Florence La Badie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 26, 1888
- Died
- October 13, 1917 (aged 29)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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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Filmography
The Man Without a Country
Movie · as Barbara Norton
War and the Woman
Movie · as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Woman in White
Movie · as Ann Catherick
When Love Was Blind
Movie · as Eleanor Grayson
Her Life and His
Movie · as Mary Murdock
The Fugitive
Movie · as Margery Carew
The Return of Draw Egan
Movie · as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Pillory
Movie · as Ruth
Divorce and the Daughter
Movie · as Alicia
The Fear of Poverty
Movie · as Grace Lane
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Movie · as Miss Gray
Saint, Devil and Woman
Movie · as Florence Stanton
Crossed Wires
Movie · as Flo Drake
A Disciple of Nietzsche
Movie · as One of the Unfit
The Country Girl
Movie · as Phyllis, the Country Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Movie · as Alice Reed - the Bride
Mr. Meeson's Will
Movie · as Augusta Smithers
The Six-Cent Loaf
Movie · as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
God's Witness
Movie · as Beryl Darcy
The Price of Her Silence
Movie · as The Elder Sister
The Million Dollar Mystery
Movie · as Florence Gray Hargreave
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Movie · as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
Movie · as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
Movie · as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Head Waiter
Movie · as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
Tannhäuser
Movie · as Venus
Cymbeline
Movie · as Imogen
The Marble Heart
Movie · as Marie
The Evidence of the Film
Movie · as Sister of Messenger Boy
Little Brother
Movie · as The Sweetheart
Jilted
Movie · as Florence
Jess
Movie · as Jess's Sister, Bess
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Movie · as Myra
My Baby's Voice
Movie · as The Telephone Operator
Whom God Hath Joined
Movie · as Sue
Dottie's New Doll
Movie · as Dottie's Nurse
Lucile
Movie · as Matilda
Undine
Movie · as Undine, the Water Nymph
Flying to Fortune
Movie · as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie · as Jekyll's Sweetheart
The Girl of the Grove
Movie · as The Girl
Rejuvenation
Movie · as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Saleslady
Movie · as Her Sister
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Movie · as Lady Anne
The Voice of Conscience
Movie · as The Orphan's Rival
Star of Bethlehem
Movie · as Mary
Petticoat Camp
Movie
East Lynne
Movie · as Barbara Drew
Under Two Flags
Movie · as The Silver Pheasant
The County's Prize Baby
Movie · as Mary, The Baby's Mother
The Wrecked Taxi
Movie · as The Wife
The Silent Witness
Movie · as The Young Wife
Her Ladyship's Page
Movie · as Her Ladyship
As It Was in the Beginning
Movie · as The Society Girl's Friend
The Trouble Maker
Movie · as The Wife
When a Count Counted
Movie · as Florence
Fighting Blood
Movie · as The Son's Girlfriend
The Buddhist Priestess
Movie
Enoch Arden: Part II
Movie · as Teenage Arden Daughter
The Primal Call
Movie · as A Servant
The Manicure Lady
Movie · as The Rival's Girlfriend
The Rose of Kentucky
Movie
Enoch Arden
Movie · as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
Cinderella
Movie · as Cinderella
In The Chorus
Movie · as The Daughter Grown Up
David Copperfield
Movie · as Em'ly as a Woman
The Trail of Books
Movie · as The Wife
The Indian Brothers
Movie · as Squaw
The Two Paths
Movie
The Diamond Star
Movie
The Spanish Gypsy
Movie · as Gypsy
The Broken Cross
Movie · as Kate
Paradise Lost
Movie · as An Angel/A Maid
Madame Rex
Movie
A Knight of the Road
Movie · as In Kitchen
How She Triumphed
Movie · as Florrie
The New Dress
Movie · as At Wedding
Dave's Love Affair
Movie · as May
Her Sacrifice
Movie · as The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
The Thief and the Girl
Movie · as The Girl
Bobby the Coward
Movie · as The Girl Next Door
The Smuggler
Movie · as The Smuggler's Ward
The Sorrowful Example
Movie · as A Friend
The Blind Princess and the Poet
Movie · as Lady in Waiting
Swords and Hearts
Movie · as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie · as Cora Munro
A Mother's Faith
Movie · as The Loyal Daughter
A Master of Millions
Movie · as Rose (unconfirmed)
The Baseball Bug
Movie · as The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
The Tempest
Movie · as Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
Beneath the Veil
Movie · as The Girl
Taming a Husband
Movie
Serious Sixteen
Movie
A Gold Necklace
Movie
The Troublesome Baby
Movie · as Flo
After the Ball
Movie · as Mrs. Brown
Getting Even
Movie
A Strange Meeting
Movie
Comata, the Sioux
Movie
Through the Breakers
Movie
The Politician's Love Story
Movie
The Salvation Army Lass
Movie
The Seventh Day
Movie
In the Window Recess
Movie