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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

Bio

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

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Evidence of the Film

The Evidence of the Film

The Return of Draw Egan

The Return of Draw Egan

The Man Without a Country

The Man Without a Country

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