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.
103 movies
War and the Woman
1917·0.0
The Man Without a Country
1917·4.8
The Woman in White
1917·6.7
When Love Was Blind
1917·10.0
Her Life and His
1917·0.0
Divorce and the Daughter
1916·3.0
The Return of Draw Egan
1916·5.2
The Pillory
1916·0.0
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916·0.0
The Fear of Poverty
1916·9.0
The Fugitive
1916·10.0
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916·10.0
Mr. Meeson's Will
1915·0.0
A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915·8.0
Crossed Wires
1915·5.0
The Country Girl
1915·0.0
The Six-Cent Loaf
1915·0.0
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915·8.0
God's Witness
1915·0.0
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914·0.0
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914·9.0
The Cat's Paw
1914·8.0
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914·0.0
The Head Waiter
1913·9.0
Little Brother
1913·0.0
Tannhäuser
1913·5.0
The Marble Heart
1913·6.5
Cymbeline
1913·3.5
The Evidence of the Film
1913·6.0
Star of Bethlehem
1912·5.0
Petticoat Camp
1912·6.0
Lucile
1912·0.0
The County's Prize Baby
1912·7.0
Undine
1912·0.0
The Voice of Conscience
1912·4.0
When a Count Counted
1912·10.0
The Wrecked Taxi
1912·7.0
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912·6.6
Under Two Flags
1912·9.0
Dottie's New Doll
1912·7.0
Whom God Hath Joined
1912·10.0
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912·10.0
Jess
1912·7.0
Jilted
1912·10.0
The Saleslady
1912·9.0
Rejuvenation
1912·7.0
The Girl of the Grove
1912·7.0
My Baby's Voice
1912·10.0
Flying to Fortune
1912·10.0
The Silent Witness
1912·8.0
The Trouble Maker
1912·7.0
As It Was in the Beginning
1912·8.0
East Lynne
1912·10.0
Her Ladyship's Page
1912·7.0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912·5.9
Cinderella
1911·6.4
Beneath the Veil
1911·7.0
The Tempest
1911·8.0
The Baseball Bug
1911·10.0
A Master of Millions
1911·8.0
A Mother's Faith
1911·10.0
The Last of the Mohicans
1911·7.0
The Trail of Books
1911·0.0
David Copperfield
1911·8.0
In The Chorus
1911·9.0
The Buddhist Priestess
1911·10.0
Swords and Hearts
1911·4.6
The Rose of Kentucky
1911·5.6
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911·0.0
The Sorrowful Example
1911·0.0
The Smuggler
1911·7.0
The Indian Brothers
1911·4.0
Bobby the Coward
1911·0.0
The Thief and the Girl
1911·0.0
Fighting Blood
1911·6.3
Her Sacrifice
1911·0.0
The Primal Call
1911·4.0
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911·5.6
Enoch Arden
1911·6.0
Dave's Love Affair
1911·7.0
The Manicure Lady
1911·5.0
The New Dress
1911·0.0
How She Triumphed
1911·0.0
A Knight of the Road
1911·0.0
Madame Rex
1911·0.0
Paradise Lost
1911·0.0
The Broken Cross
1911·0.0
The Spanish Gypsy
1911·0.0
The Diamond Star
1911·0.0
The Two Paths
1911·0.0
After the Ball
1910·0.0
The Troublesome Baby
1910·10.0
A Gold Necklace
1910·5.5
Serious Sixteen
1910·0.0
Taming a Husband
1910·0.0
Through the Breakers
1909·4.2
In the Window Recess
1909·1.5
Getting Even
1909·3.8
Comata, the Sioux
1909·4.2
The Seventh Day
1909·3.0
A Strange Meeting
1909·4.3
The Salvation Army Lass
1909·4.4
The Politician's Love Story
1909·4.3