Colleen Moore
Toronto Daily Star, December 3 1934
Colleen Moore (1899-1988, but claimed she was born in 1902) appeared in four sound films between 1933 and 1934 before giving up on her movie comeback and retiring from acting. However, unlike many other film stars of the silent era, she invested her money and remained wealthy for the rest of her life. She eventually became a partner of Merrill Lynch and published a book in 1969 titled How Women Can Make Money in the Stock Market.
Ms. Moore also had an interest in dollhouses. The best-known of these is the Colleen Moore Dollhouse, which has been on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago since the early 1950s and was estimated in 1985 to be worth approximately $7 million.
The portrait of Ms. Moore shown here is unusual, as her hair was not bobbed in this photo. She popularized the bobbed haircut in the 1920s and apparently wore it for the rest of her life.
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