Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 26, 1888
Died
Oct 13, 1917
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
103 titles
Florence La Badie
Biography
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
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
Her Life and His
Mary Murdock
Divorce and the Daughter
Alicia
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Pillory
Ruth
Saint, Devil and Woman
Florence Stanton
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Miss Gray
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
The Country Girl
Phyllis, the Country Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Alice Reed - the Bride
God's Witness
Beryl Darcy
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
The Head Waiter
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
Little Brother
The Sweetheart
Tannhäuser
Venus
The Marble Heart
Marie
Cymbeline
Imogen
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
Petticoat Camp
Lucile
Matilda
The County's Prize Baby
Mary, The Baby's Mother
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
The Voice of Conscience
The Orphan's Rival
When a Count Counted
The Wrecked Taxi
The Wife
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
Jilted
The Saleslady
Her Sister
Rejuvenation
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
The Silent Witness
The Young Wife