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