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Florence La Badie
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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 adaptatio…
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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.
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Florence La Badie's Filmography
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War and the Woman
as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Man Without a Country
as Barbara Norton
The Woman in White
as Ann Catherick
When Love Was Blind
as Eleanor Grayson
No Poster
Her Life and His
as Mary Murdock
Divorce and the Daughter
as Alicia
The Return of Draw Egan
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Pillory
as Ruth
No Poster
Saint, Devil and Woman
as Florence Stanton
The Fear of Poverty
as Grace Lane
The Fugitive
as Margery Carew
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
as Miss Gray
Mr. Meeson's Will
as Augusta Smithers
No Poster
The Price of Her Silence
A Disciple of Nietzsche
as One of the Unfit
Crossed Wires
as Flo Drake
No Poster
The Country Girl
as Phyllis, the Country Girl
No Poster
The Six-Cent Loaf
as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
No Poster
A Freight Car Honeymoon
as Alice Reed - the Bride
No Poster
God's Witness
as Beryl Darcy
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
No Poster
A Debut in the Secret Service
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Gray Hargreave
No Poster
The Head Waiter
as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
Little Brother
as The Sweetheart
Tannhäuser
as Venus
The Marble Heart
as Marie
Cymbeline
as Imogen
The Evidence of the Film
as Sister of Messenger Boy
Star of Bethlehem
as Mary
Petticoat Camp
Lucile
as Matilda
No Poster
The County's Prize Baby
as Mary, The Baby's Mother
Undine
as Undine, the Water Nymph
No Poster
The Voice of Conscience
as The Orphan's Rival
When a Count Counted
No Poster
The Wrecked Taxi
as The Wife
The Portrait of Lady Anne
as Lady Anne
Under Two Flags
as The Silver Pheasant
Dottie's New Doll
as Dottie's Nurse
Whom God Hath Joined
as Sue
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
as Myra
Jess
as Jess's Sister, Bess
Jilted
The Saleslady
as Her Sister
No Poster
Rejuvenation
as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Girl of the Grove
as The Girl
My Baby's Voice
as The Telephone Operator
Flying to Fortune
as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
No Poster
The Silent Witness
as The Young Wife
No Poster
The Trouble Maker
as The Wife
No Poster
As It Was in the Beginning
as The Society Girl's Friend
East Lynne
as Barbara Drew
No Poster
Her Ladyship's Page
as Her Ladyship
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
Cinderella
as Cinderella
No Poster
Beneath the Veil
as The Girl
No Poster
The Tempest
as Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
No Poster
The Baseball Bug
as The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
No Poster
A Master of Millions
as Rose (unconfirmed)
No Poster
A Mother's Faith
as The Loyal Daughter
No Poster
The Last of the Mohicans
as Cora Munro
The Trail of Books
as The Wife
David Copperfield
as Em'ly as a Woman
In The Chorus
as The Daughter Grown Up
The Buddhist Priestess
Swords and Hearts
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Rose of Kentucky
No Poster
The Blind Princess and the Poet
as Lady in Waiting
No Poster
The Sorrowful Example
as A Friend
No Poster
The Smuggler
as The Smuggler's Ward
The Indian Brothers
Bobby the Coward
as The Girl Next Door
No Poster
The Thief and the Girl
as The Girl
Fighting Blood
as The Son's Girlfriend
No Poster
Her Sacrifice
as The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
The Primal Call
as A Servant
Enoch Arden: Part II
as Teenage Arden Daughter
Enoch Arden
as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
No Poster
Dave's Love Affair
as May
The Manicure Lady
as The Rival's Girlfriend
No Poster
The New Dress
as At Wedding
No Poster
How She Triumphed
as Florrie
No Poster
A Knight of the Road
as In Kitchen
Madame Rex
No Poster
Paradise Lost
as An Angel/A Maid
No Poster
The Broken Cross
as Kate
No Poster
The Spanish Gypsy
as Gypsy
No Poster
The Diamond Star
The Two Paths
No Poster
After the Ball
as Mrs. Brown
No Poster
The Troublesome Baby
as Flo
A Gold Necklace
No Poster
Serious Sixteen
Taming a Husband
Through the Breakers
No Poster
In the Window Recess
Getting Even
Comata, the Sioux
The Seventh Day
A Strange Meeting
The Salvation Army Lass
