MORE ON FLORENCE LABADIE, HER CROTON CONNECTION

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We were reminded of this early film actress, who had achieved quite a bit of fame in her time, when we stumbled upon this 1915 ad for the Mutual production of Mons. Lecoq.  Click on the photos and links.

(For those who don't know, Monsieur Lecoq was a fictional detective created by Émile Gaboriau, a 19th-century French writer and journalist.)

But back to the very beautiful Labadie.

On August 28, 1917, La Badie was driving near Ossining, New York, when she swerved on Sope Hill in Croton-on-Hudson to avoid a collision with several trucks at 6:30 PM and went down a steep embankment. She was taken to the hospital in Ossining and died from septicemia (blood poisoning) as a result of injuries from the accident....

All this is related in a detailed and extensive article in  the YORK, PA DAILY RECORD---MYSTERY WOMAN IN THE YORK BUILT COUPE---Florence La Badie was a famous silent firm star that received a customized York built Pullman Deluxe Coupe in 1916. 

La Badie’s publicity photo, via Pinterest, is from the height of her career in that same time frame.....

The article remains available at 

Mystery woman in the York, Pa.-built coupe

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1920, AND ABOUT SOPE HILL: SOPE HILL, THE HIGHWAYMAN AND TUMBLE INN

AND READ MORE ABOUT CROTON'S SILENT FILM HISTORY at EverythingCroton: AND NOW A LITTLE SILENT FILM HISTORY: THE CROTON CONNECTION, A 2021 UPDATE

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