[1] Gordon's most significant film, in terms of cinema history, is 1962's Tonight for Sure, as it marks the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola.
Gordon's acting roles were confined to appearing, mostly sans wardrobe, in a string of obscure sexploitation films produced for the adults-only grindhouse circuit.
In 1968, Olympic International (created by the writer-director team of Frost and Cresse) produced the "roughie" thriller The Animal.
Gordon has her most substantial and realistic role as a single mother terrorized and turned into an abused sex slave by a psychopath.
That same year she starred in another Frost/Cresse film, Hot Spur, a violent roughie western in which her character suffers similar abuse.