Florence La Badie
Acting
Born April 26, 1888 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
Films (99)
War and the Woman
1917
The Man Without a Country
1917
The Woman in White
1917
When Love Was Blind
1917
Divorce and the Daughter
1916
The Return of Draw Egan
1916
The Pillory
1916
The Fear of Poverty
1916
The Fugitive
1916
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916
Mr. Meeson's Will
1915
A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915
Crossed Wires
1915
The Country Girl
1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
1915
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915
God's Witness
1915
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914
The Cat's Paw
1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
The Head Waiter
1913
Tannhäuser
1913
The Marble Heart
1913
Cymbeline
1913
The Evidence of the Film
1913
Star of Bethlehem
1912
Petticoat Camp
1912
Lucile
1912
The County's Prize Baby
1912
Undine
1912
The Voice of Conscience
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
1912
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912
Under Two Flags
1912
Dottie's New Doll
1912
Whom God Hath Joined
1912
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912
Jess
1912
Jilted
1912
The Saleslady
1912
Rejuvenation
1912
The Girl of the Grove
1912
My Baby's Voice
1912
Flying to Fortune
1912
The Silent Witness
1912
The Trouble Maker
1912
As It Was in the Beginning
1912
East Lynne
1912
Her Ladyship's Page
1912
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912
Cinderella
1911
Beneath the Veil
1911
The Tempest
1911
The Baseball Bug
1911
A Master of Millions
1911
A Mother's Faith
1911
The Last of the Mohicans
1911
The Trail of Books
1911
David Copperfield
1911
In The Chorus
1911
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
Swords and Hearts
1911
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
The Sorrowful Example
1911
The Smuggler
1911
The Indian Brothers
1911
Bobby the Coward
1911
The Thief and the Girl
1911
Fighting Blood
1911
Her Sacrifice
1911
The Primal Call
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
Enoch Arden
1911
Dave's Love Affair
1911
The Manicure Lady
1911
The New Dress
1911
How She Triumphed
1911
A Knight of the Road
1911
Madame Rex
1911
Paradise Lost
1911
The Broken Cross
1911
The Spanish Gypsy
1911
The Diamond Star
1911
The Two Paths
1911
After the Ball
1910
The Troublesome Baby
1910
A Gold Necklace
1910
Serious Sixteen
1910
Taming a Husband
1910
Through the Breakers
1909
In the Window Recess
1909
Getting Even
1909
Comata, the Sioux
1909
The Seventh Day
1909
A Strange Meeting
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
The Politician's Love Story
1909