Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Silent Star by Colleen Moore Colleen Moore (1900-1988) 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. Her silent films terribly non existent on DVD. Let’s go, film companies, Colleen deserves more recognition. 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 www.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. Colleen Moore with Gary Cooper in the silent WW One classic “Lilac Time” (1928, surviving) 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. Actress Colleen Moore in a typical flapper pose. 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. Colleen Moore, a lady of many interests, in her garden. 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) Prince of Graustark, The (1916) (uncredited) …. Maid. To learn more about Colleen Moore visit her profile on The Internet Movie Database. Colleen Moore. As per our current Database, Colleen Moore died on January 25, 1988. Physique. Height Weight Hair Colour Eye Colour Blood Type Tattoo(s) 160 cm (5' 3'') N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A. Biography. Biography Timeline. Moore was born Kathleen Morrison on August 19, 1899, (according to the bulk of the official records; the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography, Silent Star, was 1902) in Port Huron, Michigan, Moore was the eldest child of Charles R. and Agnes Kelly Morrison. The family remained in Port Huron during the early years of Moore's life, at first living with her grandmother Mary Kelly (often spelled Kelley) and then with at least one of Moore's aunts. By 1905, the family moved to Hillsdale, Michigan, where they remained for over two years. They relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, by 1908. They are listed at three different addresses during their stay in Atlanta (From the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library city directories): 301 Capitol Avenue −1908; 41 Linden Avenue – 1909; 240 N. Jackson Street – 1910. They then lived briefly — probably less than a year — in Warren, Pennsylvania, and by 1911, they had settled in Tampa, Florida. The Bad Boy was released on February 18, and featured Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, Josephine Crowell, and Mildred Harris (who would later become Charles Chaplin's first wife). Two months later, it was followed by An Old-Fashioned Young Man, again with Robert Harron. Moore’s third film was Hands Up! filmed in part in the vicinity of the Seven Oaks (a popular location for productions that required dramatic vistas). This was her first true western. The film’s scenario was written by Wilfred Lucas from a story by Al Jennings, the famous outlaw who had been freed from jail by presidential pardon by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. Monte Blue was in the cast and noticed Moore could not mount her horse, though horseback riding was required for the part (during casting for the part she neglected to mention she did not know how to ride). Blue gave her a quick lesson essentially consisting of how to mount the horse and how to hold on. This dollhouse was the eighth one Moore owned. The first dollhouse, she wrote in her autobiography Silent Star (1968), evolved from a cabinet that held her collection of miniature furniture. It was supposedly built from a cigar box. Kitty Lorgnette wrote in the Saturday, August 13, 1938 edition of The Evening News (Tampa) that the first dollhouse was purchased by Oraleze O'Brien (Mrs. Frank J. Knight) in 1916 when Moore (then Kathleen) left Tampa. Oraleze was too big for dollhouses, however, and she sold it again after her cat had kittens in it, and from there she lost track of it. The third house was possibly given to the daughter of Moore's good friend, author Adela Rogers St. Johns. The fourth survives and remains on display in the living room of a relative. Essanay Studios was within walking distance of the Northwestern L, which ran right past the Howey residence. (They occupied at least two residences between 1910 and 1916: 4161 Sheridan and 4942 Sheridan.) In interviews later in her silent film career, Moore claimed she had appeared in the background of several Essanay films, usually as a face in a crowd. One story has it she had gotten into the Essanay studios and waited in line to be an extra with Helen Ferguson: in an interview with Kevin Brownlow many years later, Ferguson told a story that substantially confirmed many details of the claim, though it is not certain if she was referring to Moore's stints as a background extra (if she really was one) or to her film test there prior to her departure for Hollywood in November 1917. Film producer D.W. Griffith was in debt to Howey, who had helped him to get both The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance through the Chicago censorship board. The contract to Griffith's Triangle-Fine Arts was conditional on passing a film test to ensure that her heterochromia (she had one brown eye, one blue eye) would not be a distraction in close-up shots. Her eyes passed the test, so she left for Hollywood with her grandmother and her mother as chaperones. Moore made her first credited film appearance in 1917 in The Bad Boy for Triangle Fine Arts, and for the next few years appeared in small, supporting roles gradually attracting the attention of the public. On May 3, 1917, the Chicago Daily Tribune said: "Colleen Moore contributes some