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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.
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Total trailers found: 37
29 November 1912
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out.
16 June 1917
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.
08 June 1915
John Rapley, head of Associated Baking Companies, executes a commercial coup that raises the price of bread to 6 cents a loaf.
20 November 1914
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance.
13 January 1913
Family drama of a a brother and sister who take to the stage.
04 June 1912
Dottie was very proud of her great big beautiful doll but sometimes they are in danger of getting broke.
29 March 1912
A neglected mother is tempted to stray, but she is saved by her baby's voice, whom she hears talking on the telephone.
24 October 1912
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 man is instrumental in bringing them back together again.
12 November 1912
A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions.
28 July 1913
A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.
13 July 1915
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 equal dexterity and indifferent success.
03 October 1914
A lonely little girl is befriended by Shep, a neighbor's collie. The girl meets an untimely death, leaving Shep behind.
10 March 1913
A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.
10 February 1914
The film's heroine is a dancer of world-wide reputation who, in the days of her struggle, has offended the story's villain.
22 November 1912
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 suggested that they steal some chickens, he did not object.
22 December 1912
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-up, made by the ring leader's heeler, William Russell.
27 January 1914
The Woman Pays is a 1914 silent film that follows the story of an "innocent society woman" who finds herself in a difficult predicament.
15 December 1914
Little Helen, Mayor Southwick's child, straying away from an automobile party, gets lost in the woods.
08 August 1913
A young girl, who had talent as a violinist, came to New York determined to win fame on the concert stage.
19 December 1913
Produced by Thanhouser Film Corporation.
03 April 1913
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 own way.
03 February 1913
A recreation of the Thanhouser Studio fire of 13 January 1913, it includes the rescue of a small child from the flaming building.
11 December 1916
Edwin Rowley is a talented but uncommercial playwright. Stephen Hunt is a successful theatrical manager.
16 May 1915
The Colonel, for many years, has lived in the past, reverencing the lost cause of the Confederacy and hating all Northerners.
16 January 1914
The merchant had succeeded in business because he was utterly heartless and had ground down all opposition.
15 April 1917
Blind Eleanor is cared for by her father's friend and eventual lover, Burton Lester, who arranges a sight-restoring operation.
10 September 1915
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 pitiful life were those when she lay asleep, and, "the mother of her dreams" visited her.
01 January 1914
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.
26 November 1912
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.
07 October 1917
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 to attend the annual commencement at her co-educational college.
04 February 1917
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 sailor for years and living on a desert island surrounded by water filled with pearl-oysters.
18 March 1917
With younger brothers and sisters to support, Peggy takes on the task-heavy job as maid for Mrs. Stuyvesant.
20 May 1917
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 attract business.
06 August 1912
A well to do young man imagined he was very much in love with a certain actress.
