I met Colleen Moore at Ulbrich's Book Store in Buffalo, New York. She was promoting her book, Silent Star. I bought a copy and she graciously signed it to me personally. I was with my mother who remembered seeing many of her films as a teenager in the late 1920s. We had a great conversation and I'll never forget it. I still have her signed book and I treasure it. This was in the very late 1960s or early 1970s.

@susanbaker2796

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. What a great memory!!!

I met Ms.Moore when I was just out of High School in the early 70's. She was a wonderful and kind lady. I used to deliver items to her home out side of Paso Robles CA. That she shared with King Vidor.

@jennifersmall4027

3 жыл бұрын

I interviewed her there for UPI in 1975! She was very kind and gracious.

@lindamaemullins5151

3 жыл бұрын

Cool ❤️

@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736

3 жыл бұрын

@@jennifersmall4027 you look so young!

@HerAeolianHarp

3 жыл бұрын

How wonderful!

@pharaoh5784

3 жыл бұрын

Boi stop lying she never lived with king Vidor as far as I know and she married the same year he died-

Imagine being born in the 1890's and then living through to the 1980's and beyond and seeing all the amazing changes through the years. Electricity,telephones,automobiles,airplanes,the stock market crash,WW1 and WW II,the wild fifties and pyschodelic sixties and the moon landing, the disco seventies and then the beginnings of high tech. Man,what a ride.

@brennocalderan2201

3 жыл бұрын

She saw the WTC being built, imagine the shock.

@ebayerr

3 жыл бұрын

@@brennocalderan2201 : Lots of people saw the WTC being built.And she passed away before they were brought down.So what's your point?

@brennocalderan2201

3 жыл бұрын

@@ebayerr I haven't seen the WTC opening myself, I would love to have seen it. She saw hip hop coming around too.

@MW-bi1pi

3 жыл бұрын

When I was just a young Doc, I had an old Patient that told me he remembered when the Wright Brothers first flew. He said he thought that was the most outlandish thing in the World and did not believe it at first...He said he closely followed the Apollo 11 Moon Landing when Neil and Buzz walked on the moon....No other age will see such technological development...

@gforceeatingcorrect

3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother lived from 1898to 2009

I think the loss of her films is what really pushed Colleen Moore to the background. She was the Queen of the Flappers.

Colleen has a really contemporary look, she would look just as good now!

She and her generation were so youthful they should have lived forever. And as someone else said, her beauty is timeless.

Her physical demeanor is SO adorable, and she comes across as being funny without even trying, I can't get enough of her! Her low profile life also make me love her more, I think it's the first time I get the impression that an old Hollywood star could've been a good friend

I remember seeing her dollhouse at the museum of science and industry when I was a young girl. It was magnificent, just like her!

I thought Louise Brooks was cute, but Collen Moore goes way beyond. What a super appealing woman she was in the 1920s. Thank you for this lovely spotlight on her. Maybe you could feature Annette Hanshaw in an upcoming spotlight?

Fascinating ! Beautiful talented lady Colleen lady ! Iconic flapper glamour girl with the big beautiful eyes and the cute bobbed haircut . Wearing a top hat 🎩 , hair band or a bowler , cigarette holder in hand , wearing flapper dress : very iconic 20s and the “Charleston” style dancing . I would say these are the lasting images I have of the 20s ! Great video of a great lady and a great era!

Some of these stars are "dated" to their era, Collen would be considered gorgeous even today, so glad you gave us all a glimpse of her

@jrnumex9286

3 жыл бұрын

nah, not here, using the word gorgeous as in appearance anyway.

@horatiodreamt

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and Louise Brooks, too.

@quietfarm3854

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrnumex9286 Yes, she is avg. at best. Big nose, short upper lip, diminutive jaw...

@brennocalderan2201

3 жыл бұрын

@@quietfarm3854 Cute would also be another word to describe her.

@Bloodreign1

2 жыл бұрын

@@quietfarm3854 No fake boobs, no lip enhancements, no botox, so she is a beauty of her era. No piercings all over her face, tattoos on her face, or whole upper torso, just pristine skin. You sound like one of those young picky dudes that find faults in every female you see.

This was great, very enjoyable. Colleen Moore was a doll and such a tragedy that so many films have been lost through the years.

@HerAeolianHarp

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Not only a great actress but a great person, gotta love the personal letters she sent back to some fans sending photos after fan photos requests from them sometime during the 30s, she called one "dear friend".

