Word: colleens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incredible as it may seem, flaming youth still flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
Metropolitan -- "We Moderns", with Colleen Moore...
Once she earned her butter and eggs in Christie Comedies with Colleen Moore in Los Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every...
...rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...