Word: colleens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Footlights and Fools (First National). In wigs and short silk dancing clothes, against elaborate colored settings Colleen Moore plays a French actress in love with a race-track tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series of hooks for hanging up songs and dances. It is unfortunate under the circumstances that Colleen Moore has little singing voice and cannot dance. A typical Irish-American girl, spontaneous and convincing in parts that are natural to her, she is clearly uncomfortable in Footlights and Fools. Silliest shot: Miss...
Coming out of the green mist that has enveloped her in numerous Erin and Great Western roles, Colleen Moore emerges this week at the Met as a really first string triple threat talkie star. Without any doubt "Footlights And Fools", a sea of comedy with cross currents of dramatic interest is Miss Moore's best piece of work. Incidentaly, it probably will bring her new admirers from the ranks of those who have been frankly cold to her smiling Irish eyes...
Metropolitan--Colleen Moore in "Footlights and Fools". Morton Downey in person...
...Film. Under contract to First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...