Colleen Moore
Acting
- Born:
- 1899-08-18
- Died:
- 1988-01-25
- Place of birth:
- Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Biography
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison, August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable and highly-paid stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut. A huge star in her day, approximately half of Moore's films are now considered lost, including her first talking picture from 1929. What was perhaps her most celebrated film during her lifetime, Flaming Youth (1923), is now mostly lost as well, with only one reel surviving. Moore took a brief hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as sound was being added to motion pictures. After the hiatus, her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. Moore then retired permanently from screen acting.
Known For
Filmography
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Hollywood
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Scarlet Letter
Success at Any Price
Social Register
The Power and the Glory
Footlights and Fools
Smiling Irish Eyes
Why Be Good?
Synthetic Sin
Lilac Time
Oh Kay!
Happiness Ahead
Her Wild Oat
Life in Hollywood No. 2
Naughty But Nice
Orchids and Ermine
Life in Hollywood
Twinkletoes
It Must Be Love
Ella Cinders
Irene
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
We Moderns
The Desert Flower
Sally
So Big
Flirting with Love
The Perfect Flapper
Painted People
Through the Dark
Flaming Youth
April Showers
The Huntress
Broken Hearts of Broadway
Slippy McGee
The Nth Commandment
Look Your Best
The Ninety and Nine
Broken Chains
Forsaking All Others
Affinities
The Wall Flower
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Come on Over
The Lotus Eater
His Nibs
The Sky Pilot
Dinty
So Long Letty
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)
The Devil's Claim
When Dawn Came
Her Bridal Night-Mare
The Cyclone
A Roman Scandal
Common Property
The Egg Crate Wallop
The Man in the Moonlight
The Wilderness Trail
The Busher
Little Orphant Annie
A Hoosier Romance
The Savage
The Little American
Hands Up!
An Old Fashioned Young Man
The Bad Boy
The Prince of Graustark