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.
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.
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.
Gwen in Act of Will (1989)
A TV adaptation of a Barbara Cartland novel, about three generations of women from 1926 to the present.
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).
Lady Eva Blackwell in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991-93)
A TV series that adapted numerous Sherlock Holmes stories.
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.
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.
Which is your favorite of Serena Gordon’s various frock flicks?
She is so passionated in “Aristocrats”. It’s my favorite.
Definitely “Aristocrats,” a fave of mine.