Florence La Badie
Acting
- Born:
- 1888-04-26
- Died:
- 1917-10-13
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
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
The Man Without a Country
The Woman in White
When Love Was Blind
Her Life and His
Divorce and the Daughter
The Return of Draw Egan
The Pillory
Saint, Devil and Woman
The Fear of Poverty
The Fugitive
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Mr. Meeson's Will
The Price of Her Silence
A Disciple of Nietzsche
Crossed Wires
The Country Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
A Freight Car Honeymoon
God's Witness
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
A Debut in the Secret Service
The Cat's Paw
The Million Dollar Mystery
The Head Waiter
Little Brother
Tannhäuser
The Marble Heart
Cymbeline
The Evidence of the Film
Star of Bethlehem
Petticoat Camp
Lucile
The County's Prize Baby
Undine
The Voice of Conscience
When a Count Counted
The Wrecked Taxi
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Under Two Flags
Dottie's New Doll
Whom God Hath Joined
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Jess
Jilted
The Saleslady
Rejuvenation
The Girl of the Grove
My Baby's Voice
Flying to Fortune
The Silent Witness
The Trouble Maker
As It Was in the Beginning
East Lynne
Her Ladyship's Page
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Cinderella
Beneath the Veil
The Tempest
The Baseball Bug
A Master of Millions
A Mother's Faith
The Last of the Mohicans
The Trail of Books
David Copperfield
In The Chorus
The Buddhist Priestess
Swords and Hearts
The Rose of Kentucky
The Blind Princess and the Poet
The Sorrowful Example
The Smuggler
The Indian Brothers
Bobby the Coward
The Thief and the Girl
Fighting Blood
Her Sacrifice
The Primal Call
Enoch Arden: Part II
Enoch Arden
Dave's Love Affair
The Manicure Lady
The New Dress
How She Triumphed
A Knight of the Road
Madame Rex
Paradise Lost
The Broken Cross
The Spanish Gypsy
The Diamond Star
The Two Paths
After the Ball
The Troublesome Baby
A Gold Necklace
Serious Sixteen
Taming a Husband
Through the Breakers
In the Window Recess
Getting Even
Comata, the Sioux
The Seventh Day
A Strange Meeting
The Salvation Army Lass
The Politician's Love Story