WCW: Serena Gordon

Serena Gordon is one of those actresses who just pops out at me on screen. Having recently rewatched the great Aristocrats, I thought it was time to take a look at her frock flicks resume!

There’s only one production that I can’t find an image of her for, and trust me, I even looked through screencaps!

Gladys Olcott (uncredited) in Maurice (1987)

Otherwise, let’s count ’em down.

Prunella Rumsey in Queenie (1987)

Wait, there’s a cheesy 1980s made-for-TV biopic I missed? Watch this space! Oh, right. TV movie adaptation of a cheesy fictionalized book that’s sort-of about actress Merle Oberon, with a lot of embellishments. Gordon plays a bitchy former schoolmate who has it out for the main character, Queenie.

1987 Queenie — Dancing with Daddy, with nice hair.

Simone Angeketell in Hannay (1988-89)

A spin off from the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Hannay is “an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin… [The series] features his adventures in pre-World War I Britain,” per Wikipedia.

1988 Hannay — That’s a pretty lace layer on her bodice.

Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1989)

Gordon plays the ingenue in Charles Dickens’s novel set in French Revolutionary Paris and London.

1989 A Tale of Two Cities — I like her hair! Great tousled curls.

Gwen in Act of Will (1989)

A TV adaptation of a Barbara Cartland novel, about three generations of women from 1926 to the present.

1989 Act of Will — I guess she works in a hospital?

Jane Longbridge in Till We Meet Again (1989)

A TV adaptation of a Judith Kranz novel, about three women who “find romance and become swept up in war, danger and family intrigue” from 1913-52 (Wikipedia).

1989 Till We Meet Again — World War II, obviously.

Lady Eva Blackwell in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991-93)

A TV series that adapted numerous Sherlock Holmes stories.

Sherlock holmes & the Master Blackmailer (1993) starring Jeremy Brett — Alright, this is spot-on for late 1890s.

1991-93 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes — Perfect tailor-made silhouette.

Matron in Speak Like a Child (1998)

“Three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children’s home on the Northumbrian coast,” per IMDB. Looks 1950s-ish?

Lady Caroline in Aristocrats (1999)

Gordon played Caroline Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and wife to a key politician in mid-18th century England.

1999 Aristocrats — There were four Lennox sisters, and all wear really great costumes for the period.

Gwen Stepney in The House of Mirth (2000)

The sadly lackluster film adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, set in the early 1900s and about a well-born but cash-poor woman navigating New York society. Gordon’s part is small — she attends a dinner party in one scene.