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Florence La Badie
New York City, New York, USA
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 191…
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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.
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1917
War and the Woman
Movie Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
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1917
The Man Without a Country
Movie Barbara Norton
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1917
The Woman in White
Movie Ann Catherick
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1917
When Love Was Blind
Movie Eleanor Grayson
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1917
Her Life and His
Movie Mary Murdock
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1916
Divorce and the Daughter
Movie Alicia
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1916
The Return of Draw Egan
Movie Townswoman (uncredited)
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1916
The Pillory
Movie Ruth
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1916
Saint, Devil and Woman
Movie Florence Stanton
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1916
The Fear of Poverty
Movie Grace Lane
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1916
The Fugitive
Movie Margery Carew
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1916
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Movie Miss Gray
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1915
Mr. Meeson's Will
Movie Augusta Smithers
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1915
A Disciple of Nietzsche
Movie One of the Unfit
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1915
Crossed Wires
Movie Flo Drake
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1915
The Country Girl
Movie Phyllis, the Country Girl
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1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
Movie Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
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1915
A Freight Car Honeymoon
Movie Alice Reed - the Bride
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1915
God's Witness
Movie Beryl Darcy
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1914
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Movie Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
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1914
A Debut in the Secret Service
Movie Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
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1914
The Cat's Paw
Movie Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
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1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
Movie Florence Gray Hargreave
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1913
The Head Waiter
Movie Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
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1913
Little Brother
Movie The Sweetheart
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1913
Tannhäuser
Movie Venus
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1913
The Marble Heart
Movie Marie
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1913
Cymbeline
Movie Imogen
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1913
The Evidence of the Film
Movie Sister of Messenger Boy
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1912
Star of Bethlehem
Movie Mary
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1912
Petticoat Camp
Movie
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1912
Lucile
Movie Matilda
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1912
The County's Prize Baby
Movie Mary, The Baby's Mother
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1912
Undine
Movie Undine, the Water Nymph
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1912
The Voice of Conscience
Movie The Orphan's Rival
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1912
When a Count Counted
Movie
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1912
The Wrecked Taxi
Movie The Wife
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1912
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Movie Lady Anne
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1912
Under Two Flags
Movie The Silver Pheasant
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1912
Dottie's New Doll
Movie Dottie's Nurse
