Florence La Badie
Acting
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.
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 Country Girl
Phyllis, the Country Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Alice Reed - the Bride
God's Witness
Beryl Darcy
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
The Head Waiter
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
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
The County's Prize Baby
Mary, The Baby's Mother
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
The Voice of Conscience
The Orphan's Rival
The Wrecked Taxi
The Wife
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
The Silent Witness
The Young Wife
The Trouble Maker
The Wife
As It Was in the Beginning
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
Her Ladyship's Page
Her Ladyship
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
Cinderella
Cinderella
Beneath the Veil
The Girl
The Tempest
Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
The Baseball Bug
The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
A Master of Millions
Rose (unconfirmed)
A Mother's Faith
The Loyal Daughter
The Last of the Mohicans
The Elder Sister
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 Blind Princess and the Poet
Lady in Waiting
The Sorrowful Example
The Smuggler
The Smuggler's Ward
The Indian Brothers
Bobby the Coward
The Girl Next Door
The Thief and the Girl
The Girl
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
Her Sacrifice
The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
The Primal Call
A Servant
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
Enoch Arden: Part II
Teenage Arden Daughter
Dave's Love Affair
May
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
The New Dress
At Wedding
How She Triumphed
A Knight of the Road
In Kitchen
Madame Rex
Paradise Lost
An Angel/A Maid
The Broken Cross
Kate
The Spanish Gypsy
Gypsy
The Diamond Star
The Two Paths
After the Ball
Mrs. Brown
The Troublesome Baby
A Gold Necklace
Serious Sixteen
Taming a Husband
Through the Breakers
In the Window Recess
Getting Even
Comata, the Sioux
The Seventh Day
A Strange Meeting
The Salvation Army Lass
The Politician's Love Story