Florence La Badie
Known for: Acting
Born: April 26, 1888
Died: October 13, 1917
Place of birth: 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.
Advertisement
Filmography
103 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
NR
War and the Woman
1917
4.8
The Man Without a Country
1917
6.7
The Woman in White
1917
10.0
When Love Was Blind
1917NR
Her Life and His
1917
3.0
Divorce and the Daughter
1916
5.2
The Return of Draw Egan
1916
NR
The Pillory
1916NR
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916
9.0
The Fear of Poverty
1916
10.0
The Fugitive
1916
10.0
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916
NR
Mr. Meeson's Will
1915
8.0
A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915
5.0
Crossed Wires
1915NR
The Country Girl
1915NR
The Six-Cent Loaf
19158.0
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915NR
God's Witness
1915
NR
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
19149.0
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914
8.0
The Cat's Paw
1914
NR
The Million Dollar Mystery
19149.0
The Head Waiter
1913
NR
Little Brother
1913
5.0
Tannhäuser
1913
6.5
The Marble Heart
1913
3.5
Cymbeline
1913
6.0
The Evidence of the Film
1913
5.0
Star of Bethlehem
1912
6.0
Petticoat Camp
1912
NR
Lucile
19127.0
The County's Prize Baby
1912
NR
Undine
19124.0
The Voice of Conscience
1912
10.0
When a Count Counted
19127.0
The Wrecked Taxi
1912
6.6
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912
9.0
Under Two Flags
1912
7.0
Dottie's New Doll
1912
10.0
Whom God Hath Joined
1912
10.0
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912
7.0
Jess
1912
10.0
Jilted
1912
9.0
The Saleslady
1912
7.0
Rejuvenation
1912
7.0
The Girl of the Grove
1912
10.0
My Baby's Voice
1912
10.0
Flying to Fortune
19128.0
The Silent Witness
19127.0
The Trouble Maker
19128.0
As It Was in the Beginning
1912
10.0
East Lynne
19127.0
Her Ladyship's Page
1912
5.9
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912
6.4
Cinderella
19117.0
Beneath the Veil
19118.0
The Tempest
191110.0
The Baseball Bug
19118.0
A Master of Millions
191110.0
A Mother's Faith
19117.0
The Last of the Mohicans
1911
NR
The Trail of Books
1911
8.0
David Copperfield
1911
9.0
In The Chorus
1911
10.0
The Buddhist Priestess
1911
4.6
Swords and Hearts
1911
5.6
The Rose of Kentucky
1911NR
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911NR
The Sorrowful Example
19117.0
The Smuggler
1911
4.0
The Indian Brothers
1911
NR
Bobby the Coward
1911NR
The Thief and the Girl
1911
6.3
Fighting Blood
1911NR
Her Sacrifice
1911
4.0
The Primal Call
1911
5.6
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
6.0
Enoch Arden
19117.0
Dave's Love Affair
1911
5.0
The Manicure Lady
1911NR
The New Dress
1911NR
How She Triumphed
1911NR
A Knight of the Road
1911
NR
Madame Rex
1911NR
Paradise Lost
1911NR
The Broken Cross
1911NR
The Spanish Gypsy
1911NR
The Diamond Star
1911
NR
The Two Paths
1911NR
After the Ball
191010.0
The Troublesome Baby
1910
5.5
A Gold Necklace
1910NR
Serious Sixteen
1910
NR
Taming a Husband
1910
4.2
Through the Breakers
19091.5
In the Window Recess
1909
3.8
Getting Even
1909
4.2
Comata, the Sioux
1909
3.0
The Seventh Day
1909
4.3
A Strange Meeting
1909
4.4
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
4.3
The Politician's Love Story
1909