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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 26, 1888
Died
October 13, 1917
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Florence Russ
Florence La Badie
3.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
War and the Woman
1917
4.8
Barbara Norton
The Man Without a Country
1917
5.5
Ann Catherick
The Woman in White
1917
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Eleanor Grayson
When Love Was Blind
1917
1.0
Alicia
Divorce and the Daughter
1916
5.2
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Return of Draw Egan
1916
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Ruth
The Pillory
1916
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Grace Lane
The Fear of Poverty
1916
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Margery Carew
The Fugitive
1916
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Miss Gray
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1916
Credits
War and the Woman
as Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
1917
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The Man Without a Country
as Barbara Norton
1917
4.8
The Woman in White
as Ann Catherick
1917
5.5
When Love Was Blind
as Eleanor Grayson
1917
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Divorce and the Daughter
as Alicia
1916
1.0
The Return of Draw Egan
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1916
5.2
The Pillory
as Ruth
1916
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The Fear of Poverty
as Grace Lane
1916
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The Fugitive
as Margery Carew
1916
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Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
as Miss Gray
1916
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Mr. Meeson's Will
as Augusta Smithers
1915
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A Disciple of Nietzsche
as One of the Unfit
1915
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Crossed Wires
as Flo Drake
1915
5.0
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The Country Girl
as Phyllis, the Country Girl
1915
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The Six-Cent Loaf
as Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
1915
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A Freight Car Honeymoon
as Alice Reed - the Bride
1915
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God's Witness
as Beryl Darcy
1915
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The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
as Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
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A Debut in the Secret Service
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
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The Cat's Paw
as Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
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The Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Gray Hargreave
1914
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The Head Waiter
as Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
1913
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Tannhäuser
as Venus
1913
4.0
The Marble Heart
as Marie
1913
5.0
Cymbeline
as Imogen
1913
3.5
The Evidence of the Film
as Sister of Messenger Boy
1913
6.0
Star of Bethlehem
as Mary
1912
5.0
Petticoat Camp
1912
6.0
Lucile
as Matilda
1912
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The County's Prize Baby
as Mary, The Baby's Mother
1912
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Undine
as Undine, the Water Nymph
1912
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The Voice of Conscience
as The Orphan's Rival
1912
4.0
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The Wrecked Taxi
as The Wife
1912
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The Portrait of Lady Anne
as Lady Anne
1912
5.8
Under Two Flags
as The Silver Pheasant
1912
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Dottie's New Doll
as Dottie's Nurse
1912
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Whom God Hath Joined
as Sue
1912
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
as Myra
1912
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Jess
as Jess's Sister, Bess
1912
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Jilted
1912
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The Saleslady
as Her Sister
1912
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Rejuvenation
as The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1912
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The Girl of the Grove
as The Girl
1912
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My Baby's Voice
as The Telephone Operator
1912
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Flying to Fortune
as The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
1912
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The Silent Witness
as The Young Wife
1912
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East Lynne
as Barbara Drew
1912
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Jekyll's Sweetheart
1912
5.8
Cinderella
as Cinderella
1911
6.4
The Trail of Books
as The Wife
1911
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David Copperfield
as Em'ly as a Woman
1911
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In The Chorus
as The Daughter Grown Up
1911
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The Buddhist Priestess
1911
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The Rose of Kentucky
1911
5.7
Fighting Blood
as The Son's Girlfriend
1911
6.3
The Primal Call
as A Servant
1911
4.0
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
5.5
Enoch Arden
as Enoch's Teenage Daughter
1911
5.8
The Manicure Lady
as The Rival's Girlfriend
1911
5.0
Through the Breakers
1909
4.2
Getting Even
1909
3.8
Comata, the Sioux
1909
4.2
A Strange Meeting
1909
4.3
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
4.0
The Politician's Love Story
1909
4.3