Vera Pogorelsky (1886-1948) was a child actor in Russia before she and her parents emigrated to America with her husband and child in 1905.
Gordon performed in Yiddish theatre, and also worked in the UK for a while in around 1916.
She made her first film in 1920, but worked infrequently in Hollywood, preferring the theatre. Gordon’s best-remembered role is Mrs Cohen in The Cohens and the Kellys (1926) and the series of sequels that followed it. She was the archetypal Jewish mother and, fittingly, made her last appearance in Abie’s Irish Rose (1946).
Gordon only appeared in one MGM musical, a bit part in Madam Satan.
