Colleen Moore
Date of birth: 1899-08-18
Place of birth: Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Kathleen Morrison, Kathleen Kelly Morrison
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.
Movie Credits
The Scarlet Letter
1934-09-18
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her d
The Devil's Claim
1920-05-02
A Persian novelist living in New York throws aside the woman who loves him, and she gets an American
Lilac Time
1928-10-18
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit
The Power and the Glory
1933-10-06
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through
Ella Cinders
1926-06-06
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local bea
Orchids and Ermine
1927-03-06
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams
The Sky Pilot
1921-04-16
Arthur Moore, a missionary preacher, attempts to fit into the cowboy community so he can set up a ch
Success at Any Price
1934-03-16
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market cra
Social Register
1934-03-10
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love,
A Roman Scandal
1919-11-30
Mary and her steady, Jack, have differing opinions on "the stage"-- Mary wishes to devote her life t
Irene
1926-01-24
Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New Yo
The Busher
1919-05-17
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his cha
Why Be Good?
1929-02-28
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
Synthetic Sin
1929-01-06
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a
Come on Over
1922-03-11
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son
The Little American
1917-07-12
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i
Broken Hearts of Broadway
1923-07-01
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011-04-03
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192
So Big
1924-12-28
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak
Naughty But Nice
1927-06-25
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenic
Broken Chains
1922-12-10
Through the Dark
1924-01-06
During a rebellion of prisoners at the San Quentin State Prison, Boston Blackie makes a lightning es
Flaming Youth
1923-11-12
When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her
The Nth Commandment
1923-03-18
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another da
Her Bridal Night-Mare
1920-01-30
Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
Little Orphant Annie
1918-12-31
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her
Twinkletoes
1926-11-28
"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoo
The Ninety and Nine
1922-12-17
Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
Footlights and Fools
1929-11-08
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl
The Bad Boy
1917-02-18
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who i
Hands Up!
1917-04-28
Railroad president, John Houston, along with his daughter Marjorie and his fiancee, Elinor Craig, ar
An Old Fashioned Young Man
1917-04-14
Frank Trent, raised by his father with an old-fashioned reverence for women, goes to the city where
Her Wild Oat
1927-12-25
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon an
We Moderns
1925-11-15
Mary Sundale is a young woman who spurns her childhood sweetheart to attach herself to a large group
The Perfect Flapper
1924-05-25
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Painted People
1924-01-28
Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their
The Huntress
1923-08-20
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to
The Lotus Eater
1921-11-27
Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she
His Nibs
1921-10-21
Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
The Cyclone
1920-01-20
Sergeant Tim Ryerson of the North West Mounted Police is commissioned to round up a gang that smuggl
Dinty
1920-11-21
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other
When Dawn Came
1920-04-01
A doctor serving the slums questions his faith after transitioning to a position with more prestige
Oh Kay!
1928-08-26
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to se
So Long Letty
1920-10-17
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband
The Savage
1917-11-19
When Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a reck
The Man in the Moonlight
1919-07-28
Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007-05-23
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well
April Showers
1923-10-21
Danny O'Rourke is the son of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty. Eager to join the
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of
Sally
1925-03-29
Sally works at a cafe resort in Paris. After dancing at the cafe, Otis, an American theatrical agent
Flirting with Love
1924-08-17
When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamon
A Hoosier Romance
1918-08-18
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f
The Prince of Graustark
1916-11-06
Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of
The Wilderness Trail
1919-07-06
Set in the Northwoods of Canada, Tom Mix stars as Donald MacTavish, the newly appointed head commiss
The Egg Crate Wallop
1919-09-28
Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops s
The Wall Flower
1922-05-01
Idalene Nobbin attends a village dance but, due to the constant nagging of her mother, she believes
Common Property
1919-10-18
Russian Paval Pavlovitch is married to an American woman when a decree is handed down that nationali
Forsaking All Others
1922-12-10
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he i
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929-07-22
A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway f
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922-03-15
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association
Affinities
1922-09-24
Two sets of young marrieds, Day & Fanny Illington and Ferd & Ida Jackson take a weekend trip togethe
Look Your Best
1923-02-18
Perla Quaranta, a half-starved "daughter of Little Italy," is given the place in Carlo Bruni's "Butt
Slippy McGee
1923-06-11
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to ev
It Must Be Love
1926-08-22
Fernie Schmidt (Colleen Moore) lives with her parents in the rear of their delicatessen. The smells
Happiness Ahead
1928-06-24
Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring
The Desert Flower
1925-06-21
A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her n
Life in Hollywood No. 2
1927-08-25
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)
1920-08-24
An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes