Florence La Badie

Acting

Born April 26, 1888, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

• 1917Her Life and His — Mary Murdock
• 1917The Man Without a Country — Barbara Norton
• 1917The Woman in White — Ann Catherick
• 1917War and the Woman — Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
• 1917When Love Was Blind — Eleanor Grayson
• 1916Divorce and the Daughter — Alicia
• 1916Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player — Miss Gray
• 1916Saint, Devil and Woman — Florence Stanton
• 1916The Fear of Poverty — Grace Lane
• 1916The Fugitive — Margery Carew
• 1916The Pillory — Ruth
• 1916The Return of Draw Egan — Townswoman (uncredited)
• 1915A Disciple of Nietzsche — One of the Unfit
• 1915A Freight Car Honeymoon — Alice Reed - the Bride
• 1915Crossed Wires — Flo Drake
• 1915God's Witness — Beryl Darcy
• 1915Mr. Meeson's Will — Augusta Smithers
• 1915The Country Girl — Phyllis, the Country Girl
• 1915The Price of Her Silence — The Elder Sister
• 1915The Six-Cent Loaf — Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
• 1914A Debut in the Secret Service — Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
• 1914The Cat's Paw — Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
• 1914The Million Dollar Mystery — Florence Gray Hargreave
• 1914The Mohammedan's Conspiracy — Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
• 1913Cymbeline — Imogen
• 1913Little Brother — The Sweetheart
• 1913Tannhäuser — Venus
• 1913The Evidence of the Film — Sister of Messenger Boy
• 1913The Head Waiter — Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
• 1913The Marble Heart — Marie
• 1912As It Was in the Beginning — The Society Girl's Friend
• 1912Dottie's New Doll — Dottie's Nurse
• 1912Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Jekyll's Sweetheart
• 1912East Lynne — Barbara Drew
• 1912Flying to Fortune — The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
• 1912Her Ladyship's Page — Her Ladyship
• 1912Jess — Jess's Sister, Bess
• 1912Jilted — Florence
• 1912Lucile — Matilda
• 1912My Baby's Voice — The Telephone Operator
• 1912Petticoat Camp
• 1912Rejuvenation — The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
• 1912Star of Bethlehem — Mary
• 1912The County's Prize Baby — Mary, The Baby's Mother
• 1912The Girl of the Grove — The Girl
• 1912The Portrait of Lady Anne — Lady Anne
• 1912The Ring of a Spanish Grandee — Myra
• 1912The Saleslady — Her Sister
• 1912The Silent Witness — The Young Wife
• 1912The Trouble Maker — The Wife
• 1912The Voice of Conscience — The Orphan's Rival
• 1912The Wrecked Taxi — The Wife
• 1912Under Two Flags — The Silver Pheasant
• 1912Undine — Undine, the Water Nymph
• 1912When a Count Counted — Florence
• 1912Whom God Hath Joined — Sue
• 1911A Knight of the Road — In Kitchen
• 1911A Master of Millions — Rose (unconfirmed)
• 1911A Mother's Faith — The Loyal Daughter
• 1911Beneath the Veil — The Girl
• 1911Bobby the Coward — The Girl Next Door
• 1911Cinderella — Cinderella
• 1911Dave's Love Affair — May
• 1911David Copperfield — Em'ly as a Woman
• 1911Enoch Arden — Enoch's Teenage Daughter
• 1911Enoch Arden: Part II — Teenage Arden Daughter
• 1911Fighting Blood — The Son's Girlfriend
• 1911Her Sacrifice — The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
• 1911How She Triumphed — Florrie
• 1911In The Chorus — The Daughter Grown Up
• 1911Madame Rex
• 1911Paradise Lost — An Angel/A Maid
• 1911Swords and Hearts — Undetermined Role (uncredited)
• 1911The Baseball Bug — The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
• 1911The Blind Princess and the Poet — Lady in Waiting
• 1911The Broken Cross — Kate
• 1911The Buddhist Priestess
• 1911The Diamond Star
• 1911The Indian Brothers — Squaw
• 1911The Last of the Mohicans — Cora Munro
• 1911The Manicure Lady — The Rival's Girlfriend
• 1911The New Dress — At Wedding
• 1911The Primal Call — A Servant
• 1911The Rose of Kentucky
• 1911The Smuggler — The Smuggler's Ward
• 1911The Sorrowful Example — A Friend
• 1911The Spanish Gypsy — Gypsy
• 1911The Tempest — Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
• 1911The Thief and the Girl — The Girl
• 1911The Trail of Books — The Wife
• 1911The Two Paths
• 1910A Gold Necklace
• 1910After the Ball — Mrs. Brown
• 1910Serious Sixteen
• 1910Taming a Husband
• 1910The Troublesome Baby — Flo
• 1909A Strange Meeting
• 1909Comata, the Sioux
• 1909Getting Even
• 1909In the Window Recess
• 1909The Politician's Love Story
• 1909The Salvation Army Lass
• 1909The Seventh Day
• 1909Through the Breakers