Want to know the best Colleen Moore movies? How about the worst Colleen Moore movies? Curious about Colleen Moore box office grosses or which Colleen Moore movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Colleen Moore movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information.
Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was an American actress. Moore was one of the most fashionable and highly-paid stars of the silent movie era Her IMDb page shows 64 acting credits from 1916 to 1934. This page will rank Colleen Moore movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition. FYI – This is not all of her movies, just the ones we have box office grosses on. Thanks to Mike for all of his research, as many of her movies made the list because of his hard work.
Colleen Moore Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
| Year | Movie (Year) | Rating | S |
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| 1928 | Lilac Time (1928) |  |
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| 1917 | The Little American (1917) |  |
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| 1923 | Flaming Youth (1923) |  |
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| 1929 | Synthetic Sin (1929) | |
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| 1933 | The Power and the Glory (1933) | |
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| 1926 | Twinkletoes (1926) | |
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| 1928 | Oh Kay! (1928) |  |
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| 1929 | Why Be Good? (1929) | |
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| 1926 | Irene (1926) | |
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| 1927 | Orchids and Ermine (1927) | |
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| 1928 | Happiness Ahead (1928) | |
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| 1927 | Her Wild Oat (1927) | |
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| 1926 | Ella Cinders (1926) | |
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| 1923 | The Nth Commandment (1923) | |
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| 1924 | So Big (1924) | |
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| 1925 | Sally (1925) | |
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| 1929 | Footlights and Fools (1929) | |
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| 1925 | The Desert Flower (1925) | |
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| 1934 | Social Register (1934) |  |
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| 1934 | Success At Any Price (1934) |  |
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| 1925 | We Moderns (1925) | |
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| 1924 | Painted People (1924) | |
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| 1924 | Flirting with Love (1924) | |
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| 1922 | The Wall Flower (1922) | |
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| 1922 | Come On Over (1922) | |
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| 1929 | Smiling Irish Eyes (1929) |  |
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| 1927 | Naughty But Nice (1927) | |
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| 1924 | The Perfect Flapper (1924) | |
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| 1922 | Broken Chains (1922) | |
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| 1934 | The Scarlet Letter (1934) |  |
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| 1924 | Through the Dark (1924) |  |
Colleen Moore Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort Colleen Moore movies by her co-stars
- Sort Colleen Moore movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Colleen Moore movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Colleen Moore movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Colleen Moore movie received.
- Sort Colleen Moore movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R
Movie (Year)
UMR Co-Star Links
Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil)
Review
Oscar Nom / Win
UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1
Lilac Time (1928)
Gary Cooper
5.60
177.0
177.00
4
84
00 / 00
96.7
2
The Little American (1917)
Mary Pickford
2.60
174.8
174.80
3
56
00 / 00
88.2
3
Flaming Youth (1923)
