She worked on the PBS Emmy Award-winning series The Great American Dream Machine, where she filmed segments on Studs Terkel, Dalton Trumbo, and Jane Fonda.
[2] In 1979, Gordon released her autobiography I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, which follows her addiction to Valium and battle toward recovery.
[3] A film adaptation, directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Jill Clayburgh as Gordon, was released in 1982.
[4] After graduating from Barnard College in 1956, Gordon got a job as a secretary in the public relations department at NBC.
She produced documentaries on topics spanning from retirement fraud in the volunteer army to the rights of mental health patients to live in communities where they weren't welcome.