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 | 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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The Pillory | 1916-10-08 | |
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Divorce and the Daughter | 1916-12-03 | |
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The Return of Draw Egan | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1916-10-14 |
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The Fugitive | Margery Carew | 1916-08-12 |
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Crossed Wires | Flo Drake | 1915-06-28 |
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The Mohammedan's Conspiracy | Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-05-11 |
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The Cat's Paw | Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward | 1914-03-16 |
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The Million Dollar Mystery | Florence Gray Hargreave | 1914-01-02 |
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The Evidence of the Film | Sister of Messenger Boy | 1913-01-10 |
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The Head Waiter | Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron | 1913-12-28 |
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The Marble Heart | Marie | 1913-05-11 |
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Tannhäuser | Venus | 1913-07-14 |
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Cymbeline | Imogen | 1913-03-27 |
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee | Myra | 1912-05-24 |
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East Lynne | Barbara Drew | 1912-01-26 |
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Whom God Hath Joined | Sue | 1912-05-31 |
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Flying to Fortune | The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter | 1912-03-12 |
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Under Two Flags | The Silver Pheasant | 1912-07-02 |
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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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Jess | Jess's Sister, Bess | 1912-05-21 |
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The Voice of Conscience | The Orphan's Rival | 1912-09-02 |
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The Girl of the Grove | The Girl | 1912-04-04 |
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Dottie's New Doll | Dottie's Nurse | 1912-06-04 |
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Undine | Undine, the Water Nymph | 1912-09-24 |
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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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Jekyll's Sweetheart | 1912-01-16 |
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Petticoat Camp | 1912-11-29 | |
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Lucile | Matilda | 1912-11-27 |
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Star of Bethlehem | Mary | 1912-12-24 |
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Rejuvenation | The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1912-04-22 |
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The Buddhist Priestess | 1911-09-12 | |
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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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Cinderella | Cinderella | 1911-12-21 |
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The Rose of Kentucky | 1911-08-24 | |
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The Manicure Lady | The Rival's Girlfriend | 1911-05-18 |
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Fighting Blood | The Son's Girlfriend | 1911-06-28 |
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Enoch Arden | Enoch's Teenage Daughter | 1911-06-15 |
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In The Chorus | The Daughter Grown Up | 1911-09-15 |
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David Copperfield | Em'ly as a Woman | 1911-10-17 |
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Through the Breakers | 1909-12-06 | |
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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 |
