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

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Hollywood

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Lilac Time

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Orchids and Ermine

Sally

All Movies (68)

• Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films2011 · as Herself (archive footage)
• Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Scarlet Letter1934 · as Hester Prynne
• Success at Any Price1934 · as Sarah Griswold
• Social Register1934 · as Patsy Shaw
• The Power and the Glory1933 · as Sally Garner
• Footlights and Fools1929 · as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
• Smiling Irish Eyes1929 · as Kathleen O'Connor
• Why Be Good?1929 · as Pert Kelly
• Synthetic Sin1929 · as Betty Fairfax
• Lilac Time1928 · as Jeannine
• Oh Kay!1928 · as Lady Kay Rutfield
• Happiness Ahead1928 · as Mary Randall
• Her Wild Oat1927 · as Mary Brown
• Life in Hollywood No. 21927 · as Herself
• Naughty But Nice1927 · as Bernice Sumners
• Orchids and Ermine1927 · as 'Pink' Watson
• Twinkletoes1926 · as Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi
• It Must Be Love1926 · as Fernie Schmidt
• Ella Cinders1926 · as Ella Cinders
• Irene1926 · as Irene O'Dare
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ1925 · as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
• We Moderns1925 · as Mary Sundale
• The Desert Flower1925 · as Maggie Fortune
• Sally1925 · as Sally
• So Big1924 · as Selina Peake
• Flirting with Love1924 · as Gilda Lamont
• The Perfect Flapper1924 · as Tommie Lou Pember
• Painted People1924 · as Ellie Byrne
• Through the Dark1924 · as Mary McGinn
• Flaming Youth1923 · as Patricia Fentriss
• April Showers1923 · as Maggie Muldoon
• The Huntress1923 · as Bela
• Broken Hearts of Broadway1923 · as Mary Ellis
• Slippy McGee1923 · as Mary Virginia
• The Nth Commandment1923 · as Sarah Juke
• Look Your Best1923 · as Perla Quaranta
• The Ninety and Nine1922 · as Ruth Blake
• Broken Chains1922 · as Mercy Boone
• Forsaking All Others1922 · as Penelope Mason
• Affinities1922 · as Fanny Illington
• The Wall Flower1922 · as Idalene Nobbin
• The Wampas Baby Stars of 19221922 · as Self
• Come on Over1922 · as Moyna Killiea
• The Lotus Eater1921 · as Mavis
• His Nibs1921 · as The Girl
• The Sky Pilot1921 · as Gwen
• Dinty1920 · as Doreen O'Sullivan
• So Long Letty1920 · as Grace Miller
• Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)1920 · as self
• The Devil's Claim1920 · as Indora
• When Dawn Came1920 · as Mary Harrison
• Her Bridal Night-Mare1920 · as Mary
• The Cyclone1920 · as Sylvia Sturgis
• A Roman Scandal1919 · as Mary
• Common Property1919 · as Tatyoe - "Tatyana"
• The Egg Crate Wallop1919 · as Kitty Haskell
• The Man in the Moonlight1919 · as Rosine Delorme
• The Wilderness Trail1919 · as Jeanne Fitzpatrick
• The Busher1919 · as Mazie Palmer
• Little Orphant Annie1918 · as Annie
• A Hoosier Romance1918 · as Patience Thompson
• The Savage1917 · as Lizette
• The Little American1917 · as Maid (uncredited)
• Hands Up!1917 · as Marjorie Houston
• An Old Fashioned Young Man1917 · as Margaret
• The Bad Boy1917 · as Ruth
• The Prince of Graustark1916 · as Maid (uncredited)

All TV Shows (2)

• Hollywood1980 · as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self