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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.