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
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925)
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Full Filmography
Acting
The Prince of Graustark
(1916)
Maid (uncredited)
The Savage
(1917)
Lizette
An Old Fashioned Young Man
(1917)
Margaret
The Little American
(1917)
Maid (uncredited)
The Bad Boy
(1917)
Ruth
Hands Up!
(1917)
Marjorie Houston
A Hoosier Romance
(1918)
Patience Thompson
Little Orphant Annie
(1918)
Annie
The Man in the Moonlight
(1919)
Rosine Delorme
The Wilderness Trail
(1919)
Jeanne Fitzpatrick
The Busher
(1919)
Mazie Palmer
A Roman Scandal
(1919)
Mary
Common Property
(1919)
Tatyoe - "Tatyana"
The Egg Crate Wallop
(1919)
Kitty Haskell
Her Bridal Night-Mare
(1920)
Mary
Dinty
(1920)
Doreen O'Sullivan
When Dawn Came
(1920)
Mary Harrison
The Devil's Claim
(1920)
Indora
So Long Letty
(1920)
Grace Miller
The Cyclone
(1920)
Sylvia Sturgis
The Sky Pilot
(1921)
Gwen
His Nibs
(1921)
The Girl
The Lotus Eater
(1921)
Mavis
Broken Chains
(1922)
Mercy Boone
The Wall Flower
(1922)
Idalene Nobbin
Affinities
(1922)
Fanny Illington
Come on Over
(1922)
Moyna Killiea
Forsaking All Others
(1922)
Penelope Mason
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
(1922)
Self
The Ninety and Nine
(1922)
Ruth Blake
Flaming Youth
(1923)
Patricia Fentriss
Broken Hearts of Broadway
(1923)
Mary Ellis
The Nth Commandment
(1923)
Sarah Juke
Slippy McGee
(1923)
Mary Virginia
April Showers
(1923)
Maggie Muldoon
Look Your Best
(1923)
Perla Quaranta
The Huntress
(1923)
Bela
Through the Dark
(1924)
Mary McGinn
The Perfect Flapper
(1924)
Tommie Lou Pember
Painted People
(1924)
Ellie Byrne
So Big
(1924)
Selina Peake
Flirting with Love
(1924)
Gilda Lamont
We Moderns
(1925)
Mary Sundale
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925)
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Desert Flower
(1925)
Maggie Fortune
Sally
(1925)
Sally
Twinkletoes
(1926)
Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi
Irene
(1926)
Irene O'Dare
Ella Cinders
(1926)
Ella Cinders
It Must Be Love
(1926)
Fernie Schmidt
Her Wild Oat
(1927)
Mary Brown
Naughty But Nice
(1927)
Bernice Sumners
Orchids and Ermine
(1927)
'Pink' Watson
Life in Hollywood No. 2
(1927)
Herself
Happiness Ahead
(1928)
Mary Randall
Lilac Time
(1928)
Jeannine
Oh Kay!
(1928)
Lady Kay Rutfield
Footlights and Fools
(1929)
Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
Synthetic Sin
(1929)
Betty Fairfax
Why Be Good?
(1929)
Pert Kelly
Smiling Irish Eyes
(1929)
Kathleen O'Connor
The Power and the Glory
(1933)
Sally Garner
Success at Any Price
(1934)
Sarah Griswold
The Scarlet Letter
(1934)
Hester Prynne
Social Register
(1934)
Patsy Shaw
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
(2011)
Herself (archive footage)