Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture by Kobel Peter

Author:Kobel, Peter [Kobel, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316069595
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009-02-27T21:00:00+00:00

Sam Hardy with Moore on a lobby card for Orchids and Ermine (1927).

Flappers represented a liberation from Victorianism but rejected the male fantasy of vamps: they wanted to drive in fast cars, stay out all night, drink from flasks, listen to jazz, have madcap adventures and, perhaps, sex, but they weren’t necessarily decadent—just fun loving. On the other hand, the movies demanded repentance. Of the fairly inconsequential story of Flaming Youth, the New York Times review declared, “The moral of this picture is to show the emptiness of the pace-killing life.”

But before coming to symbolize this phenomenon—and cutting her hair—Moore played a fairly conventional ingenue, starring in oaters with Tom Mix and even in a couple of rural romances with country boy Charles Ray, looking innocent and demure. And in a late silent, the wartime picture Lilac Time, she abandoned her flappish ways for a sentimental drama with Gary Cooper.

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