Colleen Moore

Known For

Acting

Born

Aug 18, 1899

Died

Jan 25, 1988

Place of Birth

Port Huron, Michigan, USA

Credits

71 titles

Colleen Moore

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

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Herself (archive footage)

Movie
2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1980

Hollywood

Self

Tv
1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

Tv
1934

The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne

Movie
1934

Success at Any Price

Sarah Griswold

Movie
1934

Social Register

Patsy Shaw

Movie
1933

The Power and the Glory

Sally Garner

Movie
1929

Footlights and Fools

Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray

Movie
1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

Kathleen O'Connor

Movie
1929

Why Be Good?

Pert Kelly

Movie
1929

Synthetic Sin

Betty Fairfax

Movie
1928

Lilac Time

Jeannine

Movie
1928

Oh Kay!

Lady Kay Rutfield

Movie
1928

Happiness Ahead

Mary Randall

Movie
1927

Her Wild Oat

Mary Brown

Movie
1927

Life in Hollywood No. 2

Herself

Movie
1927

Naughty But Nice

Bernice Sumners

Movie
1927

Orchids and Ermine

'Pink' Watson

Movie
1927

Life in Hollywood

Self

Movie
1926

Twinkletoes

Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi

Movie
1926

It Must Be Love

Fernie Schmidt

Movie
1926

Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders

Movie
1926

Irene

Irene O'Dare

Movie
1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Movie
1925

We Moderns

Mary Sundale

Movie
1925

The Desert Flower

Maggie Fortune

Movie
1925

Sally

Sally

Movie
1924

So Big

Selina Peake

Movie
1924

Flirting with Love

Gilda Lamont

Movie
1924

The Perfect Flapper

Tommie Lou Pember

Movie
1924

Painted People

Ellie Byrne

Movie
1924

Through the Dark

Mary McGinn

Movie
1923

Flaming Youth

Patricia Fentriss

Movie
1923

April Showers

Maggie Muldoon

Movie
1923

The Huntress

Bela

Movie
1923

Broken Hearts of Broadway

Mary Ellis

Movie
1923

Slippy McGee

Mary Virginia

Movie
1923

The Nth Commandment

Sarah Juke

Movie
1923

Look Your Best

Perla Quaranta

Movie
1922

The Ninety and Nine

Ruth Blake

Movie
1922

Broken Chains

Mercy Boone

Movie
1922

Forsaking All Others

Penelope Mason

Movie
1922

Affinities

Fanny Illington

Movie
1922

The Wall Flower

Idalene Nobbin

Movie
1922

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

Self

Movie
1922

Come on Over

Moyna Killiea

Movie
1921

The Lotus Eater

Mavis

Movie
1921

His Nibs

The Girl

Movie
1921

The Sky Pilot

Gwen

Movie