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Florence La Badie
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On August 28, 1917, while driving near Ossining, New York in the company of her co-worker and fiance Daniel Carson Goodman, the brakes on Florence La Badie’s car failed and the vehicle plunged down a hill overturning at the bottom. While Daniel Goodman escaped with only a broken leg, Ms. La Badie was thrown from the vehicle and suffered serious injuries, with a compound fracture of the pelvis. Hospitalized, she clung to life for more than two weeks and seemed to be improving, when she suddenly died from what was described as an infection, more specifically septicemia.
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Nadat La Badie afstudeerde, kreeg ze werk als model in New York City. In 1908 kreeg ze hier een rol in een toneelstuk. Ze kreeg niet veel later een contract om twee jaar door de Verenigde Staten te touren. Onderweg ontmoette La Badie actrice Mary Pickford. Ze werden bevriend en in 1909 nodigde Pickford haar uit om te kijken bij het filmen van een nieuwe film bij Biograph Studios. Ze kreeg zelf ook een figurantenrol in een film en werd later uitgenodigd voor meer films.
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A good looking young woman, and having completed her studies, Florence La Badie was offered work as a fashion model in New York City. Once there, in early 1908 she obtained a small part in a stage play. Following this, she signed to tour with one of the road companies and for the next two years appeared on stage in various places in the eastern part of the United States. During this period she met a fellow Canadian, the young actress Mary Pickford, who in 1909 invited Florence to watch the making of a motion picture at the Biograph studio in Manhattan. Given an impromptu bit part, Florence was invited back to Biograph’s studios to participate in another film later that year. She would go on to make several films under the renowned D.W.
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Florence LaBadie's sweetly feminine presence enhanced many dozens of films made by the Thanhouser Studios, where she was one of the main stars. She was best known for the two serials she made for the company, the excellent Million Dollar Mystery (1914-1915) and the not-as-successful Zudora (1914). According to Thanhouser historian Q. David Bowers, LaBadie was born Florence Russ on April 27, 1888, and was adopted by the LaBadie family. After receiving a convent education in Montreal she modeled for illustrator Penrhyn Stanlaws, who later became a film director. Like many other girls back then (and now), she went from modeling to acting. From 1908 through 1910, she toured in a variety of stage productions.
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La Badie bleef films maken voor D.W. Griffith tot en met 1911. Ze werd vervolgens een actrice voor de Thanhouser Film Corporation. Ze werd al snel de grootste ster van de studio.
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In August of 1917, La Badie was at the height of her motion picture success. She had appeared in an astonishing 185 films since 1909, just 32 shy of Mary Pickford's 217 by that same time period. Her film The Woman in White had just been released in July, 1917. Her latest two films, The Man Without a Country, a film adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, and War and the Woman, would ... soon be released, both on September 9th, 1917. Although "Thanhouser Corporation" had been struggling since the 1914 automobile accident death of Charles J. Hite, La Badie's career was thriving and had been their saving grace. Less than a month earlier, she had announced that she was departing "Thanhouser", and she had several other film corporations willing to pick her up on contract immediately.
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