Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore ( born August 19, 1900 in Port Huron, Michigan, † January 25, 1988 in Paso Robles, California; actually Kathleen Morrison ) was an American actress. She created the role of the flapper type, and became one of the biggest stars of the silent film era.
Career
Colleen Moore was educated in a convent and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. As she carried herself in her autobiography Silent Star, she came in 1917 for the film by a favor to the director David Wark Griffith her uncle Walter Howey owed . Howey was editor for a Chicago newspaper, and became the model for the reporter in the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht. Contrary to many reports, but otherwise Colleen Moore played either in The Birth of a Nation still intolerance.
In the coming years, Moore played mainly in B- movies and westerns, no special impression to leave at the box office. In 1922 she was chosen as one of the first WAMPAS Baby Stars. Her breakthrough came almost overnight, as in 1923 for the film Flaming Youth was tweak their hair to a then-popular bob and so became a symbol of the flapper of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties. In the following years she was seen again and again as exuberant young woman who lives her life by her own rules and the traditional conventions rejects. Together with her first husband, John McCormick, she founded her own production company under the umbrella of the First National, the production boss was McCormick. At the height of her career, Moore earned $ 12,500 a week. She put her Fees to be wise and accumulated a large fortune. Your future husbands were also stockbroker who helped her to live a luxurious life. Moore was careful to not get too bogged down on the flapper image. Excursions changed in dramatic roles like in Edna Ferber's So Big in 1925 with romantic comedies and love stories such as Ella Cinders from the year 1926. Already in 1928 saw Moore the signs of the times and produced with Lilac Times a so-called hybrid sound film, the sound effects and individual dialogue lines contained. Your partner in the film, which was one of the most successful of the year, Gary Cooper was.
Your attempt to master the new medium of sound film, but was rather half-hearted. She turned in 1929 a number of musicals, including Footlights and Fools on the side of Fredric March, but the public taste had already decided against Moore and her role tray. Their attempts to 1933/34, to start a comeback, failed because of the lack of interest of the public.
Moore wrote in the aftermath many successful guides for women, How Women Can Make Money at the Stock Market and Colleen Moore 's Doll House about their famous collection of dolls and the legendary dolls house they had built.
Quotes
I did what the spark lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore and what the torch. (Eng.: I was the spark that inflamed the youth and Colleen Moore was the torch ) - F. Scott Fitzgerald