HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SILENT MOVIE ACTRESS COLLEEN MOORE BORN 1900 AUGUST 19

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SILENT MOVIE 

ACTRESS COLLEEN MOORE 

BORN 1900 AUGUST 19

Colleen Moore (1900-1988)

Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore in 1920
Born	Kathleen Morrison August 19, 1900 Port Huron, Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 25, 1988 (aged 88) Paso Robles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Cancer
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1916–1934
Spouse(s)	John McCormick (m. 1923;div. 1930) Albert P. Scott (m. 1932;div. 1934) Homer P. Hargrave (m. 1937;d. 1964) Paul Maginot (m. 1983)

Cute as a button, silent screen star Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison, on August 19th, 1900 in Port Huran, Michigan, into a secure and happy middle class family. Her family moved South to Tampa, Florida when she was a child. She was convent educated and studied piano at the famed Detroit Conservatory. 

Her interests gravitated from music to theatrical performing and she was able to get a foot in the door as a film actress in Hollywood with the help of her uncle Walter Howey, who was the editor of the Chicago Tribune and instrumental in getting censor clearances for two of D.W. Griffith's masterpieces,





 "Birth of a Nation" (1915), and

 "Intolerance" (1916).

Colleen's first starring role was as Annie in a very quaint and Victorian film version of "Little Orphant Annie" in 1918. 

Other early, impressive roles for Colleen were "The Busher" (1919) with Charles Ray and nineteen year old John Gilbert, "The Sky Pilot" (1921) with John Bowers, and "The Lotus Eater" (1921) with John Barrymore. 





In the early 1920's Colleen cut her hair into a bob style which became popular overnight with millions of would-be flappers across America. During the next few years she would find fame playing these flapper type roles, performing especially well in various successful films such "Broken Hearts of Broadway" and "Flaming Youth" (both 1923), romantic comedies such as "Sally" (1925), "Irene" (1926), and "Ella Cinders" (1926), all opposite handsome Lloyd Hughes, "Twinkletoes" (1926), opposite Kenneth Harlan, "Orchids and Ermine" (1927), and "Lilac Time" (1928), opposite a young Gary Cooper.

By 1927 Colleen was the top box-office draw in the US, drawing a salary of $12,500 a week. She did not waste her money, as so many other stars did, but invested it in real estate and the stock market. When her film career ended in 1934 she was independently wealthy and traveled around the world pursuing various projects and interests. She wrote several books, including fiction titles for children and a book on investing entitled "How Women Can Make Money in the Stock Market".

She designed and built a famous, huge dollhouse filled with miniatures, which can be seen today at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. She also published a book on the dollhouse. Colleen was married four times, divorced twice, and had no children. Her final marriage lasted until her death from cancer on January 25th, 1988. ~ Copyright © 2004 goldensilents.com

Vintage Bio from "Who's Who On The Screen" (1920): "Colleen Moore was born in Port Huron, Michigan and attended the Convent of The Holy Name in Tampa, Florida, from which institution she emerged to start on her screen career which brought her in turn to Triangle, Fine Art, Ince, Selig, Paramount, Universal and other film companies. 

This little actress has done fine work in "Little Orphant Annie", "A Hoosier Romance", and with Charles Ray in "The Busher" and "The Egg-Crate Wallop." She also played in a number of Christie Comedies in which she displayed her ability as a comedienne. 


She is an all-round athlete and spends much of her spare time swimming in the surf near the studios at Los Angeles. She is five feet three inches high, weighs a hundred and ten pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes."

Vintage Bio from "Stars of the Photoplay"(1930): "At ten, Colleen Moore organized an impromptu neighborhood stock company, playing principal roles from heroine to villain. Later, at the Essanay studios, after waiting for six months, she was given a small part that lasted three days.



 It was "Flaming Youth" that placed Colleen among the foremost screen stars, and she remained there by virtue of her splendid characterizations. As Kathleen Morrison she was born in Port Huron, Michigan August 19th, 1902, and is five feet 3, weighs 110, has dark brown hair, one brown and one blue eye. Married John McCormick in 1923."



Colleen Moore Silent Films

Oh Kay! (1928) .... Lady Kay Rutfield 
Lilac Time (1928) .... Jeannine Berthelot
Happiness Ahead (1928) .... Mary Randall 
Her Wild Oat (1927) .... Mary Brown 
Naughty But Nice (1927) .... Bernice Sumners 
Orchids and Ermine (1927) .... 'Pink' Watson 
Twinkletoes (1926) .... Twinkletoes 
It Must Be Love (1926) .... Fernie Schmidt 

Ella Cinders (1926) .... Ella Cinders 
Irene (1926) .... Irene O'Dare 
Ben-Hur (1925) (uncredited) .... Crowd extra in chariot race 
... aka Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 
We Moderns (1925) .... Mary Sundale 
Desert Flower, The (1925) .... Maggie Fortune
Sally (1925) .... Sally 

So Big (1924) .... Selina Peake 
Flirting with Love (1924) .... Gilda Lamont 
Perfect Flapper, The (1924) .... Tommie Lou Pember 
Painted People (1924) .... Ellie Byrne 
Through the Dark (1924) .... Mary McGinn 
Flaming Youth (1923) .... Patricia Fentriss 
April Showers (1923) .... Maggie Muldoon 
Huntress, The (1923) .... Bela 
Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923) .... Mary Ellis 
Slippy McGee (1923) .... Mary Virginia 

Nth Commandment, The (1923) .... Sarah Juke 
... aka Higher Law, The (1923) (UK) 
Look Your Best (1923) .... Perla Quaranta 
Ninety and Nine, The (1922) .... Ruth Blake 
Broken Chains (1922) .... Mercy Boone 
Forsaking All Others (1922) .... Penelope Mason 
Affinities (1922) .... Fanny Illington
Wall Flower, The (1922) .... Idalene Nobbin 
Come On Over (1922) .... Moyna Killiea 
... aka Darlin' (1922) (UK) 
Lotus Eater, The (1921) .... Mavis 
His Nibs (1921) .... The Girl 
Sky Pilot, The (1921) .... Gwen 
Her Bridal Night-Mare (1920) .... Mary 
Dinty (1920) 

So Long Letty (1920) .... Grace Miller 
Devil's Claim, The (1920) .... Indora 
When Dawn Came (1920) .... Mary Harrison 
Cyclone, The (1920) .... Sylvia Sturgis 
Roman Scandal, A (1919) .... Mary 
Common Property (1919) .... Tatyoe 
Egg Crate Wallop, The (1919) .... Kitty Haskell 
Man in the Moonlight, The (1919) .... Rosine Delorme 
Wilderness Trail, The (1919) .... Jeanne Fitzpatrick 
Busher, The (1919) .... Mazie Palmer 
Little Orphant Annie (1918) .... Annie 
Hoosier Romance, A (1918) .... Patience Thompson 
Savage, The (1917) .... Lizette 
Little American, The (1917) (uncredited) 
Hands Up! (1917/I) .... Marjorie Houston 
Old Fashioned Young Man, An (1917) .... Margaret 
Bad Boy, The (1917) .... Ruth 
... aka Bad Boys (1917) (USA)