Florence La Badie
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.973 |
Birthday | 1888-04-26 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Florence Russ, |
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
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The Portrait of Lady Anne
5.8/4
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1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
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This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollar...
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The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
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1916
The Fugitive
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1914
The Cat's Paw
0/0
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1913
Tannhäuser
4/3
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Getting Even
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1911
The Primal Call
4/2
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The Woman in White
5.5/2
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The Woman in White
1912
Flying to Fortune
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Rejuvenation
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Cymbeline
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The Girl of the Grove
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Saleslady
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1911
The Manicure Lady
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A Strange Meeting
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The Rose of Kentucky
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The Return of Draw Egan
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Petticoat Camp
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The Evidence of the Film
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Star of Bethlehem
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Star of Bethlehem
1911
Cinderella
6.4/7
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Cinderella
1913
The Marble Heart
5/1
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1915
Crossed Wires
5/1
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The Voice of Conscience
4/1
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Enoch Arden
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East Lynne
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Comata, the Sioux
5/3
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The Pillory
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Divorce and the Daughter
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Under Two Flags
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In The Chorus
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David Copperfield
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Through the Breakers
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Fighting Blood
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The Buddhist Priestess
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My Baby's Voice
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Jilted
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Jess
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
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Whom God Hath Joined
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Dottie's New Doll
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Lucile
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Undine
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The Head Waiter
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The Man Without a Country
4.8/9
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War and the Woman
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