Florence La Badie
Acting
1888-04-26 · 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.
Filmography
War and the Woman
1917 · Movie
The Man Without a Country
1917 · Movie
The Woman in White
1917 · Movie
When Love Was Blind
1917 · Movie
Her Life and His
1917 · Movie
Divorce and the Daughter
1916 · Movie
The Return of Draw Egan
1916 · Movie
The Pillory
1916 · Movie
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916 · Movie
The Fear of Poverty
1916 · Movie
The Fugitive
1916 · Movie
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916 · Movie
Mr. Meeson's Will
1915 · Movie
The Price of Her Silence
1915 · Movie
A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915 · Movie
Crossed Wires
1915 · Movie
The Country Girl
1915 · Movie
The Six-Cent Loaf
1915 · Movie
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915 · Movie
God's Witness
1915 · Movie
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914 · Movie
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914 · Movie
The Cat's Paw
1914 · Movie
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914 · Movie
The Head Waiter
1913 · Movie
Little Brother
1913 · Movie
Tannhäuser
1913 · Movie
The Marble Heart
1913 · Movie
Cymbeline
1913 · Movie
The Evidence of the Film
1913 · Movie
Star of Bethlehem
1912 · Movie
Petticoat Camp
1912 · Movie
Lucile
1912 · Movie
The County's Prize Baby
1912 · Movie
Undine
1912 · Movie
The Voice of Conscience
1912 · Movie
When a Count Counted
1912 · Movie
The Wrecked Taxi
1912 · Movie
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912 · Movie
Under Two Flags
1912 · Movie
Dottie's New Doll
1912 · Movie
Whom God Hath Joined
1912 · Movie
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912 · Movie
Jess
1912 · Movie
Jilted
1912 · Movie
The Saleslady
1912 · Movie
Rejuvenation
1912 · Movie
The Girl of the Grove
1912 · Movie
My Baby's Voice
1912 · Movie
Flying to Fortune
1912 · Movie
The Silent Witness
1912 · Movie
The Trouble Maker
1912 · Movie
As It Was in the Beginning
1912 · Movie
East Lynne
1912 · Movie
Her Ladyship's Page
1912 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912 · Movie
Cinderella
1911 · Movie
Beneath the Veil
1911 · Movie
The Tempest
1911 · Movie
The Baseball Bug
1911 · Movie
A Master of Millions
1911 · Movie
A Mother's Faith
1911 · Movie
The Last of the Mohicans
1911 · Movie
The Trail of Books
1911 · Movie
David Copperfield
1911 · Movie
In The Chorus
1911 · Movie
The Buddhist Priestess
1911 · Movie
Swords and Hearts
1911 · Movie
The Rose of Kentucky
1911 · Movie
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911 · Movie
The Sorrowful Example
1911 · Movie
The Smuggler
1911 · Movie
The Indian Brothers
1911 · Movie
Bobby the Coward
1911 · Movie
The Thief and the Girl
1911 · Movie
Fighting Blood
1911 · Movie
Her Sacrifice
1911 · Movie
The Primal Call
1911 · Movie
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911 · Movie
Enoch Arden
1911 · Movie
Dave's Love Affair
1911 · Movie
The Manicure Lady
1911 · Movie
The New Dress
1911 · Movie
How She Triumphed
1911 · Movie
A Knight of the Road
1911 · Movie
Madame Rex
1911 · Movie
Paradise Lost
1911 · Movie
The Broken Cross
1911 · Movie
The Spanish Gypsy
1911 · Movie
The Diamond Star
1911 · Movie
The Two Paths
1911 · Movie
After the Ball
1910 · Movie
The Troublesome Baby
1910 · Movie
A Gold Necklace
1910 · Movie
Serious Sixteen
1910 · Movie
Taming a Husband
1910 · Movie
Through the Breakers
1909 · Movie
In the Window Recess
1909 · Movie
Getting Even
1909 · Movie
Comata, the Sioux
1909 · Movie
The Seventh Day
1909 · Movie
A Strange Meeting
1909 · Movie
The Salvation Army Lass
1909 · Movie
The Politician's Love Story
1909 · Movie