Florence La Badie
Acting
Born 1888-04-26
Died 1917-10-13
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
45 credits
Tannhäuser
Undine
A Knight of the Road
Paradise Lost
Little Brother
Her Sacrifice
Rejuvenation
The Return of Draw Egan
The Blind Princess and the Poet
The Spanish Gypsy
The New Dress
The Tempest
The Troublesome Baby
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Primal Call
War and the Woman
A Disciple of Nietzsche
David Copperfield
After the Ball
Enoch Arden
The Woman in White
Saint, Devil and Woman
Swords and Hearts
The Sorrowful Example
The Last of the Mohicans
Cinderella
The Smuggler
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Her Life and His
Fighting Blood
The Thief and the Girl
The Country Girl
Dave's Love Affair
As It Was in the Beginning
Divorce and the Daughter
Under Two Flags
Crossed Wires
The Broken Cross
How She Triumphed
The Million Dollar Mystery
Whom God Hath Joined
When Love Was Blind
The Evidence of the Film
The Pillory
God's Witness
Other credits
15 credits
The Two Paths
Taming a Husband
The Diamond Star
A Strange Meeting
Getting Even
A Gold Necklace
Through the Breakers
When a Count Counted
The Salvation Army Lass
The Indian Brothers
The Seventh Day
The Politician's Love Story
Madame Rex
In the Window Recess
Comata, the Sioux
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