Kitty Gordon
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 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
Playthings of Passion
1919
as Helen Rowland
Mandarin's Gold
1919
as Betty Cardon
Adele
1919
as Adele Bleneau
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Tinsel
1918
as Princess Sylvia Carzoni
Stolen Orders
1918
as Felicia Gaveston
The Purple Lily
1918
as Marie Burguet
The Wasp
1918
as Grace Culver
The Volunteer
1917
as Self - Cameo Appearance
National Red Cross Pageant
1917
as Bruges - Flemish episode
Her Hour
1917
as Rita Castle
Beloved Adventuress
1917
as Juliette La Monde
Forget-Me-Not
1917
as Stefanie Paoli
Vera, the Medium
1917
as Vera
The Crucial Test
1916
as Thanya
Her Maternal Right
1916
as Nina Seabury
As in a Looking Glass
1916
as Lila Despard