Vera Gordon — An Artiste Who Excels in Mother Parts (1921) 🇬🇧

A sympathetic expression of a mother role always makes a widespread appeal.

The most recent example of an actress who has made a wonderful success in a mother’s role was Vera Gordon in the Cosmopolitan production Humoresque. Her great success in this film — which, by the way, marked her screen debut — was due to the fact that she gave a characterisation which was so sympathetic and real that scores of critics sang her praises unanimously.

Other “Mother” Parts

Vera Gordon was born in Russia, and the favourite game of her childhood was “playing theatres,” and when she was only thirteen years of age she commenced her professional career. It is strange that her first part was as a mother; she was a big girl for her age, and she was cast for this part in a folk play. Later she toured many cities in Russia and then went to Canada. Her first English part was also as a mother in a vaudeville sketch entitled The Shattered Idol. Besides Humoresque, Vera Gordon played in a Goldwyn film called The North Wind’s Malice.

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Vera Gordon, a studio portrait.

Vera Gordon in a scene from the Goldwyn film, The North Wind’s Malice.

The sympathy and compassion of mother love.

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, January 1921