Cast & creator
Florence La Badie
Best known for Paradise Lost, Comata, the Sioux, In the Window Recess
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.
Also known as: Florence Russ, フローレンス・ラ・バディ
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104
1909–1917 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (104)
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Paradise Lost
An Angel/A Maid
1911
Comata, the Sioux
1909In the Window Recess
1909The Tempest
Miranda, Prospero's Daughter
1911The Blind Princess and the Poet
Lady in Waiting
1911Her Sacrifice
The Widow's Son's Sweetheart
1911Her Life and His
Mary Murdock
1917
Tannhäuser
Venus
1913
The Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Gray Hargreave
1914A Knight of the Road
In Kitchen
1911
The Return of Draw Egan
Townswoman (uncredited)
1916
The Salvation Army Lass
1909Dave's Love Affair
May
1911
Cymbeline
Imogen
1913
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's Sweetheart
1912The Last of the Mohicans
Cora Munro
1911
Taming a Husband
1910
The Politician's Love Story
1909
The Two Paths
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
Teenage Arden Daughter
1911Rejuvenation
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1912
Little Brother
The Sweetheart
1913The Spanish Gypsy
Gypsy
1911The Broken Cross
Kate
1911
Undine
Undine, the Water Nymph
1912
David Copperfield
Em'ly as a Woman
1911
Dottie's New Doll
Dottie's Nurse
1912The Thief and the Girl
The Girl
1911
Swords and Hearts
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1911The Troublesome Baby
Flo
1910
When a Count Counted
1912
The Trail of Books
The Wife
1911
A Disciple of Nietzsche
One of the Unfit
1915
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
The Cat's Paw
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Girl of the Grove
The Girl
1912
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
Miss Gray
1916
Whom God Hath Joined
Sue
1912
The Indian Brothers
1911
The Man Without a Country
Barbara Norton
1917
The Portrait of Lady Anne
Lady Anne
1912The New Dress
At Wedding
1911
Getting Even
1909
Divorce and the Daughter
Alicia
1916
When Love Was Blind
Eleanor Grayson
1917The Smuggler
The Smuggler's Ward
1911How She Triumphed
Florrie
1911A Debut in the Secret Service
Nan Tremaine - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Fear of Poverty
Grace Lane
1916The Sorrowful Example
A Friend
1911A Master of Millions
Rose (unconfirmed)
1911
My Baby's Voice
The Telephone Operator
1912As It Was in the Beginning
The Society Girl's Friend
1912The Diamond Star
1911After the Ball
Mrs. Brown
1910
The Seventh Day
1909
The Woman in White
Ann Catherick
1917
Through the Breakers
1909
War and the Woman
Ruth Norton--Braun's Stepdaughter
1917
Mr. Meeson's Will
Augusta Smithers
1915
The Marble Heart
Marie
1913
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Myra
1912
Fighting Blood
The Son's Girlfriend
1911
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
Nan - Lord Trevor's Ward
1914
The Evidence of the Film
Sister of Messenger Boy
1913
Star of Bethlehem
Mary
1912Saint, Devil and Woman
Florence Stanton
1916Her Ladyship's Page
Her Ladyship
1912
The Manicure Lady
The Rival's Girlfriend
1911The Six-Cent Loaf
Mary Quinn - Sewing-Machine Girl
1915
The Primal Call
A Servant
1911
Jess
Jess's Sister, Bess
1912
Lucile
Matilda
1912
A Strange Meeting
1909
In The Chorus
The Daughter Grown Up
1911A Mother's Faith
The Loyal Daughter
1911The Baseball Bug
The Would-Be Baseball Star's Wife
1911
Enoch Arden
Enoch's Teenage Daughter
1911The County's Prize Baby
Mary, The Baby's Mother
1912
The Fugitive
Margery Carew
1916
Under Two Flags
The Silver Pheasant
1912
East Lynne
Barbara Drew
1912
Cinderella
Cinderella
1911
Bobby the Coward
The Girl Next Door
1911The Price of Her Silence
1915The Voice of Conscience
The Orphan's Rival
1912
A Gold Necklace
1910A Freight Car Honeymoon
Alice Reed - the Bride
1915
Madame Rex
1911
The Pillory
Ruth
1916Beneath the Veil
The Girl
1911Serious Sixteen
1910The Country Girl
Phyllis, the Country Girl
1915The Silent Witness
The Young Wife
1912
Flying to Fortune
The Wealthy Old Man's Daughter
1912
Jilted
1912The Head Waiter
Mrs. Carl Hollywood, a Society Matron
1913
Petticoat Camp
1912God's Witness
Beryl Darcy
1915
Crossed Wires
Flo Drake
1915
The Saleslady
Her Sister
1912
The Buddhist Priestess
1911The Wrecked Taxi
The Wife
1912The Trouble Maker
The Wife
1912