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...Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

Painted People. Colleen Moore has collected for herself so much reputation that her managers, forgetting themselves entirely, let her loose with a surpassingly stupid scenario. It is probable that Miss Moore will know better next time. From the theatre pit she can see herself as others see her?striving desperately with impossible material, and by no means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...this film will undoubtedly appeal. A simple boarding school girl assists a criminal to escape from San Quentin prison by a pleasantly incredible device; drawn into his underworld life, she finally regenerates him with her love. On the face of it such a yarn seems almost impossibly cinemesque. Colleen Moore manages to make it plausible in spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports and reflections therein would fortify her philosophy against a jazz-mad world. Milton Sills and Colleen Moore make much of the leading roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

Married. Miss Colleen Moore, cinema actress, to John Emmett McCormick, Western representative of Associated First National Pictures, Inc., at Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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