Colleen Moore
Actor
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
Ella Cinders
as Ella Cinders 1926
The Little American
as Maid (uncredited) 1917
The Power and the Glory
as Sally Garner 1933
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne 1934
Why Be Good?
as Pert Kelly 1929
The Busher
as Mazie Palmer 1919
Success at Any Price
as Sarah Griswold 1934
The Sky Pilot
as Gwen 1921
Irene
as Irene O'Dare 1926
Dinty
as Doreen O'Sullivan 1920
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage) 2007
Lilac Time
as Jeannine 1928
Orchids and Ermine
as 'Pink' Watson 1927
Broken Hearts of Broadway
as Mary Ellis 1923
The Nth Commandment
as Sarah Juke 1923
Social Register
as Patsy Shaw 1934