Milton Sills
1.30
58.4
58.40
15
75
00 / 00
80.0
4
Synthetic Sin (1929)
Antonio Moreno
1.60
48.8
48.80
90
76
00 / 00
78.5
5
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Spencer Tracy
1.60
75.4
75.40
56
65
00 / 00
76.4
6
Twinkletoes (1926)
Warner Oland
1.10
41.3
41.30
34
71
00 / 00
71.8
7
Oh Kay! (1928)
Lawrence Gray
1.60
50.2
50.20
62
66
00 / 00
69.1
8
Why Be Good? (1929)
Neil Hamilton
1.00
30.6
30.60
114
69
00 / 00
65.0
10
Irene (1926)
Lloyd Hughes
1.10
38.4
38.40
36
64
00 / 00
62.1
9
Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Mickey Rooney
1.20
40.1
40.10
52
63
00 / 00
61.3
11
Happiness Ahead (1928)
Edmund Love
1.30
41.1
41.10
71
62
00 / 00
59.5
12
Her Wild Oat (1927)
Larry Kent
1.20
39.0
39.00
56
62
00 / 00
59.1
13
Ella Cinders (1926)
Lloyd Hughes
0.70
26.1
26.10
60
65
00 / 00
56.3
14
The Nth Commandment (1923)
Directed by Frank Borzage
0.30
13.3
13.30
38
68
00 / 00
54.6
15
So Big (1924)
Joseph De Grasse
0.60
27.9
27.90
36
63
00 / 00
54.1
17
Sally (1925)
Leon Errol
1.00
41.4
41.40
29
58
00 / 00
52.4
18
Footlights and Fools (1929)
Fredric March
1.90
59.3
59.30
75
52
00 / 00
52.0
16
The Desert Flower (1925)
Kate Price
0.40
17.4
17.40
51
65
00 / 00
51.2
19
Social Register (1934)
Charles Winninger
0.40
16.7
16.70
185
61
00 / 00
43.7
20
Success At Any Price (1934)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
0.40
18.2
18.20
180
57
00 / 00
36.1
21
We Moderns (1925)
Jack Mulhall
0.80
31.0
31.00
34
53
00 / 00
34.7
22
Painted People (1924)
Ben Lyon
0.70
30.1
30.10
33
53
00 / 00
34.3
25
Flirting with Love (1924)
Conway Tearle
0.80
33.0
33.00
30
51
00 / 00
31.7
23
The Wall Flower (1922)
Richard Dix
0.20
10.8
10.80
38
58
00 / 00
31.6
24
Come On Over (1922)
Ralph Graves
0.40
17.1
17.10
29
56
00 / 00
31.6
27
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
James Hall
2.00
60.4
60.40
72
41
00 / 00
29.2
26
Naughty But Nice (1927)
Loretta Young
1.30
43.5
43.50
48
46
00 / 00
28.3
28
The Perfect Flapper (1924)
Syd Chaplin
0.60
24.2
24.20
45
50
00 / 00
24.6
29
Broken Chains (1922)
Malcolm McGregor
0.30
15.4
15.40
33
51
00 / 00
22.1
30
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Alan Hale
0.10
6.8
6.80
197
47
00 / 00
11.6
31
Through the Dark (1924)
Forrest Stanley
0.10
5.7
5.70
63
44
00 / 00
8.6
Check out Colleen Moore’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Last night I watched my first Colleen Moore movie: Why Be Good? It was an enjoyable silent movie. It had been recorded on my DVR for about a month and I was inspired to try it out since I saw you make this page for Moore and I realized I had not seen any. I hope TCM has more of her movies in their roster. As has been said before, some movies are lost forever.
Hey Flora…..that is awesome that you got to see a Colleen Moore movie. Glad our Moore page got you motivated to watch it. Even better news that you liked her movie. The power of TCM. Hope they get some more Moore movies in the rotation. Good comment.
Thanks for posting this! I wonder how many CAN be seen today, and at what effort?
It continually amazes me how poorly preserved the hit movies of this era were. Films were clearly big business at this time already, with reels going out to many different theaters across the country, and a whole press supporting its spread; yet even in the case of the biggest stars, their work is so often lost entirely.
Film is fragile, and I guess it never occurred to anyone that you could make money off of these things twice, let alone for each of a dozen generations now… a shame.
Thanks again! I’m sure these old ones are quite difficult to compile.
Hey Shaun. Thanks for checking out our Colleen Moore page. According to Wiki….almost half of her movies are lost or incomplete….that is a horrible %…….but it is closing in on 100 years on almost every one of her movies. Of the remaining films….I am not thinking many can be seen…I know I have not seen a single Moore movie….and I watch a ton of movies. I agree with your comment 100%. Good comment.
Not counting Ben Hur I’ve seen a whole 2 of Colleen’s films listed, The Power and the Glory and The Scarlet Letter
Colleen Moore was the # 10 box office star of 1923. # 8 in 1925, # 1 in 1926, # 2 in 1927, # 3 of 1928, # 9 of 1929. # 5 of 1930 and # 9 of 1931.
Although never on the top 1000 Oracle of Bacon list, Colleem was the # 463 most connected actor of the 1910’s and the # 222 connected actor of the 1920’s.
