Florence La Badie

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

138

Movies

103

Born: April 26, 1888 – October 13, 1917
From: 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.

Works

103 films

Tannhäuser

19135.0

Undine

1912

Her Sacrifice

1911

Paradise Lost

1911

Little Brother

1913

Rejuvenation

19127.0

Taming a Husband

1910

A Knight of the Road

1911

The Tempest

19118.0

The Diamond Star

1911

Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player

191610.0

Her Life and His

1917

As It Was in the Beginning

19128.0

A Disciple of Nietzsche

19158.0

The Blind Princess and the Poet

1911

Dottie's New Doll

19127.0

In the Window Recess

19091.5

How She Triumphed

1911

The Sorrowful Example

1911

Saint, Devil and Woman

1916

Dave's Love Affair

19117.0

The Two Paths

1911

The Politician's Love Story

19094.3

When a Count Counted

191210.0

The Broken Cross

1911

The Primal Call

19114.0

A Strange Meeting

19094.3

The Spanish Gypsy

1911

Bobby the Coward

1911

Whom God Hath Joined

191210.0

The Woman in White

19176.7

The Return of Draw Egan

19165.2

The Last of the Mohicans

19117.0

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

19125.9

The New Dress

1911

After the Ball

1910

The Indian Brothers

19114.0

In The Chorus

19119.0

Enoch Arden: Part II

19115.6

David Copperfield

19118.0

A Master of Millions

19118.0

Enoch Arden

19116.0

The Baseball Bug

191110.0

The Thief and the Girl

1911

Swords and Hearts

19114.6

Serious Sixteen

1910

When Love Was Blind

191710.0

The Pillory

1916

Under Two Flags

19129.0

Getting Even

19093.8

The Fugitive

191610.0

Crossed Wires

19155.0

The Rose of Kentucky

19115.6

The Smuggler

19117.0

The Salvation Army Lass

19094.4

The Million Dollar Mystery

1914

Fighting Blood

19116.3

The Saleslady

19129.0

Cinderella

19116.4

East Lynne

191210.0

The Seventh Day

19093.0

Comata, the Sioux

19094.2

Madame Rex

1911

Cymbeline

19133.5

Jilted

191210.0

The Man Without a Country

19174.8

Star of Bethlehem

19125.0

The Manicure Lady

19115.0

The Marble Heart

19136.5

Through the Breakers

19094.2

A Gold Necklace

19105.5

A Debut in the Secret Service

19149.0

Jess

19127.0

The Cat's Paw

19148.0

The Troublesome Baby

191010.0

Lucile

1912

Beneath the Veil

19117.0

The Mohammedan's Conspiracy

1914

The Six-Cent Loaf

1915

The Portrait of Lady Anne

19126.6

Divorce and the Daughter

19163.0

God's Witness

1915

The Trail of Books

1911

A Mother's Faith

191110.0

My Baby's Voice

191210.0

The Girl of the Grove

19127.0

Her Ladyship's Page

19127.0

The Ring of a Spanish Grandee

191210.0

War and the Woman

1917

The Country Girl

1915

The Voice of Conscience

19124.0

The Fear of Poverty

19169.0

The Evidence of the Film

19136.0

Flying to Fortune

191210.0

Mr. Meeson's Will

1915

The Silent Witness

19128.0

The Wrecked Taxi

19127.0

Petticoat Camp

19126.0

A Freight Car Honeymoon

19158.0

The County's Prize Baby

19127.0

The Head Waiter

19139.0

The Trouble Maker

19127.0

The Buddhist Priestess

191110.0