Kitty Gordon
Born
22 April 1878 (147)
Place of Birth
Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Also known as
Constance Minnie Blades
Biography
From Wikipedia Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy. She appeared in The Duchess of Dantzic in 1903 and the operetta Véronique in 1904. In 1909, she moved to New York, where she became a regular on the New York stage. She made her first film appearance in 1916 in As in a Looking Glass. During the next three years she made twenty-one films. On 19 October 1911, she starred in the debut of composer Victor Herber...
From Wikipedia Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy. She appeared in The Duchess of Dantzic in 1903 and the operetta Véronique in 1904. In 1909, she moved to New York, where she became a regular on the New York stage. She made her first film appearance in 1916 in As in a Looking Glass. During the next three years she made twenty-one films. On 19 October 1911, she starred in the debut of composer Victor Herbert's musical The Enchantress at the New York Theatre. She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards. She also made television appearances. On 25 June 1920, during a Vaudeville performance in Chicago with her husband, Jack Wilson, and her daughter, Vera Beresford, Gordon's stage gun discharged a live round and shot Joseph A. Hack, an offstage acrobat. She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.
Filmography (16)
Playthings of Passion
1919
Mandarin's Gold
1919
Adele
1919
Tinsel
1918
Stolen Orders
1918
The Purple Lily
1918
The Wasp
1918
The Volunteer
1917
National Red Cross Pageant
1917
Her Hour
1917
Beloved Adventuress
1917
Forget-Me-Not
1917
Vera, the Medium
1917
The Crucial Test
1916
Her Maternal Right
1916
As in a Looking Glass
1916