Kitty Gordon Theatre & Film Actress Opera Singer Old Hand Signed Photo

NP148  Antique 5.5" x 3.5" hand signed photo for Miss Kitty Gordon famous Edwardian actress & opera star who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait bar lightly age faded in outstanding condition and the signing is undedicated too. Surely the most character autograph opportunity for Kitty Gordon of its kind.

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, the operetta VÔøΩronique in 1904 and The Three Kisses in 1907. In 1909 she moved to New York City, where she became a regular on the New York stage. On 19 October 1911, Gordon starred in the premiere of composer Victor Herbert's operetta The Enchantress at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Herbert wrote the title role specifically for her. She remained with the production when it transferred to the New York Theatre on Broadway later that month and toured in the piece for two years, until she fell ill. 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. She also made television appearances. Her final appearance on television was in 1952 on the program Life Begins at Eighty