Florence La Badie
Actor
Born April 26, 1888 in 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.
Filmography
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
Divorce and the Daughter
Alicia
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Pillory
Ruth
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Miss Gray
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
Little Brother
The Sweetheart
Tannhäuser
Venus
The Marble Heart
Marie
Cymbeline
Imogen
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
Petticoat Camp
Lucile
Matilda
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
When a Count Counted
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
Jilted
The Saleslady
Her Sister
Rejuvenation
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
Cinderella
Cinderella
The Trail of Books
The Wife
David Copperfield
Em'ly as a Woman
In The Chorus
The Daughter Grown Up
The Buddhist Priestess
Swords and Hearts
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Rose of Kentucky
The Indian Brothers
Bobby the Coward
The Girl Next Door
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
The Primal Call
A Servant
Enoch Arden: Part II
Teenage Arden Daughter
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
Madame Rex
The Two Paths
A Gold Necklace
Taming a Husband
Through the Breakers
Getting Even
Comata, the Sioux
The Seventh Day
A Strange Meeting
The Salvation Army Lass
The Politician's Love Story