She does not connect to anyone on the present list.
Colleen did appear with 10 Oscar winners.
CLARK GABLE Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
FREDRIC MARCH FOOTLIGHTS AND FOOLS (1929)
GARY COOPER Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
GARY COOPER Lilac Time (1928)
JANET GAYNOR Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
JOAN CRAWFORD Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
LORETTA YOUNG Her Wild Oat (1927)
MARY PICKFORD Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
MARY PICKFORD The Little American (1917)
SPENCER TRACY The Power and the Glory (1933)
WALLACE BEERY The Little American (1917)
Let’s have some fun. Let’s connect Colleen to the top 10 most connected actors now.
1. Christopher Lee was in 1941 (1979) with Robert Stack who was in Nice Girl (1941) with Robert Benchley who was in Social Register with Colleen.
#2 Michael Caine was in Sweet Liberty with Lillian Gish who was in Ben Hur with Colleen.
# 3 Christopher Plummer was in The Fall of the Roman Empire with Sophia Loren who was in Heller in Pink Tights with Ramon Novarro who was in The Little American with Colleen.
# 4 Robert De Niro was in Showtime with William Shatner who was in Judgment at Nuremberg with Spencer Tracy who was in The Power and the Glory with Colleen.
# 5 Harvey Keitel was in The January Man with Rod Steiger who was in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell with Gary Cooper who was in Lilac Time with Colleen.
# 6 Martin Sheen was in Pickup on 101 with George Chandler who was in the Power and the Glory with Colleen.
# 7 John Hurt was in Once Upon a Halloween with Billy Bletcher who was in A Roman Scandal with Colleen.
# 8 Samuel L. Jackson was in Goodfellas with Henny Youngman who was in Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood with Richard Arlen who was in Sally with Colleen.
# 9 Donald Sutherland was in Alien Thunder with Kevin McCarthy who was in Death of a Salesman with Fredric March who was in Footlights and Fools with Colleen,
# 10 Dennis Hopper was in The Story of Mankind with Edward Everett Horton who was in Success at Any Price with Colleen.
Harry Styles was in Dunkirk with Michael Caine who was with Lillian Gish, yada yada.
Camilla Cabello was in Cinderella with Pierce Brosnan who was in The Mirror Has Two Faces with George Segal who was in The Young Doctors with Fredric March yada yada.
Mickey Mantle was in That Touch of Mink with Cary Grant who was in Alice in Wonderland with Edward Everett Horton, yada, yada.
Johnny Unitas was in Gus with Virginia O’Brien who was in Hullabaloo with Frank Morgan who was in Success at Any Price with Colleen.
Liam Hemsworth was in The Expendables 2 with Sylvester Stallone who was in Capone with George Chandler, yada yada.
Hey Dan. Wow…a combined 2 for our tally counts….sorry I could not help the team….lol. Thanks for sharing the information on her Top 10 Box Office Years and her Oracle connections through the decades. 10 Oscar winning co-stars is pretty good considering she only made a handful of movies after they were created.
Really liked your Oracle connections on the current Top 10 and Moore….not to mention the others……being partial to Peyton Manning……I wonder how many connections to would take to get get Peyton to Colleen.
Let’s see. Peyton was in Ferdinand…which also starred Bobby Cannavale. Cannavale was in Fast Food Nation with Bruce Wills. Willis was in Nobody’s Fool and The Verdict with Paul Newman. Newman was in Hombre with Fredric March. March was Moore’s co-star in Footlights and Fools (1929).
Shaquille O’Neal was in Smurfs 2 with Jonathan Winters who was in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Edward Everett Horton, yada, yada.
Taylor Swift was in Valentine’s Day with Shirley MacLaine who was in Around the World in 80 Days with Edmund Lowe who was in Happiness Ahead with Colleen.
Paul McCartney was in Give My Regards to Broad Street with Ralph Richardson who was in Java Head with Anna May Wong who was in Dinty with Colleen.
Not going to do well on this one when it comes to movies seen….my tally is a big goose egg…..so put me down for 0.