Flaming Youth: Fragment of Film With Colleen Moore

[@Goottilainen]

Actually Colleen Moore did took great care of her films. They deteriorated because of MOMA's neglect and horrible care. They were all fine when she donated them to MOMA, but after a while when she inquired about her collection, the museum discovered that they were all destroyed because they weren't kept protected (because they didn't give a shit when they were donated), and thus a lot of them were ruined beyond any restoration. Colleen was very heartbroken when they told her, and afterwards she tried to find every copy of her films that she could but with not much success =/

[@yelloworangered]

That is heartbreaking.

[@VandelayIndustries61]

Goottilainen I've heard that story too, but I've heard it was the UCLA film school she donated to?

[@dariowiter3078]

@@VandelayIndustries61 No, it was not UCLA, but the other instinct that was mentioned above.

[@22222JD]

NYC Museum of Modern Art??

[@hplovecraft2122]

I hope that rumor about a lot of lost films existing in Cuba is true

[@nannybells]

She is such a joy to watch, I wish people took more care of old films..

[@anneshields2010]

Yeah their part of our history sadly I don’t have any old films from the 1920s but I do have some old photos of my great great aunt who was a flapper in the 20s

[@hughmanatee7657]

Scott Fitzgerald wrote that he “was the torch that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the spark.” She had a fascinating life, became a partner at Merrill Lynch and wrote a book about investing.

[@dennisleecleven3209]

Colleen Moore was a brilliant actress. She was vibrant and natural. How sad that this is all that is left of her big hit film "Flaming Youth". Far too many of her movies are lost. It was not restored in time so it decomposed leaving only eleven minutes of an iconic film of the twenties.

[@MadMomma-kj9ks]

The films were all burned in the 1940's.

[@Psilanderfan1884]

This surviving film clip proves to me once again that silent film actresses like Colleen Moore, Miss Lillian Gish, Marie Doro, Anita Stewart, Eve Southern and so many more had the most beautiful eyes! It’s a crying shame this is the only surviving footage of what must have been a fabulous feature film to watch in its entirety!! Rest In Eternal Peace Adorable Colleen Moore and Milton Sills, who sadly died of a heart attack in 1930 after making only one talking film.

[@jackregan3414]

How sad that most of her films were lost. She was such a joy to watch.

[@classicmoviebridge]

Love this. Colleen Moore's survival rate is better then allot of people think. And a few of her lost films have fairly recently been discovered. DINTY (1921), HER WILD OAT (1927), and they are working on SYNTHETIC SIN (1928) and WHY BE GOOD? (1929). Those two should be on TCM sometime next year. Portions of NAUGHTY BUT NICE (1927), and OH KAY (1928) have also been uncovered. I;m holding out hope not just for FLAMING YOUTH , but SO BIG, WE MODERNS and several others to be found.

[@workingtheworld68]

great news - love TCM and will be looking for them. But hopefully not on their weekly Sunday showing of silents at midnight. Collen should have a whole day dedicated to her like the other stars of her caliber.

[@tensaibr]

@@workingtheworld68 what's TCM?

[@dianekimball6812]

@@tensaibr Turner Classic Movies

[@tensaibr]

@@dianekimball6812 thank you :)

[@dianekimball6812]

@@tensaibr you're welcome.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

She was so luminous and charming. Louise Brooks was shown me in film classes (because of Pabst) but no Colleen Moore. Pity. Sad her films were not better cared for. I love what I see.

[@MrJadedtom]

It is a shame that Louise and Colleen never collaborated. I would have loved to have seen a film in which Colleen played a 'bad' girl and Louise played a 'good' girl. They are close to good and evil twins!

[@charlesveg]

Yes! That juxtaposition and good girl/bad girl roles would have doubtless been box office dynamite then and a wonderful treat to watch now!

[@anneshields2010]

It be so cool if this movie in its full was lurking in someone’s basement or attic I’d love to see this movie and Coleen is stunning

[@lairdkaren]

Such an amazing piece of film history--thank you for posting this! I kept finding references to this film as I research 1920s American culture. I can see now from this clip why Colleen Moore caused such a sensation.

[@virghammer1]

Thank you SO much for posting this! My gr'mother in MN & namesake Va. - ADORED & emulated Colleen Moore. -- They looked a lot alike. I still own a wonderful, big, homemade scrapbook she kept in the 1920s - full OF CLIPPINGS / pictures of Rudolph Valentino and Colleen M. Isn't Colleen adorable? - So sad most of her films are gone. THX TONS, MrJadedtom ! VCH & Midlantic Theatre Co. Theatre in Renaissance Newark + Schools & Prisons A NJ 501(c)3 nonprofit corp.

[@johnhenry3841]

I think this is Clara Bow, not Colleen Moore.

[@anneshields2010]

Wish I had a time machine to go back to the 1920s and see all the movies and meet my great great aunt who was a flapper and we could hang out and have fun I’m living in the wrong 20s

[@johnandmarylouwilde7882]

I read her probably ghosted autobiography a few years ago. From it I got the impression that she started in movies on something of a lark and honed her craft as she went along. I'd seen her in a couple of talkies (The power and the glory and I forget the title of the other one) in which she played somewhat subdued and suppressed figures, so until I watched Ella Cinders and this fragment on KZbin I didn't realize how good an actress she was, especially at conveying emotion through facial expression.

[@TheElisabethPage]

brought here by the Silence is Platinum blog. Colleen Moore superb as ever! :)

[@Nummymuffincocobutter]

If only Kino on Video would put out a box set of her movies like they did with Buster Keaton..wish they would..

[@avedic]

More than any decade of the last incredible century...the 1920s is the one I'd love to live in...to truly understand it. New York City in say, 1925. I was born in 83, for reference. It just seemed like such an interesting time. The change from Victorian to Modern. It's amazing to think that someone who was 20 in 1925 would now be 108. It's hard to imagine someone 108 as a once beautiful and vivacious flapper girl...but it's the truth. Such an amazing time...

[@adajanetta1]

Have you ever seen the opening scenes of Thoroughly Modern Millie, with Julie Andrews? It has a country mouse arriving in the Big City and learning how to dress like a modern girl. It's cute as can be.

[@cattycorner8]

lol I am a good deal older than you and for a sec thought you meant you were born in 1883!

[@MadMomma-kj9ks]

If I lived in the 1920's I surely wouldnt go watch any coleen moore movies. I would go buy an airplane and fly it, and drive a Chrysler with hydraulic brakes.....

[@ladyrazorsharp]

"go all to smash" is my new favorite phrase. Good lord, she's adorable and he is extremely easy on the eyes.

[@simday1396]

This is Gold.

[@classicmoviebridge]

This is not a Trailer, but Random assorted Fragments. Apparently all that could be salvaged. The sad thing is this film existed intact at the Museum Of Modern Art in the 50's It was deposited there by Colleen along with 9 of her other Silent features in the 1940's. When Kevin Brownlow went looking for footage for his Hollywood Documentary in the late 70's this was all that they could find. Here is hoping that additional reels, or a complete print surfaces someplace.

[@cattycorner8]

Jeff Alanson That is a really heartbreaking story. This film looks fantastic!

[@michaelmerta8956]

What an gorgeous pretty lady.

[@TTatitalks]

It’s pretty sad some of the flims are lost

[@haneul4164]

"Your mother used to tell me of you and your sisters. She Said "wait until they grow up, then come back to America and marry one of them" " SUUUUURE SHE SAID THAT, BRO. SURE

[@JeryTillotson123]

I so wish all the great silent stars like Coleen Moore thought ahead like Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd: they kept copies of everything they filmed. They owned all the rights, took great care of their film work and that's why we see mostly their movies on TCM or other tributes to Silent Screen stars.

[@alexanderduluoz]

She did but the museum she donated them to neglected them.

[@peterquennellnyc]

@@alexanderduluoz Nonsense. The nitrate films were wrongly labeled when handed over to MOMA, nitrate was a rarity by 1944. Had they been labeled "nitrate" they would have been put in low-humidity cold storage or converted. Much as I love Colleen Moore and feel for her, she or her agent should have converted the nitrate to cellulose acetate which had been around even in the 20s, or put clear instructions in the bequest, and periodically visited the vault, and kept some copies on cellulose acetate for herself. (This assumes she had ownership; hearsay says Warner Brothers might have taken the films back.)

[@poetcomic1]

S. J. Perleman's hilarious memoir and re-seeing of the film are worth looking up:

[@terrylawsonjr9786]

Coleen Moore was thin and very pretty She was giirl next door you’ve been in love with your entire life She had very expressive lovely eyes You can’t help loving her

[@ramencurry6672]

@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus . What a weird comment. You’re that weird annoying guy in the room

[@goatdennis]

thank you for sharing this. i really like martin sills

[@MrFalconford]

thankyou for sharing and saving

[@siempremarisol]

PRETTY COLLEEN

[@benbreeg4881]

She was beautiful

[@newwavepop]

is this the entirety of what still exists? :(

[@plutoshearer3650]

Unfortunately yes 😓

[@4672-m9f]

A Heavenly Beauty! *

[@henrysmith4464]

I wonder who the band was? I also wonder what happened to the wardrobe of designer clothes

[@kirksjunque]

I'm not any expert, but that sure looks like Abe Lyman and his orchestra there. Check out his "Varsity Drag" here on KZbin---he's the drummer, front and center with orchestra behind him, and has that little gimmick of twirling the drumstick in his hand. Could be an actor copying him, but a darned close resemblance.

[@SufferingFoolsMusic]

Isn't that "fire" actually nitrate decay on the film?

[@MrJadedtom]

+SufferingFoolsMusic Well, yes. But that would be like explaining the joke...

[@SufferingFoolsMusic]

+MrJadedtom True... and it's a good one.

[@barryrivadue9228]

11 minutes is not a trailer. It's fragments of what's left of the feature.

[@MrJadedtom]

Thanks for your elucidation, Barry.

[@krdiaz8026]

Did she put several perfumes on herself?

[@johnnyDepp-os6le]

1923年

[@caroltenge5147]

Take the fake scratches off the film, theres enough original ones there already.

[@The1trueking1966]

There's nothing fake about this film.HAVE SOME RESPECT

[@The1trueking1966]

What happened to the rest of the film?