Colleen Moore
Born: 1899-08-18 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Died: 1988-01-25
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Hollywood as Self
1973
1934
- The Scarlet Letter as Hester Prynne
- Success at Any Price as Sarah Griswold
- Social Register as Patsy Shaw
1933
- The Power and the Glory as Sally Garner
1929
- Why Be Good? as Pert Kelly
- Footlights and Fools as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
- Synthetic Sin as Betty Fairfax
- Smiling Irish Eyes as Kathleen O'Connor
1928
- Oh Kay! as Lady Kay Rutfield
- Lilac Time as Jeannine
- Happiness Ahead as Mary Randall
1927
- Her Wild Oat as Mary Brown
- Orchids and Ermine as 'Pink' Watson
- Naughty But Nice as Bernice Sumners
- Life in Hollywood as Self
- Life in Hollywood No. 2 as Herself
1926
- It Must Be Love as Fernie Schmidt
- Ella Cinders as Ella Cinders
- Irene as Irene O'Dare
- Twinkletoes as Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
- The Desert Flower as Maggie Fortune
- Sally as Sally
- We Moderns as Mary Sundale
1924
- Painted People as Ellie Byrne
- Flirting with Love as Gilda Lamont
- Through the Dark as Mary McGinn
- So Big as Selina Peake
- The Perfect Flapper as Tommie Lou Pember
1923
- The Huntress as Bela
- Broken Hearts of Broadway as Mary Ellis
- Flaming Youth as Patricia Fentriss
- Slippy McGee as Mary Virginia
- April Showers as Maggie Muldoon
- Look Your Best as Perla Quaranta
- The Nth Commandment as Sarah Juke
1922
- Broken Chains as Mercy Boone
- The Wall Flower as Idalene Nobbin
- Come on Over as Moyna Killiea
- The Ninety and Nine as Ruth Blake
- Forsaking All Others as Penelope Mason
- Affinities as Fanny Illington
- The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 as Self
1921
- His Nibs as The Girl
- The Sky Pilot as Gwen
- The Lotus Eater as Mavis
1920
- Her Bridal Night-Mare as Mary
- Dinty as Doreen O'Sullivan
- The Cyclone as Sylvia Sturgis
- When Dawn Came as Mary Harrison
- The Devil's Claim as Indora
- So Long Letty as Grace Miller
- Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7) as self
1919
- The Busher as Mazie Palmer
- A Roman Scandal as Mary
- The Egg Crate Wallop as Kitty Haskell
- The Wilderness Trail as Jeanne Fitzpatrick
- The Man in the Moonlight as Rosine Delorme
- Common Property as Tatyoe - "Tatyana"
1918
- A Hoosier Romance as Patience Thompson
- Little Orphant Annie as Annie
1917
- The Savage as Lizette
- The Little American as Maid (uncredited)
- An Old Fashioned Young Man as Margaret
- The Bad Boy as Ruth
- Hands Up! as Marjorie Houston
1916
- The Prince of Graustark as Maid (uncredited)