Colleen Moore
Actor
- Born
- August 18, 1899 · Port Huron, Michigan, USA
- Died
- January 25, 1988 (age 88)
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.
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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
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
December 25, 1925
Ella Cinders
June 6, 1926
The Little American
July 12, 1917
The Power and the Glory
October 6, 1933
The Scarlet Letter
September 18, 1934
Why Be Good?
February 28, 1929
The Busher
May 17, 1919
Success at Any Price
March 16, 1934
Irene
January 24, 1926
Lilac Time
October 18, 1928
The Sky Pilot
April 16, 1921
Dinty
November 21, 1920
Acting69
- 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
- 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 1934The Scarlet Letter as Hester Prynne
- 1934Success at Any Price as Sarah Griswold
- 1934Social Register as Patsy Shaw
- 1933The Power and the Glory as Sally Garner
- 1929Footlights and Fools as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
- 1929Smiling Irish Eyes as Kathleen O'Connor
- 1929Why Be Good? as Pert Kelly
- 1929