Florence La Badie
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-04-26
Day of Death
1917-10-13 (29 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Florence La Badie
Biography
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
Acting
(1917)
The Woman in White
as Ann Catherick
(1917)
War and the Woman
as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
(1917)
The Man Without a Country
as Barbara Norton
(1917)
When Love Was Blind
as Eleanor Grayson
(1916)
The Fear of Poverty
as Grace Lane
(1916)
The Pillory
as Ruth
(1916)
The Fugitive
as Margery Carew
(1916)
Divorce and the Daughter
as Alicia
(1916)
The Return of Draw Egan
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1915)
The Six-Cent Loaf
as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
(1915)
God's Witness
as Beryl Darcy
(1915)
The Country Girl
as Phyllis, the Country Girl
(1915)
A Freight Car Honeymoon
as Alice Reed - the Bride
(1915)
A Disciple of Nietzsche
as One of the Unfit
(1915)
Crossed Wires
as Flo Drake
(1915)
Mr. Meeson's Will
as Augusta Smithers
(1914)
A Debut in the Secret Service
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
(1914)
The Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Gray Hargreave
(1914)
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
(1914)
The Cat's Paw
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
(1913)
The Evidence of the Film
as Sister of Messenger Boy
(1913)
The Marble Heart
as Marie
(1913)
The Head Waiter
as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
(1913)
Tannhäuser
as Venus
(1913)
Cymbeline
as Imogen
(1912)
Under Two Flags
as The Silver Pheasant
(1912)
Lucile
as Matilda
(1912)
The Portrait of Lady Anne
as Lady Anne
(1912)
Star of Bethlehem
as Mary
(1912)
The Silent Witness
as The Young Wife
(1912)
Flying to Fortune
as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
(1912)
Undine
as Undine, the Water Nymph
(1912)
(1912)
Rejuvenation
as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
(1912)
Jess
as Jess's Sister, Bess
(1912)
The Voice of Conscience
as The Orphan's Rival
(1912)
The Girl of the Grove
as The Girl
(1912)
My Baby's Voice
as The Telephone Operator
(1912)
Dottie's New Doll
as Dottie's Nurse
(1912)
(1912)
The Saleslady
as Her Sister
(1912)
The Wrecked Taxi
as The Wife
(1912)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
(1912)
(1912)
The County's Prize Baby
as Mary, The Baby's Mother
(1912)
Whom God Hath Joined
as Sue
(1912)
East Lynne
as Barbara Drew
(1911)
(1911)
David Copperfield
as Em'ly as a Woman
(1911)
The Manicure Lady
as The Rival's Girlfriend
(1911)
Cinderella
as Cinderella
(1911)
(1911)
(1911)
The Primal Call
as A Servant
(1911)
Enoch Arden
as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
(1911)
The Trail of Books
as The Wife
(1911)
Fighting Blood
as The Son's Girlfriend
(1911)
In The Chorus
as The Daughter Grown Up
(1909)
(1909)
(1909)
(1909)
(1909)
(1909)