Julia Swayne Gordon was an American actress. She appeared in 228 films between 1908 to 1933.

Born in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, she starred in the first film version of the Lady Godiva

Lady Godiva

Godiva , often referred to as Lady Godiva , was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants...

 legend in 1911. A veteran of numerous silent film appearances, she may be best remembered today as Richard Arlen

Richard Arlen

-Biography:Born Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore in St. Paul, Minnesota, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. His first job after the war was with St. Paul's Athletic Club...

's mother in Wings

Wings (film)

Wings is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. Wings was the first film, and the only silent film, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Wings stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and...

(1927) where she gives a tearful and emotional goodbye to Arlen as he leaves for combat flight training in France packing him off with his favorite childhood toy.

She died in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

.

Filmography

• Wings
  Wings (film)
  Wings is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. Wings was the first film, and the only silent film, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Wings stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and...
  
  (1927)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
• Gold Diggers of Broadway
  Gold Diggers of Broadway (film)
  Gold Diggers of Broadway is a 1929 Warner Bros. comedy/musical film which is historically important as the second two-strip Technicolor all-talking feature length movie . Gold Diggers of Broadway was also the third movie released by Warner Bros...
  
  (1929)
• The Silver Lining
  The Silver Lining (1921 film)
  The Silver Lining is a silent drama film directed by Roland West.-Cast:*Coit Albertson.....George Johnson*Jewel Carmen.....The Angel*Leslie Austin.....Robert Ellington*Virginia Valli.....Evelyn Schofield*Theodore Babcock.....Eugene Narcom...
  
  (1921)
• Children of Divorce
  Children of Divorce
  Children of Divorce is a silent film, directed by Frank Lloyd from an adaptation of Owen Johnson's novel, written by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton.-Plot:...
  
  (1927)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909 film)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1909 film directed by Charles Kent and starring Walter Ackerman and Charles Chapman. This is the first film version of the classic play by William Shakespeare.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (1909)
• Scaramouche
  Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche is a silent costume adventure based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham....
  
  (1923)
• The Smart Set
  The Smart Set (1928 film)
  The Smart Set is a silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Jack Holt, and Alice Day. Haines plays a self-centered polo player who has to redeem himself after he is kicked off the U.S...
  
  (1928)
• Her Right to Live
  Her Right to Live
  Her Right to Live is a 1917 dramatic silent film released by the Vitagraph Studios.-Plot:Polly Biggs is the eldest of a family of orphaned children who are taken in by their uncle, Mayor Hoadley . Hoadley despises the children and has only taken them in as good publicity for the upcoming election....
  
  (1917)
• Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
• What's Wrong With the Women?
  What's Wrong with the Women?
  What's Wrong with the Women? is a silent film Jazz Age drama, directed by Roy William Neill, produced by Daniel Carson Goodman, and starring Barbara Castleton and Constance Bennett....
  
  (1922)
• Bride of the Storm
  Bride of the Storm
  Bride of the Storm is a historical adventure made at Warner Brothers, directed by J. Stuart Blackton, and starring Tyrone Power, Sr. and Dolores Costello...
  
  (1926)

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