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 Woman in White | Ann Catherick | 1917-07-01 |
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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 Fear of Poverty | Grace Lane | 1916-09-10 |
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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 Fugitive | Margery Carew | 1916-08-12 |
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The Pillory | Ruth | 1916-10-08 |
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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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Mr. Meeson's Will | Augusta Smithers | 1915-11-06 |
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A Disciple of Nietzsche | One of the Unfit | 1915-09-25 |
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The Six-Cent Loaf | Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl | 1915-06-08 |
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A Freight Car Honeymoon | Alice Reed - the Bride | 1915-06-06 |
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The Country Girl | Phyllis, the Country Girl | 1915-06-15 |
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The Cat's Paw | Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-03-16 |
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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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The Mohammedan's Conspiracy | Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-05-11 |
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The Marble Heart | Marie | 1913-05-11 |
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Cymbeline | Imogen | 1913-03-27 |
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Tannhäuser | Venus | 1913-07-14 |
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The Head Waiter | Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron | 1913-12-28 |
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The Evidence of the Film | Sister of Messenger Boy | 1913-01-10 |
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The Voice of Conscience | The Orphan's Rival | 1912-09-02 |
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Star of Bethlehem | Mary | 1912-12-24 |
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Petticoat Camp | 1912-11-29 | |
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Under Two Flags | The Silver Pheasant | 1912-07-02 |
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East Lynne | Barbara Drew | 1912-01-26 |
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Flying to Fortune | The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter | 1912-03-12 |
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My Baby's Voice | The Telephone Operator | 1912-03-29 |
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Whom God Hath Joined | Sue | 1912-05-31 |
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee | Myra | 1912-05-24 |
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Dottie's New Doll | Dottie's Nurse | 1912-06-04 |
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Jilted | 1912-05-14 | |
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The Wrecked Taxi | The Wife | 1912-08-16 |
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Jess | Jess's Sister, Bess | 1912-05-21 |
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Undine | Undine, the Water Nymph | 1912-09-24 |
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Lucile | Matilda | 1912-11-27 |
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The Saleslady | 1912-05-06 | |
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The Silent Witness | The Young Wife | 1912-02-13 |
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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 County's Prize Baby | Mary, The Baby's Mother | 1912-11-12 |
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Rejuvenation | The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1912-04-22 |
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The Portrait of Lady Anne | Lady Anne | 1912-07-23 |
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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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The Buddhist Priestess | 1911-09-12 | |
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Fighting Blood | The Son's Girlfriend | 1911-06-28 |
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The Rose of Kentucky | 1911-08-24 | |
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In The Chorus | The Daughter Grown Up | 1911-09-15 |
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Cinderella | Cinderella | 1911-12-21 |
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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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A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-01 | |
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Getting Even | 1909-09-12 | |
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Comata, the Sioux | 1909-09-09 | |
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Through the Breakers | 1909-12-06 |
