Helen Badgley
By the time she was just 3 years old she was appearing in her first film, Brother Bob's Baby in 1911. In 1912 she appeared in eleven films, and in 1913, that number increased to twenty two. At age six she lost her two front teeth and "retired" until new ones could appear. She never went back. She ended up with 103 credits to her name earning her the title "Thanhouser Kidlet" after the movie studio Thanhouser located in New York City which burned down. Her father was Gerald Badgely, expert mechanic and electrician at the studio where he perfected the Vista moving picture recorder.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4844 |
| Birthday | 1908-12-01 |
| Place of Birth | Saratoga Springs, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Thanhouser Kidlet, Helen Badgely, |
1914
The Barrier of Flames
8/1
Little Helen, Mayor Southwick's child, straying away from an automobile party, gets lost in the woods. She comes to the house where the her father's p...
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The Barrier of Flames
1914
The Dancer
7/1
The film's heroine is a dancer of world-wide reputation who, in the days of her struggle, has offended the story's villain.
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The Dancer
1912
My Baby's Voice
10/1
A neglected mother is tempted to stray, but she is saved by her baby's voice, whom she hears talking on the telephone.
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My Baby's Voice
1912
Dottie's New Doll
7/1
Dottie was very proud of her great big beautiful doll but sometimes they are in danger of getting broke. And that was what happened to "Beautiful Bess...
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Dottie's New Doll
1912
Cross Your Heart
10/1
A little boy, inmate of an orphan asylum, ran away. He fell in with an itinerant knife grinder. The boy had had no home life and when his companion su...
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Cross Your Heart
1912
The Repeater
8/1
The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a frame-...
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The Repeater
1915
The Three Roses
8/1
The Colonel, for many years, has lived in the past, reverencing the lost cause of the Confederacy and hating all Northerners. When his daughter, Rose,...
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The Three Roses
1913
The Girl of the Cabaret
10/1
A young girl, who had talent as a violinist, came to New York determined to win fame on the concert stage. She found the field overcrowded, but accept...
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The Girl of the Cabaret
1914
The Woman Pays
8/1
The Woman Pays is a 1914 silent film that follows the story of an "innocent society woman" who finds herself in a difficult predicament.
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The Woman Pays
1915
Mercy on a Crutch
0/0
Born in a prospector's camp, orphaned by a flood and taken care of by relatives to whom she was unwelcome, Mercy grew up dodging blows and curses with...
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Mercy on a Crutch
1917
A Modern Monte Cristo
6.333/3
This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas story tells of a man, living in the present day, who returns home incognito and wealthy after having been a sai...
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A Modern Monte Cristo
1913
Little Dorrit
10/1
A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.
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Little Dorrit
1913
The Spoiled Darling's Doll
5/1
Her parents said she was a darling. The long-suffering servants thought otherwise. From the time that she could first crawl and talk she had had her o...
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The Spoiled Darling's Doll
1914
Zudora
0/0
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to...
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Zudora
1917
The Fires of Youth
7/3
The Thanhouser Co. has reissued a number of its surviving films on video. FIRES OF YOUTH existed at around 52 minutes in its original release. A short...
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The Fires of Youth
1913
The Tiniest of Stars
7/2
Family drama of a brother and sister who take to the stage.
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The Tiniest of Stars
1913
Just a Shabby Doll
6.5/2
A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).
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Just a Shabby Doll
1914
A Dog's Love
6.4/5
A lonely little girl is befriended by Shep, a neighbor's collie. The girl meets an untimely death, leaving Shep behind.
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A Dog's Love
1913
When the Studio Burned
7.5/2
A recreation of the Thanhouser Studio fire of 13 January 1913, it includes the rescue of a small child from the flaming building.
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When the Studio Burned
1912
In a Garden
6/2
Over the years, an old gardener observes a romance develop between a young boy and girl. 20 years after they break up over a misunderstanding, the old...
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In a Garden
1917
When Love Was Blind
10/1
Blind Eleanor is cared for by her father's friend and eventual lover, Burton Lester, who arranges a sight-restoring operation. Upon recovering her sig...
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When Love Was Blind
1915
The Baby and the Boss
10/1
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The Baby and the Boss
1913
Their Great Big Beautiful Doll
9/1
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Their Great Big Beautiful Doll
1912
The County's Prize Baby
7/1
A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions. They separate with the wife keeping th...
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The County's Prize Baby
1912
The Forest Rose
0/0
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Fore...
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The Forest Rose
1916
The Stolen Triumph
9/1
Edwin Rowley is a talented but uncommercial playwright. Stephen Hunt is a successful theatrical manager. Rowley finishes a brilliant play and sends it...
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The Stolen Triumph
1917
A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
0/0
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
0/0
John Rapley, head of Associated Baking Companies, executes a commercial coup that raises the price of bread to 6 cents a loaf. The price increase has...
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The Six-Cent Loaf
1912
Baby Hands
10/1
A well to do young man imagined he was very much in love with a certain actress.
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Baby Hands
1914
Frou Frou
1/1
Comte Paul De Valreas is attracted to Frou Frou, the frivolous wife of Henri De Sartorys and the indifferent mother of their young son Georges. Paul p...
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Frou Frou
1917
Pots-and-Pans Peggy
0/0
With younger brothers and sisters to support, Peggy takes on the task-heavy job as maid for Mrs. Stuyvesant. Peggy also manages to help the woman's ch...
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Pots-and-Pans Peggy
1912
The Thunderbolt
9/1
A broker who was trying to get rich dishonestly, found himself in danger of arrest. Just as he was preparing for flight a neighbor entered. This man h...
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The Thunderbolt
1913
Jack and the Beanstalk
7/1
Produced by Thanhouser Film Corporation.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1914
Coals of Fire
10/1
The merchant had succeeded in business because he was utterly heartless and had ground down all opposition. His employees hated him, his competitors f...
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Coals of Fire
1915
The Mother of Her Dreams
0/0
The little girl has been at the orphan asylum as long as she could remember. Who her parents were she knew not, but the happiest moments of her pitifu...
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The Mother of Her Dreams
1917
The Candy Girl
0/0
Nell leaves the farm to start a candy store in New York, but has a troubled start until she meets Jack Monroe, a young spendthrift who helps her attra...
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The Candy Girl
1917
The Heart of Ezra Greer
0/0
The film follows Ezra Greer, a middle-aged man who has worked hard since his youth. He cares deeply for his motherless daughter, Mary, but was unable...
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