My father, John Daniel Moore's First Cousin, Maurine Ryan d age 90 1987 always said silent film star Owen Moore, b in Meath 12 Dec 1886, was their First Cousin. Owen was Mary Pickford's first husband.
Since starting research this year I discovered Owen had 3 brothers also silent film
stars. I found their birth and death dates, their spouses, a child who's since
died - here's the posted
genealogy.
I found that their father, John, immigrated from Ireland to Toledo, Ohio in
1898. I haven't found a link to my family.
1/22/2001 Oooo! Someone gave me more info (included in posted genealogy).
Owen Moore - Owen has Hollywood Star 6743 Hollywood Blvd.
First husband to Mary Pickford, real name Gladys Mary Smith. She left him for Douglas Fairbanks. Second wife Katherine Perry, also a silent film star.
Early in Mary's career.
Owen Moore and Mary
Pickford;
from The Lonely Villa (Biograph, 1909)
(Moore and Pickford would marry in 1911 and divorce in 1920.)
You can't tell a booksalesman by his book covers or a parlor maid by her
outfit.
Count von Ritz (Owen Moore) and millionariess Meena (Dorothy
Gish)
meet again and rekindle their romance after their fortunes change for the
wealthier;
from Little Meena's Romance (Triangle, 1916).
The Heiress and the Count.
Dorothy Gish
and Owen Moore;
from Little Meena's Romance (Triangle, 1916).
There is only room enough for one thief in this mansion.
"West End Bertie" (Owen Moore, left) comes face to face with his rival
- "The Blackbird" (Lon
Chaney);
from The Blackbird (M-G-M, 1926).
"The Blackbird" (Lon
Chaney)
atones for his life of crime by living out his days as The Bishop of Limehouse.
He gives his blessing to his old rival,
"West End Bertie" (Owen Moore) and Fifi (Renée Adorée), the girl
they both love;
from The Blackbird (M-G-M, 1926).
What does it take for a girl to get noticed?
Owen Moore and Marion
Davies;
from The Red Mill (Cosmopolitan, for M-G-M, 1927).
Too in love to feel the cold.
Marion Davies
and Owen Moore;
from The Red Mill (Cosmopolitan, for M-G-M, 1927).
Joslyn (Joan
Crawford) is torn between two men
- Lee (Owen Moore), a gambler, and Kelvin, a professional dancer;
from The Taxi Dancer (M-G-M, 1927).
A busload of travelers is marooned in a remote rural chapel:
Billie (Carole
Lombard), a pretty crook on her way to jail,
Bill (William
Boyd) a laborer,
J. Milton Hendrickson (Phillips Smalley), a banker steeped in greed,
Deputy Egan (Owen Moore), escorting Billie to jail
and Diane (Diane Ellis) a bride-to-be on the way to her wedding;
from High Voltage (Pathe Exchange, 1929).
She Done Him Wrong was a huge hit. Made for just $200,000, half of
which went to West for writing and starring, it returned $2 million domestically
on its initial release and another $1 million in international markets. That
wasn't enough to pull Paramount out of the hole, but it raised studio morale and
their image enough to help them edge back toward profitability. The film made
West a household name and boosted the career of co-star Grant, who was just
starting in films. He would later claim that he learned most of what he knew
about playing comedy from watching West at work.
She Done Him Wrong also changed fashions, bringing back the hourglass
figure, and encouraged a run of films set in the 1890s. But there was also the
inevitable backlash. West's suggestive song "I Like a Man That Takes his
Time" was so heavily cut by censors that Paramount called back all release
prints to cut the middle stanzas. Other lines were cut by local censors, and the
film was banned outright in Java, Latvia, Australia and Vienna. It also
triggered renewed cries for national film censorship that led to the
strengthening of the Production Code in 1934. That, in turn, would create even
more battles for West and the censors, though they could do nothing to diminish
the sexual independence of her characters. Even in the more liberated era of the
'70s, West amazed audiences with her sexual forthrightness when she returned to
filmmaking after decades off-screen for a small role as a predatory agent in Myra
Breckinridge (1970).
Producer: William LeBaron
Director: Lowell Sherman
Screenplay: Mae West, Harvey Thew, John Bright
Based on the play Diamond Lil by Mae West
Cinematography: Charles Lang
Art Direction: Robert Usher
Music: Ralph Rainger
Principal Cast: Mae West (Lady Lou), Cary Grant (Capt. Cummings), Owen Moore
(Chick Clark), Gilbert Roland (Serge Stanieff), Noah Beery, Sr. (Gus
Jordan), Rafaela Ottiano (Russian Rita), Rochelle Hudson (Sally Glynn), Fuzzy
Knight (Ragtime Kelly), Louise Beavers (Pearl).
BW-65m.
Irish-born Owen
Moore came to America at age 11, along with his three brothers, Matt, Tom,
and Joe -- actors all. At 19, Moore began his theatrical career, abandoning the
stage in 1908 to work with D.W.
Griffith at the Biograph film studio. Here he met ingénue Mary
Pickford, whom he married in secret (a secret that didn't last very long),
then divorced in 1920 when both he and Mary found others to fulfill their
private lives. Owen
Moore's later career was not as successful, though he staged some worthwhile
comeback attempts throughout the talkie era: co-starring with his brothers, Matt
and Tom, in 1929's Side
Street, offering a bizarre and unsettling performance as Mae
West's imprisoned ex-boyfriend in She
Done Him Wrong, and convincingly portraying a cold-sober movie director in
Selznick's A Star Is Born (1937). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tom Moore - Thomas J. Moore, married to Alice Joyce, also silent film star. They had a child Alice Moore d 1960 Washington DC.
Tom Moore has Hollywood Star 1640 Vine Street
Mabel
and Tom Moore in her first Goldwyn feature;
the comedy Dodging a Million (Goldwyn, 1918)
- now a lost film.
The proud Lowry family.
Willliam (Tom Moore), Miss Lowry (Renée Adorée) and Lowry Sr. (Charles
Eldridge);
from the romantic comedy Made in Heaven (Goldwyn, 1921).
Ménage à trois '20s style.
Jenny Lou (Jacqueline Logan) has been invited by Mrs. Blaisdell (Phyllis
Haver)
to be her houseguest not realizing this dark-haired Southern Belle
carries a torch for Mr. Blaisdell (Tom Moore);
from The Wise Wife (De Mille Pictures, for Pathe Exchange, 1927).
Tom's wife
Matt Moore
has Hollywood Star 6301 Hollywood Blvd
Marion
Davies plays Rue Carew, a woman vulnerable
to German spies (again!) because of a secret she learned as a child;
from The Dark Star - (Cosmopolitan Productions, A Paramount Artcraft
Special, 1919).
Pictured with her are Dorothy Green and Matt Moore.
Mary
Pickford plays a fully-grown, heartless Southern belle,
who pays for her sins in Coquette (United Artists, 1929),
an Academy Award winning performance (and United Artist's first, as well).
She is entertaining Matt Moore (standing) and John Sainpolis.
The Brothers Moore.
Left to right - Matt (1888 - 1960), Owen (1886 - 1939) and Tom (1883 - 1955).
and
Joe Moore
his wife Grace Cunard, born Harriet Mildred Jeffries
