Florence La Badie

from New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia

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.

Timeline

1917Aged 29

  • Her Life and His

    Mary Murdock

  • Poster for When Love Was Blind

    Eleanor Grayson

  • Poster for The Woman in White

    Ann Catherick

  • Poster for The Man Without a Country

    Barbara Norton

  • Poster for War and the Woman

    Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter

1916Aged 28

1915Aged 27

1914Aged 26

1913Aged 25

  • Poster for The Evidence of the Film

    Sister of Messenger Boy

  • Poster for Cymbeline

    Imogen

  • Poster for The Marble Heart

    Marie

  • Poster for Tannhäuser

    Venus

  • Poster for Little Brother

    The Sweetheart

  • The Head Waiter

    Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron

1912Aged 24

1911Aged 23

1910Aged 22

1909Aged 21

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