Florence La Badie
Biography
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.
Known For
The Son's Girlfriend
Fighting Blood
The Buddhist Priestess
The Telephone Operator
My Baby's Voice
Jilted
Jess's Sister, Bess
Jess
Myra
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Sue
Whom God Hath Joined
Dottie's Nurse
Dottie's New Doll
Matilda
Lucile
Undine, the Water Nymph
Undine
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
The Head Waiter
Enoch Arden: Part II
Barbara Norton
The Man Without a Country
Florence Gray Hargreave
The Million Dollar Mystery
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
War and the Woman
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Margery Carew
The Fugitive
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
Venus
Tannhäuser
Getting Even
A Servant
The Primal Call
Ann Catherick
The Woman in White
Imogen
Cymbeline
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
Flying to Fortune
Jekyll's Sweetheart
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Girl
The Girl of the Grove
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Rejuvenation
The Saleslady
The Rival's Girlfriend
The Manicure Lady
Lady Anne
The Portrait of Lady Anne
A Strange Meeting
The Rose of Kentucky
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Return of Draw Egan
The Orphan's Rival
The Voice of Conscience
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
Enoch Arden
Marie
The Marble Heart
Flo Drake
Crossed Wires
Petticoat Camp
Mary
Star of Bethlehem
Sister of Messenger Boy
The Evidence of the Film
Cinderella
Cinderella
Barbara Drew
East Lynne
Comata, the Sioux
Ruth
The Pillory
Divorce and the Daughter
The Silver Pheasant
Under Two Flags
The Daughter Grown Up
In The Chorus
Em'ly as a Woman
David Copperfield
Through the Breakers
Eleanor Grayson
When Love Was Blind
One of the Unfit
A Disciple of Nietzsche
Phyllis, the Country Girl
The Country Girl
Alice Reed - the Bride
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
Augusta Smithers
Mr. Meeson's Will
Mary, The Baby's Mother
The County's Prize Baby
The Wife
The Wrecked Taxi
The Young Wife
The Silent Witness
Grace Lane
The Fear of Poverty
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
Beryl Darcy
God's Witness
The Politician's Love Story
The Wife
The Trail of Books
The Salvation Army Lass
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
64
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-04-26
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Florence Russ