Florence La Badie
Acting • Born 1888-04-26 – Died 1917-10-13
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Fighting Blood
Movie • 1911
The Son's Girlfriend
The Buddhist Priestess
Movie • 1911
My Baby's Voice
Movie • 1912
The Telephone Operator
Jilted
Movie • 1912
Jess
Movie • 1912
Jess's Sister, Bess
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Movie • 1912
Myra
Whom God Hath Joined
Movie • 1912
Sue
Dottie's New Doll
Movie • 1912
Dottie's Nurse
Lucile
Movie • 1912
Matilda
Undine
Movie • 1912
Undine, the Water Nymph
The Head Waiter
Movie • 1913
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
Enoch Arden: Part II
Movie • 1911
Teenage Arden Daughter
The Man Without a Country
Movie • 1917
Barbara Norton
The Million Dollar Mystery
Movie • 1914
Florence Gray Hargreave
War and the Woman
Movie • 1917
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Movie • 1914
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Fugitive
Movie • 1916
Margery Carew
The Cat's Paw
Movie • 1914
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
Tannhäuser
Movie • 1913
Venus
Getting Even
Movie • 1909
The Primal Call
Movie • 1911
A Servant
The Woman in White
Movie • 1917
Ann Catherick
Cymbeline
Movie • 1913
Imogen
Flying to Fortune
Movie • 1912
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1912
Jekyll's Sweetheart
The Girl of the Grove
Movie • 1912
The Girl
Rejuvenation
Movie • 1912
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Saleslady
Movie • 1912
Her Sister
The Manicure Lady
Movie • 1911
The Rival's Girlfriend
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Movie • 1912
Lady Anne
A Strange Meeting
Movie • 1909
The Rose of Kentucky
Movie • 1911
The Return of Draw Egan
Movie • 1916
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Voice of Conscience
Movie • 1912
The Orphan's Rival
Enoch Arden
Movie • 1911
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
The Marble Heart
Movie • 1913
Marie
Crossed Wires
Movie • 1915
Flo Drake
Petticoat Camp
Movie • 1912
Star of Bethlehem
Movie • 1912
Mary
The Evidence of the Film
Movie • 1913
Sister of Messenger Boy
Cinderella
Movie • 1911
Cinderella
East Lynne
Movie • 1912
Barbara Drew
Comata, the Sioux
Movie • 1909
The Pillory
Movie • 1916
Ruth
Divorce and the Daughter
Movie • 1916
Alicia
Under Two Flags
Movie • 1912
The Silver Pheasant
In The Chorus
Movie • 1911
The Daughter Grown Up
David Copperfield
Movie • 1911
Em'ly as a Woman
Through the Breakers
Movie • 1909
When Love Was Blind
Movie • 1917
Eleanor Grayson
A Disciple of Nietzsche
Movie • 1915
One of the Unfit
The Country Girl
Movie • 1915
Phyllis, the Country Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Movie • 1915
Alice Reed - the Bride
A Debut in the Secret Service
Movie • 1914
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
Mr. Meeson's Will
Movie • 1915
Augusta Smithers
The County's Prize Baby
Movie • 1912
Mary, The Baby's Mother
The Wrecked Taxi
Movie • 1912
The Wife
The Silent Witness
Movie • 1912
The Young Wife
The Fear of Poverty
Movie • 1916
Grace Lane
The Six-Cent Loaf
Movie • 1915
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
God's Witness
Movie • 1915
Beryl Darcy
The Politician's Love Story
Movie • 1909
The Trail of Books
Movie • 1911
The Wife
The Salvation Army Lass
Movie • 1909
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Movie • 1916
Miss Gray
The Indian Brothers
Movie • 1911
The Seventh Day
Movie • 1909
In the Window Recess
Movie • 1909
Taming a Husband
Movie • 1910
Serious Sixteen
Movie • 1910
A Gold Necklace
Movie • 1910
The Troublesome Baby
Movie • 1910
After the Ball
Movie • 1910
Mrs. Brown
The Two Paths
Movie • 1911
The Diamond Star
Movie • 1911
The Spanish Gypsy
Movie • 1911
Gypsy
The Broken Cross
Movie • 1911
Kate
Paradise Lost
Movie • 1911
An Angel/A Maid
Madame Rex
Movie • 1911
A Knight of the Road
Movie • 1911
In Kitchen
How She Triumphed
Movie • 1911
The New Dress
Movie • 1911
At Wedding
Dave's Love Affair
Movie • 1911
May
Her Sacrifice
Movie • 1911
The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
The Thief and the Girl
Movie • 1911
The Girl
Bobby the Coward
Movie • 1911
The Girl Next Door
The Smuggler
Movie • 1911
The Smuggler's Ward
The Sorrowful Example
Movie • 1911
The Blind Princess and the Poet
Movie • 1911
Lady in Waiting
Swords and Hearts
Movie • 1911
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie • 1911
The Elder Sister
A Mother's Faith
Movie • 1911
The Loyal Daughter
A Master of Millions
Movie • 1911
Rose (unconfirmed)
The Baseball Bug
Movie • 1911
The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
The Tempest
Movie • 1911
Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
Beneath the Veil
Movie • 1911
The Girl
Her Ladyship's Page
Movie • 1912
Her Ladyship
As It Was in the Beginning
Movie • 1912
The Trouble Maker
Movie • 1912
The Wife