1888-04-26 New York City, New York, USA
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.
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The Man Without a Country | Barbara Norton | 1917-09-08 |
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War and the Woman | Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter | 1917-09-09 |
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When Love Was Blind | Eleanor Grayson | 1917-04-15 |
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The Woman in White | Ann Catherick | 1917-07-01 |
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The Fear of Poverty | Grace Lane | 1916-09-10 |
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The Pillory | Ruth | 1916-10-08 |
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The Fugitive | Margery Carew | 1916-08-12 |
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The Return of Draw Egan | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1916-10-14 |
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Divorce and the Daughter | 1916-12-03 | |
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The Six-Cent Loaf | Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl | 1915-06-08 |
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God's Witness | Beryl Darcy | 1915-05-20 |
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Crossed Wires | Flo Drake | 1915-06-28 |
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A Disciple of Nietzsche | One of the Unfit | 1915-09-25 |
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The Country Girl | Phyllis, the Country Girl | 1915-06-15 |
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A Freight Car Honeymoon | Alice Reed - the Bride | 1915-06-06 |
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Mr. Meeson's Will | Augusta Smithers | 1915-11-06 |
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The Cat's Paw | Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-03-16 |
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The Mohammedan's Conspiracy | Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-05-11 |
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A Debut in the Secret Service | Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-04-07 |
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The Million Dollar Mystery | Florence Gray Hargreave | 1914-01-02 |
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Tannhäuser | Venus | 1913-07-14 |
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The Marble Heart | Marie | 1913-05-11 |
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The Evidence of the Film | Sister of Messenger Boy | 1913-01-10 |
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Cymbeline | Imogen | 1913-03-27 |
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The Head Waiter | Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron | 1913-12-28 |
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Under Two Flags | The Silver Pheasant | 1912-07-02 |
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The Voice of Conscience | The Orphan's Rival | 1912-09-02 |
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East Lynne | Barbara Drew | 1912-01-26 |
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Star of Bethlehem | Mary | 1912-12-24 |
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The County's Prize Baby | Mary, The Baby's Mother | 1912-11-12 |
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Petticoat Camp | 1912-11-29 | |
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Flying to Fortune | The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter | 1912-03-12 |
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Whom God Hath Joined | Sue | 1912-05-31 |
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Dottie's New Doll | Dottie's Nurse | 1912-06-04 |
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee | Myra | 1912-05-24 |
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Jess | Jess's Sister, Bess | 1912-05-21 |
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My Baby's Voice | The Telephone Operator | 1912-03-29 |
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Jilted | 1912-05-14 | |
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Lucile | Matilda | 1912-11-27 |
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Undine | Undine, the Water Nymph | 1912-09-24 |
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The Silent Witness | The Young Wife | 1912-02-13 |
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The Portrait of Lady Anne | Lady Anne | 1912-07-23 |
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The Saleslady | 1912-05-06 | |
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Rejuvenation | The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1912-04-22 |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Jekyll's Sweetheart | 1912-01-16 |
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The Girl of the Grove | The Girl | 1912-04-04 |
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The Wrecked Taxi | The Wife | 1912-08-16 |
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The Trail of Books | The Wife | 1911-11-09 |
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The Rose of Kentucky | 1911-08-24 | |
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Fighting Blood | The Son's Girlfriend | 1911-06-28 |
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The Buddhist Priestess | 1911-09-12 | |
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The Manicure Lady | The Rival's Girlfriend | 1911-05-18 |
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The Primal Call | A Servant | 1911-06-21 |
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Enoch Arden: Part II | 1911-06-15 | |
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Enoch Arden | Enoch's Teenage Daughter | 1911-06-15 |
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David Copperfield | Em'ly as a Woman | 1911-10-17 |
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Cinderella | Cinderella | 1911-12-21 |
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In The Chorus | The Daughter Grown Up | 1911-09-15 |
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The Politician's Love Story | 1909-02-21 | |
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The Salvation Army Lass | 1909-03-11 | |
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A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-02 | |
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Comata, the Sioux | 1909-09-09 | |
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Through the Breakers | 1909-12-06 | |
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Getting Even | 1909-09-12 |
