Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born April 26, 1888
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.
MovieWar and the Woman
1917
as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
MovieThe Man Without a Country
1917
as Barbara Norton
MovieThe Woman in White
1917
as Ann Catherick
MovieWhen Love Was Blind
1917
as Eleanor Grayson
Her Life and His
1917
as Mary Murdock
MovieDivorce and the Daughter
1916
as Alicia
MovieThe Return of Draw Egan
1916
as Townswoman (uncredited)
MovieThe Pillory
1916
as Ruth
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916
as Florence Stanton
MovieThe Fear of Poverty
1916
as Grace Lane
MovieThe Fugitive
1916
as Margery Carew
MovieMaster Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916
as Miss Gray
MovieMr. Meeson's Will
1915
as Augusta Smithers
MovieA Disciple of Nietzsche
1915
as One of the Unfit
MovieCrossed Wires
1915
as Flo Drake
The Country Girl
1915
as Phyllis, the Country Girl
The Six-Cent Loaf
1915
as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915
as Alice Reed - the Bride
God's Witness
1915
as Beryl Darcy
MovieThe Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914
as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
A Debut in the Secret Service
1914
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
MovieThe Cat's Paw
1914
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
MovieThe Million Dollar Mystery
1914
as Florence Gray Hargreave
The Head Waiter
1913
as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
MovieLittle Brother
1913
as The Sweetheart
MovieTannhäuser
1913
as Venus
MovieThe Marble Heart
1913
as Marie
MovieCymbeline
1913
as Imogen
MovieThe Evidence of the Film
1913
as Sister of Messenger Boy
MovieStar of Bethlehem
1912
as Mary
MoviePetticoat Camp
1912
MovieLucile
1912
as Matilda
The County's Prize Baby
1912
as Mary, The Baby's Mother
MovieUndine
1912
as Undine, the Water Nymph
The Voice of Conscience
1912
as The Orphan's Rival
MovieWhen a Count Counted
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
1912
as The Wife
MovieThe Portrait of Lady Anne
1912
as Lady Anne
MovieUnder Two Flags
1912
as The Silver Pheasant
MovieDottie's New Doll
1912
as Dottie's Nurse
MovieWhom God Hath Joined
1912
as Sue
MovieThe Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912
as Myra
MovieJess
1912
as Jess's Sister, Bess
MovieJilted
1912
MovieThe Saleslady
1912
as Her Sister
MovieRejuvenation
1912
as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
MovieThe Girl of the Grove
1912
as The Girl
MovieMy Baby's Voice
1912
as The Telephone Operator
MovieFlying to Fortune
1912
as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
The Silent Witness
1912
as The Young Wife
The Trouble Maker
1912
as The Wife
As It Was in the Beginning
1912
as The Society Girl's Friend
MovieEast Lynne
1912
as Barbara Drew
Her Ladyship's Page
1912
as Her Ladyship
MovieDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
MovieCinderella
1911
as Cinderella
Beneath the Veil
1911
as The Girl
The Tempest
1911
as Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
The Baseball Bug
1911
as The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
A Master of Millions
1911
as Rose (unconfirmed)
A Mother's Faith
1911
as The Loyal Daughter
The Last of the Mohicans
1911
as Cora Munro
MovieThe Trail of Books
1911
as The Wife
MovieDavid Copperfield
1911
as Em'ly as a Woman
MovieIn The Chorus
1911
as The Daughter Grown Up
MovieThe Buddhist Priestess
1911
MovieSwords and Hearts
1911
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
MovieThe Rose of Kentucky
1911
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
as Lady in Waiting
The Sorrowful Example
1911
as A Friend
The Smuggler
1911
as The Smuggler's Ward
MovieThe Indian Brothers
1911
MovieBobby the Coward
1911
as The Girl Next Door
The Thief and the Girl
1911
as The Girl
MovieFighting Blood
1911
as The Son's Girlfriend
Her Sacrifice
1911
as The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
MovieThe Primal Call
1911
as A Servant
MovieEnoch Arden: Part II
1911
as Teenage Arden Daughter
MovieEnoch Arden
1911
as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
Dave's Love Affair
1911
as May
MovieThe Manicure Lady
1911
as The Rival's Girlfriend
The New Dress
1911
as At Wedding
How She Triumphed
1911
as Florrie
A Knight of the Road
1911
as In Kitchen
MovieMadame Rex
1911
Paradise Lost
1911
as An Angel/A Maid
The Broken Cross
1911
as Kate
The Spanish Gypsy
1911
as Gypsy
The Diamond Star
1911
MovieThe Two Paths
1911
After the Ball
1910
as Mrs. Brown
The Troublesome Baby
1910
as Flo
MovieA Gold Necklace
1910
Serious Sixteen
1910
MovieTaming a Husband
1910
MovieThrough the Breakers
1909
In the Window Recess
1909
MovieGetting Even
1909
MovieComata, the Sioux
1909
MovieThe Seventh Day
1909
MovieA Strange Meeting
1909
MovieThe Salvation Army Lass
1909
MovieThe Politician's Love Story
1909
