Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1899-08-18
Day of Death
1988-01-25
Place of Birth
Port Huron, Michigan, USA
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.
Filmography (68)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
The Scarlet Letter
1934
Success at Any Price
1934
Social Register
1934
The Power and the Glory
1933
Footlights and Fools
1929
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
Why Be Good?
1929
Synthetic Sin
1929
Lilac Time
1928
Oh Kay!
1928
Happiness Ahead
1928
Her Wild Oat
1927
