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
1915
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
1915
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
1915
The Country Girl
Phyllis, the Country Girl
1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
1915
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Alice Reed - the Bride
1915
God's Witness
Beryl Darcy
1915
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
A Debut in the Secret Service
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
1914
The Head Waiter
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
1913
Tannhäuser
Venus
1913
The Marble Heart
Marie
1913
Cymbeline
Imogen
1913
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
1913
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
1912
Petticoat Camp
1912
Lucile
Matilda
1912
The County's Prize Baby
Mary, The Baby's Mother
1912
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
1912
The Voice of Conscience
The Orphan's Rival
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
The Wife
1912
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne
1912
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant
1912
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
1912
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
1912
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
1912
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
1912
Jilted
1912
The Saleslady
1912
Rejuvenation
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1912
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
1912
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
1912
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
1912
The Silent Witness
The Young Wife
1912
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
1912
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
1912
Cinderella
Cinderella
1911
The Trail of Books
The Wife
1911
David Copperfield
Em'ly as a Woman
1911
In The Chorus
The Daughter Grown Up
1911
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
1911
The Primal Call
A Servant
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
1911
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
1911
Through the Breakers
1909
Getting Even
1909
Comata, the Sioux
1909
A Strange Meeting
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
The Politician's Love Story
1909