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.
Acting
Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
1912
Movie
The Evidence of the Film
as Sister of Messenger Boy
1913
Movie
The Return of Draw Egan
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1916
Movie
Swords and Hearts
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1911
Movie
The Man Without a Country
as Barbara Norton
1917
Movie
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
Movie
Enoch Arden: Part II
as Teenage Arden Daughter
1911
Movie
Enoch Arden
as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
1911
Movie
Cinderella
as Cinderella
1911
Movie
Cymbeline
as Imogen
1913
Movie
The Portrait of Lady Anne
as Lady Anne
1912
Movie
Tannhäuser
as Venus
1913
Movie
Getting Even
1909
Movie
Comata, the Sioux
1909
Movie
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
Movie
Fighting Blood
as The Son's Girlfriend
1911
Movie
The Woman in White
as Ann Catherick
1917
Movie
A Strange Meeting
1909
Movie
Divorce and the Daughter
as Alicia
1916
Movie
The Politician's Love Story
1909
Movie
The Primal Call
as A Servant
1911
Movie
The Manicure Lady
as The Rival's Girlfriend
1911
Movie
The Marble Heart
as Marie
1913
Movie
Star of Bethlehem
as Mary
1912