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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.
Filmography
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War and the Woman (1917)
The Man Without a Country (1917)
The Woman in White (1917)
Divorce and the Daughter (1916)
The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
The Pillory (1916)
The Fugitive (1916)
Crossed Wires (1915)
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy (1914)
The Cat's Paw (1914)
The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)
The Head Waiter (1913)
Tannhäuser (1913)
The Marble Heart (1913)
Cymbeline (1913)
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
Star of Bethlehem (1912)
Petticoat Camp (1912)
Lucile (1912)
Undine (1912)
The Voice of Conscience (1912)
The Portrait of Lady Anne (1912)
Under Two Flags (1912)
Dottie's New Doll (1912)
Whom God Hath Joined (1912)
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee (1912)
Jess (1912)
Jilted (1912)
The Saleslady (1912)
Rejuvenation (1912)
The Girl of the Grove (1912)
My Baby's Voice (1912)
Flying to Fortune (1912)
East Lynne (1912)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
Cinderella (1911)
David Copperfield (1911)
In The Chorus (1911)
The Buddhist Priestess (1911)
The Rose of Kentucky (1911)
The Indian Brothers (1911)
Bobby the Coward (1911)
Fighting Blood (1911)
The Primal Call (1911)
Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)
Enoch Arden (1911)
The Manicure Lady (1911)
Madame Rex (1911)
The Diamond Star (1911)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
Serious Sixteen (1910)
Taming a Husband (1910)
Through the Breakers (1909)
In the Window Recess (1909)
Getting Even (1909)
Comata, the Sioux (1909)
A Strange Meeting (1909)
The Politician's Love Story (1909)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1888-04-26
Deathday1917-10-13 (29 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsFlorence Russ
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