Her doll house a fixture at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry

@mblmbl1574

3 жыл бұрын

I loved looking at it as a kid!! Always bought the little book about the house when I was at the museum:)

@janeflanigan8431

3 жыл бұрын

I loved going there to see the doll house. I still love seeing it as an adult. 😂

I met her at a special screening of LILAC TIME (featuring her "discovery", Gary Cooper) back in the late '60s in Chicago. (She married a Chicago businessman named Hargrave.) And for the occasion, she even called an old-time theatre pianist out of retirement to play accompaniment to the film.

@lindamaemullins5151

3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this gem

@searchthewind99

Жыл бұрын

She didn't discover Gary Cooper. He had already made a name for himself two years prior in THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH.

I think Moore's Fairy Castle was often displayed to raise money for charities. Her autobiography is excellent, fun to read and informative.

@LaCroixCreative

3 жыл бұрын

It's at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry now. As a little girl, I was fascinated by it!

By miracle, I hope some of her lost films still survive out there awaiting to be rediscovered, keyword, miracle.

@emilymalden3310

3 жыл бұрын

I saw Pandora, it was pretty good.

@kikipaisley

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilymalden3310 If you mean Pandoras Box,that was Louise Brooks who looked very similar to Moore.

@ardiffley-zipkin9539

3 жыл бұрын

A number of silent films were discovered and parts of the films were saved. This was chronicled in a documentary, Dawson City in the Yukon that was shown on Turner Classic Movies. The films were buried in the Yukon as a way to dispose of them when talkies became popular. Some were dumped in the Ocean. This find was rescued and is now in Canada. It is a long but interesting story.

Saw her dollhouse in Chicago and had to buy the book. From this sprung my own love of miniatures, although I've not had the money to indulge it. What a beautiful creation, as was Colleen.

@carolynridlon3988

4 ай бұрын

I always checked out that book from our library as a kid and now I finally own a copy to read when ever I want!

I've always been intrigued by the Flapper era. Now it's 100 years ago.

Like many I had never heard of Colleen Moore. I’ve read many articles about the silent movie era and never came across her name. Having watched your excellent video you have stirred my interest in this stunning actress to the point of doing more research on her. Thank you for making me aware of this beautiful actress.

Very nice! Congratulations on this. I really enjoyed this video. I think it's one of the best biographies about Colleen on KZread. She is one of my favorite actresses of the silent film, I lover her movies a lot. I hope more people can see her movies and love her too.

@The1920sChannel

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! She's one of my favorites, too!

@steveweinstein3222

3 жыл бұрын

@@The1920sChannel You did a great job.

Thank you so much. She was such a sprightly delight and so much warmer than Louise Brooks.

@pbasswil

4 жыл бұрын

L. Brooke wasn't a light-hearted person, and she didn't generally play such parts. The only reason we compare her and C Moore is a) the similar timing of their successes, and b) the haircut they shared!

@HerAeolianHarp

3 жыл бұрын

@@pbasswil Colleen pioneered the cut.

@Mandanextdoor

3 жыл бұрын

@@pbasswil !!! Yessss

She WAS the #1 Flapper!!! Thank you for posting as she’s beyond deserving of this top spot in Hollywood history!!! The loss of her films, & Antonio Moreno’s, who was also a co-star of her’s in two films, “Look Your Best,” & “Synthetic Sin” is a never ending source of disappointment and indeed heartbreak to me! Hoping more of their films might eventually emerge as these two were top, top stars!!! Beyond tragic so much of their great work has been lost!!! ❤️

The Colleen Moore Doll House at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is (in my opinion) the best exhibit there. Put it on your bucket list. It has been recently refurbished, cleaned and polished and put back on display. It really is worth the wait in line to see it. For a number of years the Fairy Castle toured the nation and, I believe, the world, going on display to raise money for (as I recall) children's charities. I am curious to know where she lived in Michigan since I grew up there, myself -- graduated from high school in 1967. I was unaware of her books and now, I suppose I'll have to go looking. One of the things I liked about Colleen Moore's flapper persona is that she was softer, nicer, not so hard at the edges as some who followed. Seemed to be a Nice Person.

I wear a bob hairstyle as a personal tribute to the flappers!!!

@Automat1cJack

3 жыл бұрын

I wear a bottle opener pendant as a tribute to Cool Hand Luke!

@jillym320

2 ай бұрын

I love the flapper look and have sported a bob most of my adult life ❤. My favorite time in fashion…My grandmother was born just before the turn of the century and dressed like a flapper and had bobbed hair too.

