Florence La Badie

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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.