Trivia

As a hobby, she decided to build the grandest doll house ever, "The Enchanted Castle." She designed it, and working with hundreds of craftsmen over the course of a decade, completed it at the cost of some $500,000. Among its many one-of-a-kind features is a library that comes complete with miniature versions of many great works of literature, including a tiny version of "Tarzan of the Apes" signed by Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Enchanted Castle is now on public display at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry.

In the 1960s she formed a film production company, Vid-More Productions, with director King Vidor, after she met him for the first time in 40 years. Though they had kept in touch in the intervening years, they had resolved never to see each other again after they had a secret affair during the 1920s.

She had one blue eye and one brown eye.

At the height of her popularity she earned a million dollars a year from films. Unlike many of her peers, she was exceptionally savvy with her money, investing it carefully. As a result, she converted her film salaries into an even greater fortune after her retirement from acting.

Donated a copy of her now lost film, Flaming Youth (1923), to a museum in the early Nineteen-sixties. Due to a lack of interest in Silent Era motion pictures, the museum neither preserved nor restored the film and the print deteriorated. In his essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age," author F. Scott Fitzgerald cites Flaming Youth (1923) as the only film that truly captured the sexual revolution of the Roaring Twenties.

Loretta Young's daughter Judy Lewis wrote that, although Mervyn LeRoy would later claim that he discovered Loretta Young, it was in truth Colleen Moore. Colleen even suggested that her name be changed from Gretchen Young to Loretta Young. The name came from Colleen's favorite childhood doll, Laurita.

WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922. This was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers (WAMPAS) which honored young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of stardom.

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once described her screen persona: ''Colleen Moore represents the young collegiate. The carefree, lovable child who rules bewildered but adoring parents with an iron hand, beats her brothers and beaus on the tennis courts, dances like a professional and has infallible methods for getting her own way. All deliriously celluloid, but why not? The public notoriously prefer glamour to realism. Pictures like Miss Moore's flapper epics present a glamorous dream of youth and gaiety and swift, tapping feet. Youth -- actual youth -- is essentially crude, but her movies idealize it, even as George Gershwin idealizes jazz in Rhapsody in Blue.''.

Godmother of Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald Reagan and his second wife Nancy Reagan. Later, Moore was a special guest at Patti Davis's 1984 wedding to Paul Grilley. In earlier years, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan had vacationed with the politically astute Moore and her husband in Arizona.

Some sources credit the year of her birth as 1902.

She starred in three silent film versions of hit Broadway musicals: Sally (1925), Irene (1926) and Oh Kay! (1928).

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

In her film Flaming Youth (1923), Colleen Moore debuted her trademark flapper haircut: the Dutch boy bob. Colleen's mother Agnes purportedly suggested the idea. However, actress Mary Thurman had already worn the same Dutch boy bob haircut in the early 1920s. Likewise, Ragtime dancer Irene Castle, French actress Polaire, and Lady Diana Cooper had famously bobbed their own hair nearly a decade earlier.

Profiled in "Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen" by William Drew, 1997.

Moore claimed that she owed her career to Walter Howey, her uncle. Film producer D.W. Griffith owed a debt to Howey as he had helped The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) pass the Chicago censorship board. As the managing editor of The Chicago Examiner, he was a key figure in the publishing empire of William Randolph Hearst. Howey was the inspiration for Walter Burns, the fictional Chicago newspaper editor in the play "The Front Page," which was adapted on the screen as The Front Page (1931) and His Girl Friday (1940).

Moore was a staunch Republican. In October 1932, alongside Buster Keaton and Bebe Daniels, she appeared at a Republican Party fundraiser in support of incumbent President Herbert Hoover against Democratic Party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York.

Colleen Moore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft a miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the Great Depression, touring the country to raise funds for children's charities. This one-of-a-kind castle was welcomed into its new home at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in 1949 where it remains today.

Older sister of actor Cleve Moore.

Cousin of Jack Stone.

She has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) & Ella Cinders (1926), & The Power and the Glory (1933).