''The Galley Slave'' is a 1915 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
J. Gordon Edwards
James Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867 – December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage (theatre), stage actor and stage director.
Biography
James Gordon Edwards was born in Montreal ...
and starring
Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
. Based on the play of the same name by Bartley Campbell, the film's scenario was written by
Clara S. Beranger. ''The Galley Slave'' is now considered a
lost film.The AFI Catalog of feature films 1893-1993:''The Galley Slave''
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Cast
* Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
as Francesca Brabaut
* Stuart Holmes
Stuart Holmes (born Joseph Liebchen; March 10, 1884 – December 29, 1971) was an American actor and sculptor whose career spanned seven decades. He appeared in almost 450 films between 1909 and 1964, sometimes credited as Stewart Holmes.
Biog ...
as Antoine Brabaut
* Claire Whitney
Claire Whitney (May 6, 1890 – August 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actress who appeared in 111 films between 1912 and 1949. Only 21 of these films survive, as most have been lost.
Whitney gained early acting experience with a ...
as Cecil Blaine
* Lillian Lawrence
Lillian Lawrence (February 17, 1868 – May 7, 1926) was an American theatre and silent film actress. Her daughter Ethel Grey Terry was also an actress.
Biography
Lawrence was born in either Alexandria, Virginia or Alexander, West Virginia bu ...
as Mrs. Blaine
* Jane Lee as Dolores
* Hardee Kirkland
Hardee Kirkland (May 23, 1868 – February 18, 1929) was an American film actor and film director, director of the silent film, silent era who appeared on stage. Kirkland was born in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgi ...
as Baron La Bois
See also
*List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
*1937 Fox vault fire
The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ...
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1915 films
1915 drama films
1915 lost films
Fox Film films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Films directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Lost American films
Lost drama films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
English-language drama films
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