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