Florence La Badie

Known for ActingBorn 1888-04-26Died 1917-10-13New 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.Read more

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When Love Was Blind

The Fugitive

Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player

My Baby's Voice

Jilted

The Ring of a Spanish Grandee

Whom God Hath Joined

Flying to Fortune

East Lynne

When a Count Counted

The Buddhist Priestess

A Mother's Faith

The Baseball Bug

The Troublesome Baby

The Fear of Poverty

A Debut in the Secret Service

The Head Waiter

The Saleslady

Under Two Flags

In The Chorus

A Disciple of Nietzsche

A Freight Car Honeymoon

The Cat's Paw

The Silent Witness

As It Was in the Beginning

David Copperfield

A Master of Millions

The Tempest

Jess

Dottie's New Doll

The Girl of the Grove

Rejuvenation

The County's Prize Baby

The Wrecked Taxi

Her Ladyship's Page

The Trouble Maker

Dave's Love Affair

The Smuggler

The Last of the Mohicans

Beneath the Veil

The Woman in White

The Portrait of Lady Anne

The Marble Heart

Cinderella

Fighting Blood

Petticoat Camp

Enoch Arden

The Evidence of the Film