Maude Turner Gordon — She Has the Grand Manner (1928) 🇺🇸

Maude Turner Gordon was so determined to become an actress that she mortgaged her small fortune and worked for six weeks without salary, just to get some experience on the professional stage.

Acting was really an afterthought in her life, for she was married at one time to a prominent government official, a daughter being born to them who is now the wife of Commander R. A. White, of the battleship Pennsylvania. Mrs. Gordon’s husband died after a short wedded life, and the estate that he left was not sufficient to maintain his family.

She has appeared in perhaps a dozen pictures during the past year or so. In nearly every one she has portrayed a woman of wealth — a strong contrast in her own early struggles. In Love she is cast as the Countess Vronska, John Gilbert’s mother.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928