Florence La Badie
Age: 29 | From: New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1888-04-27 08:58:09
Death: 1917-10-13 08:58:09
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 33
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
The Evidence of the Film
(1913) Sister of Messenger Boy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1912) Jekyll's Sweetheart
The Voice of Conscience
(1912) The Orphan's Rival
The Portrait of Lady Anne
(1912) Lady Anne
Cinderella
(1911) Cinderella
The Man Without a Country
(1917) Barbara Norton
The Return of Draw Egan
(1916) Townswoman (uncredited)
Enoch Arden
(1911) Enoch's Teenage DaughterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter | |
| Barbara Norton | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1916 | N/A | |
| Townswoman (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Margery Carew | ||
| 1915 | Flo Drake | |
| 1914 | Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward | |
| Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward | ||
| Florence Gray Hargreave | ||
| 1913 | Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron | |
| Venus | ||
| Marie | ||
| Imogen | ||
| Sister of Messenger Boy | ||
| 1912 | Mary | |
| N/A | ||
| Matilda | ||
| Undine, the Water Nymph | ||
| The Orphan's Rival | ||
| Lady Anne | ||
| The Silver Pheasant | ||
| Dottie's Nurse | ||
| Sue | ||
| Myra | ||
| Jess's Sister, Bess | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | ||
| The Girl | ||
| The Telephone Operator | ||
| The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter | ||
| Barbara Drew | ||
| Jekyll's Sweetheart | ||
| 1911 | Cinderella | |
| Em'ly as a Woman | ||
| The Daughter Grown Up | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Son's Girlfriend | ||
| A Servant | ||
| N/A | ||
| Enoch's Teenage Daughter | ||
| The Rival's Girlfriend | ||
| 1909 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
