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Colleen Moore

Acting Born Aug 18, 1899 Port Huron, Michigan, USA 24 credits

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.

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Hollywood

as Self

Full filmography

  • The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973) as Self
  • Hollywood (1980) as Self
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
  • Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) as Herself (archive footage)
  • Broken Chains (1922) as Mercy Boone
  • Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Savage (1917) as Lizette
  • Oh Kay! (1928) as Lady Kay Rutfield
  • Lilac Time (1928) as Jeannine
  • Her Wild Oat (1927) as Mary Brown
  • The Power and the Glory (1933) as Sally Garner
  • Painted People (1924) as Ellie Byrne
  • The Sky Pilot (1921) as Gwen
  • So Big (1924) as Selina Peake
  • Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923) as Mary Ellis
  • Ella Cinders (1926) as Ella Cinders
  • His Nibs (1921) as The Girl
  • The Little American (1917) as Maid (uncredited)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1934) as Hester Prynne
  • Success at Any Price (1934) as Sarah Griswold
  • The Wall Flower (1922) as Idalene Nobbin
  • Orchids and Ermine (1927) as 'Pink' Watson
  • Irene (1926) as Irene O'Dare
  • It Must Be Love (1926) as Fernie Schmidt