Really interesting- I’d never heard of CM. But does anyone else notice when watching documentaries about this era, how people were given a chance to do things in a way we never are now? I find it incredible to hear how varied careers could be, with talented people moving between totally different types of work based on personality and aptitude. Here, this girl’s uncle know someone and she’s given a six month film contract.. etc. Whereas now, if it’s not in your exams or on your CV, no-one will look at you, whatever your abilities. What a frustratingly narrow view our modernday career world takes compared to then.

I saw Colleen Moore on some PBS or it may have been NET at the time, she caught my attention. This was the 1960's or '70's I knew I was seeing something classic. She was special. Thank you for doing this tribute.

@johnmason5574

3 жыл бұрын

For you little do-dads that don't know NET was the The National Broadcasting Network in the 1960's. Apparantly, you don't know. Look it up

Such a beauty. Thanks for this great bio!

Colleen has a beauty and style that outshines Clara Bow, the Gish girls, and even Louise Brooks. Her comic attitude is what gets me, she's a stunner and an absolute doll, but funny and vibrant too. Wow, what a girl.........

Very nice video. I own the home that her Ant and uncle lived in 1893 to 1901 in Port Huron MI. Oddly enough her uncle's name was David Moore and his wife’s name was Elizabeth Moore ( Morrison ). I have researched David Moore quite a bit and this is how I found Colleen Moore. Elizabeth Moore ( Morrison ) Lived until 1950 but David died in 1901.

What a delightful lady! Like a little bird she was. I'd seen 'Ella Cinders' as a child at the old time Silent Movie House in LA and tried my darndest to do that with my eyes, not knowing til years later that it was a trick photograpy thing. My son and I had the good fortune to visit her at her home in the 1980s where she bought some of my silver miniatures for her castle. What a treasure she was

Her Fairy Doll House is still in Chicago at the museum. If you grew up as a little girl in Chicago, then you know exactly who she was. My grandma also talked about her all the time, as they were the same age, and my grandma admitted she always wanted to be a flapper like Louise Brooks.

This was great! I have been a fan of 1920s pop music and jazz for decades, but I never heard of Colleen Moore! Thank you for fixing that for me! I'll remember her now, and I hope to catch her surviving movies.

She was definitely gorgeous!

I don't know why the 1920s is magic to me, it makes no sense, why? Thanks for your channel, I love it.

Her autobiography "Silent Star" is well worth reading.

Super talented, funny, gorgeous, and SMART. She invested wisely while so many other stars lost their fortunes. She was way ahead of her time. Loved her book, Silent Star!

Great video. Fascinating lady. Thank you.

As a child, I was beyond fascinated with Colleen Moores fairy castle dollhouse- I would study each room until I could recall every detail. Opening the book was like teleporting into the safety of a magical and secret world.

I remember The Colleen Moore Doll House! I had. a photo book with black and white pictures of the rooms. My parents had bought it when they attended an exhibition of the miniature palace. I was enthralled and it inspired me to study store display and interior design. I stilll remember the king and queens' bathrooms done in marble with gold fixtures.

I really like your reporting on the 1920’s. It sounds like you enjoy it as well. Thanks!

3:44 These photos could have been taken in 2021. She was a 100 years ahead of her time.

Louise Brooks had that bob haircut since she was a child. You'd be hard pressed to tell Moore from Brooks just from their photos with that hair style.

@brualiomaximo1

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen the documentary that shows pictures ofwhat you just wrote....as a child she wore that bob

@auletjohnast03638

3 жыл бұрын

Braduncleike, Louise Brooks is considered the most beautiful woman in the world ever-an American Venus. The guy who did the video is wrong it was Brooks who made the bob hair style famous, she wore it as a child.

@jeffreyk5734

3 жыл бұрын

@@auletjohnast03638 Firstly there were many different kinds of Bob haircuts in the 1920's. Not just one style. People today routinely refer to this style as being "Thee Bob", but it wasn't. A Bob was basically any short hair cut style, often curly. Secondly Louise Brooks was just a minor movie name until being rediscovered in the 60's She was never a Star in the Silent Era, She was a much hyped Starlet who never caught on with audiences. Colleen Moore conversely was the Biggest Star in the World in both 1926 and 1927. The top Box-office Draw. There is no comparison at the time. Brooks is better known today, but she really shouldn't be. And yes, Colleen made the "Dutch Bob" a sensation, not Brooks. Louise didn't even make her first film until late 1925 and it wasn't released until early 1926. By that time millions of woman were donning a similar look, including dozens of other actresses on screen. Louise wasn't the Star of The American Venus (1926) Esther Ralston was. I'll admit that Colleen was not the first to wear the Dutch Bob on screen. That was actually Mary Thurman as early as 1920. But it didn't have the far reaching impact that Collen's portrayal of Patricia Fentris in Flaming Youth (1923) had. Constance Talmadge has also be credited in the past for first introducing the "Dutch Bob" to American Audiences in the 1922 film EAST IS WEST. Which is also incorrect.

