Gail Kane
Also Known As: Abigail Kane, Gail Kane Ottman
Biography: Gail Kane (born Abigail Kane; July 10, 1885 – February 17, 1966) was an American stage and silent movie actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1885
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 17, 1966
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Souls in Pawn
Overview: Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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Whose Wife?
Overview: Mary marries Claude, a rich playboy, to please her invalid mother who becomes ill before they leave for a South American honeymoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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The Serpent's Tooth
Overview: Four lifelong friends share one very special summer. They develop an enduring bond despite their distinctly different emerging personalities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-28
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The White Sister
Overview: Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-05
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The Jungle
Overview: Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, gains a job in the Chicago stockyards. Once working at the stockyards he meets and marries Ona. But due to cut backs at the stockyards, loses his job, and they fall into financial hardship. Ona, in order to get money to feed their child, engages in sexual activity with her husband's foreman, Connor. Connor, rapes her. When Rudkus finds out about the affair, he throws Connor into a cattle pen where he is killed. While in prison Ona dies. When Rudkus gets out of prison he becomes an advocate for women via the Socialist Party. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-25
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Dan
Overview: Loyal slave of the aristocratic Dabney family, Dan is overjoyed when Raoul becomes engaged to Northerner Elsie Hammond and his sister Grace becomes engaged to Elsie's brother John. When the Civil War breaks out, the heartbroken Hammonds return North and John joins the Union army. Raoul joins the Confederacy, but his vindictive overseer, Jonas Watts, becomes a Union officer. Watts takes Grace prisoner, but before he can act on his desires, John rescues her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The Daredevil
Overview: When Roberta Carruthers' father, Capt. Carruthers, is killed in France during the war, she comes to live in the US with her uncle. When she finds out that her uncle is under the impression that his brother had a son and not a daughter, she decides to disguise herself as a male, and calls herself Bob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-13
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Paying the Price
Overview: While developing a powerful explosive, naval officer Paul Towne introduces his friend Richard Tracy to Judith Corbin, his friend since childhood. For years, Paul had assumed that he would marry Judith, but when Richard proposes, Judith, tired of waiting for Paul, accepts. Soon after the marriage, Richard becomes more interested in the new explosive than in his new wife, and to pay off gambling debts, he agrees to steal the formula and sell it to a foreign government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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The Scarlet Oath
Overview: Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant twin daughters Olga and Nina, en route to America in search of freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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Via Wireless
Overview: Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-16
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Arizona
Overview: An officer in the U.S. Cavalry sacrifices his reputation to save that of the unfaithful wife of his superior officer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-31
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The Men She Married
Overview: Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have the first husband reappear and cause her much worry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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On Dangerous Ground
Overview: Carlyle Blackwell stars as an American in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. A mysterious stranger bursts into his room and proclaims him her husband. What's a gentleman to do? He poses as her husband to deliver "papers" to French headquarters. Adventure follows.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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The Heart of a Hero
Overview: This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-06
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When Men Betray
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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Someone Must Pay
Overview: Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and finds Regina in Bryant's arms, he orders him to leave. Bryant obliges, but he doesn't go away -- when the Taylors' daughter, Vivian, has a birthday, Bryant gives her a Shetland pony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-28
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Her Great Match
Overview: While vacationing in America, Prince Adolph of Syravia meets Jo Sheldon and they fall in love. Wealthy Mr. Bote, a friend of Jo's family whose ambition is to become a baron, gives Jo's stepmother money to pay her creditors, in return for a forged note in Jo's name which promises that Jo will marry the prince and have him bestow the title on Bote.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-30
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The Pit
Overview: Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker Charles Cressler. At a performance of Faust, Curtis meets and falls in love with Laura Dearborn, the sweetheart of artist Sheldon Corthell. Curtis pursues Laura and finally convinces her to marry him, but soon after their wedding, he neglects her for his business. In her loneliness, Laura renews her relationship with Sheldon and the lovers plan to elope. When Curtis is ruined on the market, however, Laura rejects her lover and comforts her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-28
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The Labyrinth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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