Kitty Gordon

Kitty Gordon

Infobox actor
name = Kitty Gordon


birthdate = 22 April, 1878
birthplace = Folkestone, Kent
deathdate = 26 May, 1974
deathplace = Brentwood, New York
othername = Constance Minnie Blades
occupation = Actor
spouse = 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. ["Don Gillan (www.stagebeauty.net)"]

She married theatre manager Michael Levenston in 1903 but he died less than four months later.

Kitty continued with her stage work appearing in Veronique 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.

She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards and also made some television appearances.

After Harry Beresford's death in 1944 she married Ralph Ranlet.

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

elected Filmography

* As in a looking glass 1916
* Her hour 1917
* The Wasp 1918
* Tinsel 1918
* Adele 1919

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