Colleen Moore
Known For
Acting
Born
1899-08-18 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Died
1988-01-25
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.
Most Known For
Painted People
as Ellie Byrne
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
Oh Kay!
as Lady Kay Rutfield
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Hollywood
as Self
His Nibs
as The Girl
Her Wild Oat
as Mary Brown
Broken Chains
as Mercy Boone
The Savage
as Lizette
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Little American
as Maid (uncredited)
Naughty But Nice
as Bernice Sumners
Lilac Time
as Jeannine
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
The Busher
as Mazie Palmer
Why Be Good?
as Pert Kelly
Footlights and Fools
as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
Come on Over
as Moyna Killiea
The Power and the Glory
as Sally Garner
So Big
as Selina Peake