Susan Gordon sings on these two music CDs:
Jeepers Creepers: Great Songs From Horror Films
The Original Soundtrack to The Five Pennies
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... has appeared in The Five Pennies with Danny Kaye, The Twilight Zone, My Three Sons, Attack of the Puppet People and many other films and TV shows!
As a young actress, Susan Gordon had featured roles in six motion pictures, guest-starred in nearly thirty popular television shows, and performed in a live performance of The Miracle on 34th Street which aired on NBC on Thanksgiving Friday in 1959. Her movie credits include: The Five Pennies, Attack of the Puppet People, The Man in the Net, Tormented, The Boy and the Pirates, and Picture Mommy Dead. Her more than two dozen television roles include a diverse group of television productions, including: The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Donna Reed Show, and My Three Sons. Click Here for a complete listing of Susan's TV Credits.
BREAKING NEWS! Bert I. Gordon's autobiography has been published! Click here for more information and to order a copy of The Amazing Colossal World of Mr. B.I.G..
The Five Pennies and The Boy and the Pirates have recently been released on DVD!
Please e-mail Susan to request details for purchasing autographed copies!
| Susan Gordon's Upcoming Public Appearances | ||
| April 9-11, 2010 | Monsterpalooza | Burbank, California (Marriott Burbank Convention Center) |
| June 25-27, 2010 | Monster Bash | Butler, Pennsylvania (Days Inn Conference Center) |
| July 11-13, 2010 | Super Megashow & Comic Fest | Fairfield, NJ (Crowne Plaza) |
| October 15-17, 2010 | Festival of Fantastic Films | Manchester, England (venue to be determined) |
Newsflash (December 16, 2009): Susan Gordon attended a performance of Danny and Sylvia, the off-Broadway musical about the life of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine, now playing at the St. Luke's Theater on 46th Street. After the show, Brian Childers, who does an amazing job portraying Danny Kaye, announced that he and Kimberly Faye Greenberg, his co-star, would be singing a duet of two songs from The Five Pennies. He sang "Lullaby in Ragtime," and she sang "Good Night, Sleep Tight." "Danny" then announced that those two songs were really part of a three-part medley in the movie, with "The Five Pennies" being the third part. He then invited Susan up onto the stage to sing with them and round off the medley.
Susan Gordon recently appeared at two film festivals with Bert I. Gordon: March 15 and 16, 2008 at the Ray Courts CHICAGO Show -- Chicago, Illinois, and June 20-22, 2008 at the Monster Bash 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.
On the music scene, Susan Gordon has been generating some buzz. A vintage singing performance from Miss Gordon's past was released on CD -- the soundtrack from the 1959 film classic The Five Pennies (the title song was nominated for the "Best Song" Oscar and the album was nominated for "Best Score, Musical" at the 1959 Academy Awards). Susan appears on two tracks from this stellar Oscar-nominated soundtrack -- singing along with Danny Kaye on "Music Goes Round and Round," and singing "The Five Pennies" in counterpoint to Danny Kaye and Jazz-legend Louis Armstrong on "Goodnight, Sleep Tight Medley." From her vocal performance alone, one can understand why legendary Hollywood Columnist Walter Winchell, after seeing her performance in The Five Pennies said of Susan Gordon that she is "the most talented child actress since Miss Temple." The recording was released to CD in March 2004.
Susan Gordon returned to the recording studio for the first time since childhood and contributed a spirited rendition of "You're a Dolly" on a CD compilation titled Jeepers Creepers: Great Songs From Horror Films (released in September 2003). This tuneful melody is from the 1958 film Attack of the Puppet People, the movie in which the then 8-year-old Susan Gordon made her big screen debut. Originally performed in the film by Marlene Willis, a now grown-up Susan Gordon has contributed a splendid new version to the CD, Jeepers Creepers: Great Songs From Horror Films.
A personal message from Susan Gordon (October 12, 2007):
I want to take a moment to remember my dear friend, Richard Valley, who recently lost his long battle against cancer. Those of you who are horror film enthusiasts might be familiar with Richard's fanzine, "Scarlet Street." The last issue to be published was in June of 2006 and featured interviews with my dad and me. Richard was also the producer of "Jeepers Creepers: Great Songs From Horror Films," the CD for which I had the pleasure of singing "You're A Living Doll" (from "Attack of the Puppet People") in 2003. But above all, Richard was a very dear friend. He enjoyed life and loved to laugh. He always had a smile for me and a good word. He is sorely missed. Richard Valley, may he rest in peace.
On the acting front, Susan returned to performing in 2002 appearing in the off-Broadway production A Magic Place In A New Time at The 45th Street Theatre in New York City. Also in 2002, she added her voice to a commentary track for a DVD of her father, Bert I. Gordon's, sci-fi classic The Beginning of the End. These projects are just the latest in a storied acting career in which as a young actress Miss Gordon appeared in film and television with the likes of Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Ronald Reagan, Rod Serling, Danny Thomas, Joan Fontaine, Angela Cartwright, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Don Ameche, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Alan Ladd, Tuesday Weld, Carolyn Jones, Richard Carlson, Joe Turkel, Charles Herbert, James Franciscus, Nancy Kulp, Ed Wynn, Fred McMurray, James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, James Whitmore, Ed Asner, J. Pat O'Malley, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Donna Reed, and many others noted actors and actresses of the big and small screen.
In addition to the many personal appearances she has made in recent years, Susan Gordon has also appeared in interviews in Fangoria Magazine (issue #218), the Horror-wood.com webzine, in the UK publication TV Zone in a series on child actors of the 1960's/1970's called The Children of Science Fiction, on the Jersey's Talking television interview show hosted by Lee Leonard, as well as in a book about Louis Armstrong, written by Scott Allen Nollen, titled Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career. She also contributed a tape recorded interview while at the 2002 Twilight Zone convention for the Twilight Zone archives. In January 2005, the latest issue of Twilight Zone trading cards was released featuring Susan's personally autographed card (shown at left).
In addition to her busy celebrity schedule, Susan Gordon is a successful businesswoman (the Chief Information Officer for an industrial products company), a Computer Graphics Designer (specializing in 3-D computer graphics and computer animations), and the proud mom of six wonderful children.
A personal message from Susan Gordon:
Special thanks to the folks at Media Imaging, Inc. for designing, maintaining, and updating this site for me, and for creating a documentary DVD of my career which I have been able to present at many film festivals. Also, special thanks to Barbara Badham for providing the extraordinary annual journals she created in the early 1960s as the President of the Susan Gordon Fan Club, and to Robert Armin for his contributions to this website.