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