Occupation Actor Role Film actress | Name Kitty Gordon Children Vera Beresford | |
Born 22 April 1878 ( 1878-04-22 ) Folkestone, Kent, U.K. Other names Constance Minnie Blades Movies The Purple Lily, National Red Cross Pageant Spouse Harry Beresford (m. 1904), Michael Levenson (m. 1903–1904), Jack Wilson People also search for Harry Beresford, Jack Wilson | ||
Kitty Gordon (22 April 1878 – 26 May 1974) was an English stage and silent film actress.
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Career
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 Veronique 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.
Personal life
Her first and never mentioned husband was Maxwell James with whom she had a child, Vera. After his death, she married theatre manager Michael Levenston on December 10, 1903. Michael died on March 29, 1904 less than four months later. In October 1904, Kitty married Captain Henry Beresford (Born 1876, Died 28 January 1924. See The Times 29 January 1924.) Kitty's child became Cynthia Vera Beresford, who became an actress. In 1932 Kitty married Ralph Ranlet.
She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.
