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She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards and also made some television appearances. |
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On June 25, 1920 in Chicago during a Vaudeville performance with her then husband and fellow performer, Jack Wilson and her daughter Vera Beresford, the stage gun Kitty Gordon was firing discharged a live round and shot Joseph A. Hack, an offstage acrobat. <ref>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E1D6133EE13ABC4E51DFB066838B639EDE New York Times, 1920</ref> |
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After [[Harry Beresford]]'s death in 1944 she married [[Ralph Ranlet]]. |
After [[Harry Beresford]]'s death in 1944 she married [[Ralph Ranlet]]. |
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Revision as of 19:51, 8 November 2009
Kitty Gordon | |
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| Other names | Constance Minnie Blades |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Levenston (1903-1904) (his death) Harry Beresford (1904-1944) (his death) Ralph Ranlet |
Kitty Gordon (22 April 1878 - 26 May 1974) was an actress both on stage and in silent film.
Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy.[1]
She married theatre manager Michael Levenston in 1903 but he died less than four months later.
Kitty continued with her stage work appearing in the comic opera The Duchess of Dantzic in 1903 and the operetta Véronique in 1904. In October of that year she married Harry Beresford. They had one child, Vera, who became an actress.
In 1909 she moved to New York with her husband 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 October 19, 1911 she starred in the debut of composer Victor Herbert's new musical "The Enchantress" at the New York Theatre.[2]
She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards and also made some television appearances.
On June 25, 1920 in Chicago during a Vaudeville performance with her then husband and fellow performer, Jack Wilson and her daughter Vera Beresford, the stage gun Kitty Gordon was firing discharged a live round and shot Joseph A. Hack, an offstage acrobat. [3]
After Harry Beresford's death in 1944 she married Ralph Ranlet.
She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.
Selected Filmography
- As in a looking glass 1916
- Her hour 1917
- The Wasp 1918
- Tinsel 1918
- Adele 1919
Notes
- ^ "Don Gillan (www.stagebeauty.net)"
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E1D61131E233A25753C2A9669D946096D6CF New York Times, 1911
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E1D6133EE13ABC4E51DFB066838B639EDE New York Times, 1920