remarkable bits of acting. She is very sweet as she goes trustingly to her bandit hero, and, O, so pitiful, when finally realizing the character of the man, she goes into a hysteria of terror, and, shrieking 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!' beats futilely on a bolted door, a panic-stricken little human animal, who had not known before that there was aught but kindness in the world." About the time her first six-month contract was extended an additional six months, she requested and received a five weeks release to do a film for Universal's Bluebird division, released under the name The Savage. This was her fourth film, and she was only needed for two weeks. Upon her return to the Fine Arts lot, she spent several weeks trying to get her to pay for the three weeks she had been available for work for Triangle (finally getting her pay in December of that year). Silent Star by Moore Colleen. Colleen Moore Talks about Her Hollywood; SILENT STAR. Moore, Colleen. Published by Doubleday, New York, 1968. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Light yellowing to DJ otherwise in very good condition. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 262 pages; Signed by Author. Colleen Moore [Kathleen Morrison], Hollywood movie star of the silent film era.] Typed Letter Signed ('Colleen Moore'), a circular giving news of her latest film, 'Naughty But Nice'. Colleen Moore [Kathleen Morrison] (1899-1988), Hollywood movie star of the silent film era. Published by No place or date. Hollywood? c, 1927. Manuscript / Paper Collectible. 1p, 12mo. A typed circular, with the genuine signature of 'Colleen Moore', written at the height of her popularity. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Begins: 'Dear Friend: | Thank you very much for your kind note and I am only too happy to send you one of my photographs. It pleases me very much to know that you enjoy my pictures and that you are watching my work on the screen.' She reports that she has 'just started work on "NAUGHTY BUT NICE"', and gives a brief synopsis of the film, which concerns the transformation of the heroine from 'unattractive heiress' to 'a favorite with the boys'. Like her 'last picture', Orchids and Ermine, the film 'has been designed for laughing purposes [ ] Donald Reed, a handsome young juvenile, is my new leading man.' The letter concludes: 'I would just love to sit down and write you a long, personal letter, but I know you understand that time does not permit. However I did certainly appreciate hearing from you, and I shall be very happy if you will write me from time to time.' Moore was one of the Hollywood stars whose career was destroyed by the talkies. She subsequently enjoyed a successful career as an investor, a partner in the investment firm Merrill Lynch. Silent Star. Moore, Colleen. Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1968. Used - Hardcover. Second Printing. VG/VG, book front/rear inside gutters stained. DJ front/rear panels rubbed, spine very slightly darkened, but overall a tight solid sound clean copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; Tall 8vo, yellow cloth spine over black boards, 262pp. Illustrated with b&w photos. This copy is SIGNED by Author fep. Silent Star by Colleen Moore. Author : Jeff Codori Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786449691 Size : 26.57 MB Format: PDF, Kindle Category : Performing Arts Languages : un Pages : 302 View: 4157 Get Book. Book Description: Colleen Moore. Colleen Moore. 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Author : Lucanus Publisher: ISBN: 9781672402460 Size : 35.50 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Category : Languages : un Pages : 122 View: 5112 Get Book. Silent Star by Moore Colleen, Signed. Colleen Moore Talks about Her Hollywood; SILENT STAR. Moore, Colleen. Published by Doubleday, New York, 1968. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Light yellowing to DJ otherwise in very good condition. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 262 pages; Signed by Author. Silent Star. Moore, Colleen. Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1968. Used - Hardcover. Second Printing. VG/VG, book front/rear inside gutters stained. DJ front/rear panels rubbed, spine very slightly darkened, but overall a tight solid sound clean copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; Tall 8vo, yellow cloth spine over black boards, 262pp. Illustrated with b&w photos. This copy is SIGNED by Author fep. Silent star. Colleen moore talks about her Hollywood. MOORE Colleen. Published by Emile-Paul, 1943. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover. In-8 de 162 pages cartonnage sous jaquette illustr�e de l'editeur. Photographies dans et hors-texte. Edition originale enrichie de la signature autographe de Colleen MOORE. Silent Star. Moore, Colleen. Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1968. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Stated first edition hardcover. Association copy inscribed to ffep by Moore to famed Hollywood reporter/biographer "Bob" Thomas. From Thomas' estate. Tight and square with trace shelfwear. "With compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc " stamped to fep. Laid in are some of Thomas' notes which caused mild offset to ffep. Also errata slip laid in. The DJ in mylar is slightly rubbed/toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.