Florence La Badie
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.
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- 1917 · War and the Woman as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
- 1917 · The Man Without a Country as Barbara Norton
- 1917 · The Woman in White as Ann Catherick
- 1917 · When Love Was Blind as Eleanor Grayson
- 1916 · Divorce and the Daughter as
- 1916 · The Return of Draw Egan as Townswoman (uncredited)
- 1916 · The Pillory as Ruth
- 1916 · The Fugitive as Margery Carew
- 1915 · Mr. Meeson's Will as Augusta Smithers
- 1915 · A Disciple of Nietzsche as One of the Unfit
- 1915 · Crossed Wires as Flo Drake
- 1915 · The Country Girl as Phyllis, the Country Girl
- 1915 · A Freight Car Honeymoon as Alice Reed - the Bride
- 1914 · The Mohammedan's Conspiracy as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
- 1914 · A Debut in the Secret Service as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
- 1914 · The Cat's Paw as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
- 1914 · The Million Dollar Mystery as Florence Gray Hargreave
- 1913 · The Head Waiter as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
- 1913 · Tannhäuser as Venus
- 1913 · The Marble Heart as Marie
- 1913 · Cymbeline as Imogen
- 1913 · The Evidence of the Film as Sister of Messenger Boy
- 1912 · Star of Bethlehem as Mary
- 1912 · Petticoat Camp as
- 1912 · Lucile as Matilda
- 1912 · The County's Prize Baby as Mary, The Baby's Mother
- 1912 · Undine as Undine, the Water Nymph
- 1912 · The Voice of Conscience as The Orphan's Rival
- 1912 · The Wrecked Taxi as The Wife
- 1912 · The Portrait of Lady Anne as Lady Anne
- 1912 · Under Two Flags as The Silver Pheasant
- 1912 · Dottie's New Doll as Dottie's Nurse
- 1912 · Whom God Hath Joined as Sue
- 1912 · The Ring of a Spanish Grandee as Myra
- 1912 · Jess as Jess's Sister, Bess
- 1912 · Jilted as
- 1912 · The Saleslady as
- 1912 · Rejuvenation as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
- 1912 · The Girl of the Grove as The Girl
- 1912 · My Baby's Voice as The Telephone Operator
- 1912 · Flying to Fortune as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
- 1912 · East Lynne as Barbara Drew
- 1912 · Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Jekyll's Sweetheart
- 1911 · Cinderella as Cinderella
- 1911 · David Copperfield as Em'ly as a Woman
- 1911 · In The Chorus as The Daughter Grown Up
- 1911 · The Buddhist Priestess as
- 1911 · The Rose of Kentucky as
- 1911 · Fighting Blood as The Son's Girlfriend
- 1911 · The Primal Call as A Servant
- 1911 · Enoch Arden: Part II as
- 1911 · Enoch Arden as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
- 1911 · The Manicure Lady as The Rival's Girlfriend
- 1909 · Through the Breakers as
- 1909 · Getting Even as
- 1909 · Comata, the Sioux as
- 1909 · A Strange Meeting as