
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.

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