Jane Gail

Jane Gail

Nascimento : 1890-08-16, Salem, New York, USA

Morte : 1963-01-30

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Gail, born Ethel S. Magee in Salem, New York, was an early American silent movie and stage actress. Gail is best remembered for her role in the silent film Traffic in Souls (1913), and the adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), where she gained worldwide fame as Dr. Jekyll's (King Baggot) imperiled fiancée. She also appeared in the 1912 version of Jekyll and Hyde, but as an extra. A veteran of 19 film appearances between 1912 and 1920, Gail first got her acting start on the Broadway stage, appearing in two productions, The Rack and The City. She was only 30 years old when she made her last film, Bitter Fruit (1920). She never appeared on the silver screen after that. Gail died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on January 30, 1963. She was 72 years old.

Perfil

Jane Gail

Filmes

Convoy
Mrs. Weyeth
A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent
20.000 Léguas Submarinas
A child of nature/Princess Daaker
Filme mudo que adapta a clássica história de Júlio Verne em sua primeira versão filmada. Interessante por ser a primeira vez que cenas filmadas em baixo da água foram exibidas no cinema. Capitão Nemo construiu um submarino fantástico para a sua missão de vingança. Ele viajou mais de 20,000 léguas em busca de Charles Denver - o homem que causou a morte da princesa Daaker.
England Expects
The cowardly son of a military family is cured by his wife's faith.
Traffic in Souls
Mary Barton
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
His Hour of Triumph
Countess Zuekelia - the Adventuress
Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick: the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest actor living. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home.
The Wanderer
The Wife
In the valley the world's best "eternal triangle" is being worked between a husband, a much younger wife and "one who covets." On the heights, the shepherd hears the call and for the nonce becomes a wanderer, and descends into the valley of Passions and Pain. It is the gentle, unfelt, almost unseen influence of the wanderer that stops a maddened husband from first murder and then suicide; exposes the frailty of a wife to her own consideration, and points out to her the grim consequences of a moment's folly, and finally takes the "one who covets" away from the born passions of the valley a far journey up the heights, and disaster to three souls.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Alice
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Twixt Love and Ambition
Dan's Mother
Silent one-reel melodrama
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Extra
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.