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