Thank you for remembering a local gal who made such an impression on films and the Flapper movie craze. Sadly many of her films were lost. But there are still a few left. Plus several photos and stories. And Colleen will forever be the Flapper Girl with the Bob Haircut. Fashionable as only she could be

She is one of the most ADORABLE stars to ever grace the silver screen. She was an absolute DOLL!!!

Absolutely had no idea. Thanks so much for bringing her forth to my attention and much great interest, will certainly be doing some research. This was fantastic

This is good. I love film history. It's hard to imagine now but according to the literature I read - and I think it's true - she was a truly phenomenal success that few, if any, have duplicated. Dragged in the audiences and raked in millions and she was generally well-received. Thanks for posting this!

I loved this. She's so cute and I agree that she should be better known. I only knew her from F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark about "Flaming Youth". How sad that her films were destroyed by improper storage. Thank you for making the video.

Thanks for sharing this and putting this wonderful lady's art into the context of its time.

Great documentary! Told us who she was quickly, gave synopsis, progression, and even her later years. Nice job!

Your videos are always interesting and well done. Thanks for sharing.

She’s so beautiful!

Well done! She's extensively interviewed in the multi-part history of RKO.

I watched a History of Hollywood from its beginnings to talkies-- Colleen Moore was interviewed for it-- I thought she was adorable-- the sort of person you'd love to sit with and talk for hours!

A beautiful woman. And very interesting as a person as well.

Really enjoyed and loved this video. It was enjoyment for the eyes to see the fashions and period pictures of Coleen Moore.

Thank you..Great history piece about Ms. Moore. Glad to have learned about her artistic history. Laura from NH

Oh wow I just realized I've seen her fairy castle at the MSI in Chicago! Cool, now I have some history I can connect it to. Thanks!

I loved her hobby of creating miniature houses, her Fairy Castle stands as testament to her creativity...

THANK YOU for this program about Colleen! I heard her in a super interview about those heady days, and I have a piano piece called Lilac Time from one of her movies. Wrongly forgotten!!

Gorgeous photos. Yes, indeed , Moore is the ideal flapper. I was thrilled to meet her today for the first time. Hope to find some of her films, though the screw-up by MOMA will make it hard, I suppose. That museum prides itself as preserver of film . Did they sabotage all the nitrite gilm

Thank you for the great post on Colleen Moore! I became a fan of hers, through the Hollywood series. She would've (probably) been cool to meet/hang with.

@The1920sChannel

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

I love this video. I never knew who she was.

Great presentation, thank you!

She looks like Louise Brooks

@EVILVIKTOR

3 жыл бұрын

She wishes

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Just the hair

Thank you very much for this indepth insight on her career. I honestly had never heard of her here in Germany. Too bad her films were mostly lost due to poor storage. Are there any full features left that could be seen today? If so, I would love to know their titles.

@jjpatrow

2 жыл бұрын

Guten Tag. “Why Be Good” (1929) was recently rediscovered and restored with its original VitaPhone soundtrack. It toured US art house theaters a few years ago; and, of the ten or so surviving Moore films that I’ve seen, it’s my favorite. “Lilac Time” (1928), a World War I film, is good and recently restored too.

She was adorable.

She's beautiful! And cheeky looking

Again, great story, tks !

