Gail Kane(1885-1966)

Abigail (Gail) Kane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1885. Another actress who had a brief fling with stardom, Gail made her film debut in 1913, when she was 28, in the film Arizona (1913). Between 1913 and 1918, Gail posted a whopping 20 movies. Films on her resume included Le spéculateur (1914), The Scarlet Oath (1916), As Man Made Her (1917), and The Daredevil (1918). Afterward her career slowed greatly. She appeared in no films between 1918 and 1920. In 1921, she returned as Gloria Travers in Idle Hands (1921). By the time she was 42, Gail had a hard time landing good roles, and finished her career in Convoy (1927) in 1927. She was 81 years old when she died of natural causes in Augusta, Maine on February 17, 1966 after appearing in 24 pictures.