
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.

Zudora
1914

Frou Frou
1914 · as Georges, Frou Frou's son

The Repeater
1912 · as The Reformer's Little Daughter

The Thunderbolt
1912 · as The Broker's Daughter, as a Little Girl

The Heart of Ezra Greer
1917 · as The Poor Little Girl

Pots-and-Pans Peggy
1917 · as Peggy's sister

When the Studio Burned
1913 · as Self

The Girl of the Cabaret
1913 · as Their Daughter

Their Great Big Beautiful Doll
1913 · as Daisy - The Widow's Little Girl

In a Garden
1912 · as Child visitor to garden

The Stolen Triumph
1916 · as Little Alice

Just a Shabby Doll
1913 · as The Daughter

A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
1917

A Modern Monte Cristo
1917 · as Virginia Deane, age 6

Mercy on a Crutch
1915 · as The Sheriff's Daughter

Baby Hands
1912 · as The Child

A Dog's Love
1914 · as Baby Helen

Little Dorrit
1913 · as Young Little Dorrit