My great grandma was a flapper in Chicago and worked as a model and dancer in a speakeasy. She also lied about her age claiming to be born in 1900 when really she was born in 1897. When the depression hit she moved from Chicago to Niles and then after her divorce moved to a small home in Palatine Illinois where she lived a simple life. She rarely ever talked about her glamorous life to the rest of her family. I wonder if she ever did silent films 🤔

I loved her movie posters.. rare now they were popular in late seventies when I helped relative with antique shop.🎥

Awesome channel and giving life to the 1920s. Colleen’s Fairy Castle is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. It is breathtaking and was my first memory of this 1920s star was seeing the doll house in the 1970s. It would be a few more years before I read more about her and saw her movies. Really a shame her movies were not properly stored. For goodness sakes she gave them to professionals and they still mistreated them. Unfortunately the loss of priceless irreplaceable films is all too common. Same thing happened with early TV shows and specials . I remember reading a story of a special filmed in color with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor from the 1950s, a few years after they did Singing in the Rain. The color copies were presumed lost and then a perfect copy was found in a barn in the Midwest of all places. Numerous stories like this, unfortunately, the items are usually just lost forever. Hollywood sometimes does a terrible job of preserving their history on many levels. Don’t get me started on the Universal fire that destroyed decades of music and speeches. 🤦‍♀️ Another case of poorly storing and cataloging the assets. They still don’t know everything that was lost.

Thank you loved this

Very, very interesting! Thank you.

In the last year or two I've come to really appreciate the movies of 1920's & earlier, the culture and lifestyle seem fascinating and a million miles away. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of fantastic films out there from the modern era, but the beauty in the wildness of the 20s is enchanting

@lindamaemullins5151

3 жыл бұрын

Yep and I love that Art Deco style don’t you?❤️

you make such interesting content, thanks!

She was something special. Any time her movies come on I stay up to watch! Those eyes!

I enjoyed for sure!!!! Excellent 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️💖💖

Colleen Moore was so cute, a girl-next-door kind of beauty. No wonder she was popular.

I read her book many years.ago. I was saddened to learn that most of her films were destroyed.

One of my characters is based on her, both physically and in terms of dancing. I love this little piece of the past

I've read a lot of misconceptions here about who popularized the bob hairstyle. It was actually Mary Thurman in the early 20s. And Louise Brooks wore what was referred to as a Dutch bob, which is slightly shorter and has straight bangs with razoring in the back to show off more neck. But of all of them, Brooksie made it look the most beautiful.

While not a great film star, Louise Brooks was by far the most beautiful of all the 1920's icons, bar none! Louise did not get that many chances to make films except for her time in Germany, but none can compare with her acting using her eyes. Louise had the most expressive eyes of anyone. Look up her photographs and tell me you cannot help but fall in love with her eyes alone!

I've probably seen Colleen Moore and got her confused with Louise Brooks.

@auletjohnast03638

3 жыл бұрын

Anita, Louise Brooks is considered the most beautiful woman in the world ever, an American Venus.

Awesome video as usual.

Good Documentary, I loved it

Colleen was an amazing woman! I met her on several occasions. She was always a bit feisty and always entertaining;-)

Moore - who was 'first on the scene' - now appears to us as a kind of bridge between the Lalique-like monumental beauty of Louise Brooks and the down the earth cut-on-the-bias vamp of Clara Bow. Honest and fun, and just a touch mischievous, Moore seems fazed by little, terrifcally practical and graced with a soupçon of the naive: one has the sense she wouldn't care much for Pabst's Berlin after a few hours and that it was just good sense to try to stay out of the scandal sheets. As for 'the terror of the microphone', one can imagine her quipping, 'Ah, well, I guess for me that means back to the dollhouse. No, sweetie, I mean literally.'

I commend the maker of this documentary. Thank you

Thank you..... now I have to hunt for her book.

Outstanding channel. The decade when the greatest generation was born. No welfare, no food stamps, no antibiotics, no social security.................. from this crucible of economic depression, poverty, and World War II developed a generation that built the greatest nation on earth. Great channel.

When it comes to Flapper world, Louise Brooks was the Rolex, this woman the Swatch, regardless what our narrator says.

She was one of the very best actresses of the silent era and is well-remembered by anyone interested in that era.

When I think of a 1920s flapper, I always think of Louise Brooks

I've been watching Hollywood, originally made in 1980, narrated by the incomparable James Mason and Colleen Moore looks absolutely unbelievable, please find it if you can. The particular episode is Swanson & Valentino

i’ve got a shirt with a picture of her on it, wearin it right now. love her

I appreciate YOUR take on historic motion picture stars and not just going to previous documentaries or her own works except for the Fitzgerald quote.

She was so beautiful. RIP.

I truly enjoyed this. Thank you. June #year2021 ....oh how I wish it was June #year1921

The 1920’s was a unique and interesting period of time and no one woman personified that era more than Colleen Moore, the ultimate and quintessential flapper. Excellent documentary. It’s too bad you couldn’t have included a clip or two from her TV interviews so we could hear this star of the silents speak.