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Mary Gordon (* 16. Mai 1882 in Glasgow als Mary Gilmour; † 23. August 1963 in Pasadena, Kalifornien) war eine schottische Schauspielerin. Ihre wohl bekannteste Rolle ist die Haushälterin Mrs. Hudson in der Sherlock-Holmes -Filmreihe mit Basil Rathbone.
Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour; 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950.
Mary Gordon ist der Name folgender Personen: Mary Gordon (Schauspielerin) (1882–1963), schottische Schauspielerin; Mary Gordon (Schriftstellerin) (* 1949), amerikanische Autorin; Mary Gordon (Pädagogin), kanadische Pädagogin; Mary Gordon-Watson (* 1948), britische Reiterin
Mary Gordon (* 16. Mai 1882 in Glasgow als Mary Gilmour; † 23. August 1963 in Pasadena, Kalifornien) war eine schottische Schauspielerin. Ihre wohl bekannteste Rolle ist die Haushälterin Mrs. Hudson in der Sherlock-Holmes -Filmreihe mit Basil Rathbone. Daneben spielte sie auch in mehreren Filmen von Laurel und Hardy mit.
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Mary Gordon was born in Far Rockaway, New York, to Anna (Gagliano) Gordon, an Irish-Italian Catholic mother, and David Gordon, a Jewish father. Her father died in 1957 when she was young. She had identified with him and his love for writing and culture, and continued to learn his myths. When she was in her 40s, she began to learn about him, discove...
Gordon lived in New Paltz, New York, for a time during the 1980s with her second husband Arthur Cash, a professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was a Pulitzer Prizefinalist (2007) and was Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the time of his death in 2016. They have two adult children, Anna and David. Gord...
Novels
1. Final Payments (1978) ISBN 0-394-42793-9 2. The Company of Women (1981) ISBN 0-394-50508-5 3. Men and Angels (1985) ISBN 0-394-52403-9 4. The Other Side (1989) ISBN 0-670-82566-2 5. Spending (1998) ISBN 0-684-85204-7 6. Pearl (2005) ISBN 0-375-42315-X 7. The Love of My Youth (2011) ISBN 0-307-37742-3 8. There Your Heart Lies (2017) ISBN 0-307-90794-5 9. Payback (2020) ISBN 1-524-74922-2
Novellas and short story collections
1. The Rest of Life: Three Novellas (1994) ISBN 0-14-014907-4 2. Temporary Shelter (1987) ISBN 0-394-55520-1 3. The Stories of Mary Gordon (2006) ISBN 0-375-42316-8 (collects Temporary Shelterand 22 previously uncollected stories) 4. The Liar's Wife (2014) ISBN 978-0-307-37743-2
Non-fiction
1. Memoirs 1.1. The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search For Her Father (1996) ISBN 0-679-74931-4 1.2. Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity (2000) ISBN 0-684-86255-7 1.3. Circling My Mother: A Memoir (2007) ISBN 0-375-42456-3 2. Essays 2.1. Good Boys and Dead Girls, and Other Essays (1991) ISBN 0-670-82567-0 3. Religion 3.1. Reading Jesus (2009) ISBN 0-375-42457-1 4. Biography 4.1. Joan of Arc (2000) ISBN 0-670-88537-1 4.2. On Merton. Shambhala Publications. 2019. ISBN 978-...
In 1993, Gordon received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her other awards include a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers' Award, an O. Henry Award, and Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Stories of Mary Gordon won The Story Prize in 2007. In March 2008, Governor Eliot Spitzer named Mary Gordon the official New ...
Mary Gordon Interview, transcript from the New York State Writers Institute, an excellent unvarnished account on the Barnard website with links to recent work and reviewsLopate Show with The Story Prize finalists: Rick Bass, Mary Gordon, and George Saunders(2/27/07)Mary Gordon (1882-1963) was a Scottish actress who played housekeepers and mothers in many films, including the Sherlock Holmes series. She was born Mary Gilmour, worked as a dressmaker, and became friends with John Ford.
19. Apr. 2024 · Mary Gordon, American writer whose novels and short fiction deal with growing up as a Roman Catholic and with the nature of goodness and piety as expressed within that tradition. Her novels included Final Payments (1978), The Company of Women (1981), and There Your Heart Lies (2017).
