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