Colleen Moore

Acting

Colleen Moore

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Aug 18, 1899 (125 years old)
Death date
Jan 25, 1988

Colleen Moore

Known For

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1h 50m
Movie 2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel...

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
1h 10m
Movie 2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was...

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.