Kitty Gordon

Kitty Gordon
Born 22 April 1878
Folkestone, Kent
Died 26 May 1974 (aged 96)
Brentwood, New York
Other names Constance Minnie Blades
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Michael Levenston (1903–1904) (his death)
Captain Henry Beresford (1904 – ?)
Ralph Ranlet (1932 – ?)

Kitty Gordon (22 April 1878 – 26 May 1974) was an English stage and silent film actress.

Career

Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

Personal life

In 1903, she married theatre manager Michael Levenston, who died less than four months later. In October 1904, she married Captain Henry Beresford (Born 1876, Died 28 January 1924. See The Times 29 January 1924.) They had one child, Cynthia Vera Beresford, who became an actress. In 1932 she married Ralph Ranlet.[4]

She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Don Gillan (www.stagebeauty.net)"
  2. ↑ Music that charms by Victor Herbert. New York Times, 20 October 1911
  3. ↑ Actor is shot by Kitty Gordon. New York Times, 26 June 1920
  4. ↑ Mrs. Beresford wed to Ralph Ranlet. New York Times, 16 September 1932

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