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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

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.

Movie Credits

The Scarlet Letter
2.5

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
0

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
3.1

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
3

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
3.5

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
2.5

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
2.5

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
2

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
2.3

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
3

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
2.2

Irene

1926-01-24

Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New Yo

The Busher
2.5

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?
3.3

Why Be Good?

1929-02-28

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Synthetic Sin
0

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
0

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
3.1

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
2.9

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
4.5

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

Naughty But Nice
0

Naughty But Nice

1927-06-25

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenic

So Big
0

So Big

1924-12-28

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak

Broken Chains
0

Broken Chains

1922-12-10

Through the Dark
0

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
1.8

Flaming Youth

1923-11-12

When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her

The Nth Commandment
2.5

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
2.5

Her Bridal Night-Mare

1920-01-30

Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.

Little Orphant Annie
2.6

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
3.4

Twinkletoes

1926-11-28

"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoo

The Ninety and Nine
0

The Ninety and Nine

1922-12-17

Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format

Footlights and Fools
0

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
0

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

An Old Fashioned Young Man
0

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

Hands Up!
0

Hands Up!

1917-04-28

Railroad president, John Houston, along with his daughter Marjorie and his fiancee, Elinor Craig, ar

Her Wild Oat
0

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
0

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
0

The Perfect Flapper

1924-05-25

A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.

Painted People
0

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
0

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
0

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
2.5

His Nibs

1921-10-21

Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.

The Cyclone
0

The Cyclone

1920-01-20

Sergeant Tim Ryerson of the North West Mounted Police is commissioned to round up a gang that smuggl

Dinty
2.6

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
0

When Dawn Came

1920-04-01

A doctor serving the slums questions his faith after transitioning to a position with more prestige

Oh Kay!
0

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
0

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
0

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
0

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
2.5

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
0

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
3.7

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
0

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
0

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
0

A Hoosier Romance

1918-08-18

Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f

The Wilderness Trail
0

The Wilderness Trail

1919-07-06

Set in the Northwoods of Canada, Tom Mix stars as Donald MacTavish, the newly appointed head commiss

The Prince of Graustark
0

The Prince of Graustark

1916-11-06

Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of

Smiling Irish Eyes
0

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 Wall Flower
0

The Wall Flower

1922-05-01

Idalene Nobbin attends a village dance but, due to the constant nagging of her mother, she believes

The Egg Crate Wallop
0

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

Common Property
0

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
0

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

Affinities
0

Affinities

1922-09-24

Two sets of young marrieds, Day & Fanny Illington and Ferd & Ida Jackson take a weekend trip togethe

It Must Be Love
0

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
0

Happiness Ahead

1928-06-24

Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
0

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

1922-03-15

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association

Slippy McGee
0

Slippy McGee

1923-06-11

The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to ev

Look Your Best
0

Look Your Best

1923-02-18

Perla Quaranta, a half-starved "daughter of Little Italy," is given the place in Carlo Bruni's "Butt

The Desert Flower
0

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
0

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)
0

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)

1920-08-24

An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes