Silent / talkies star Colleen Moore, I think, typifies both the look and the ethos of that most interesting era.
And when she moved away from the “flapper” look: still more beautiful.
One last note about Colleen Moore: unlike so many actors and actresses of her (or any) era, she actually learned how to keep and grow her income through careful investment. She even wrote a book about it. Gorgeous and intelligent, by golly.
It’s just a tragedy that most of her movies, like so many of the early stars, have been lost so we can’t appreciate them fully.
