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