Here's a list of the films Colleen made (I haven't included documentaries or newsreel footage, although this certainly exists. It's pretty difficult to get hold of Colleen's films on video, but not impossible. Sadly the film that started the flapper craze, Flaming Youth, is almost entirely lost. Only one battered reel remains. Where I'm certain Colleen played the lead role in a film, I've marked it in. Likewise, where a film is definitely lost, I've marked that in too. Given the loss of films over the decades, more are almost certainly unavailable.

(*) denotes a film that's available on video. Of the 61 listed, I've found 13 so far available on video. That's not a bad amount of available films for one star, especially when you realise that only four of Theda Bara's films survive at all (she was the first cinematic sex bomb) and many of Norma Talmadge's are also missing (Norma was widely held to be the finest dramatic film actresses of her day).

1917
The Savage

Bad Boy

An Old Fashioned Young Man

Hands Up

The Little American (uncredited) (*)

1918
Little Orphant Annie (lead) (*)
Yes, it's a film based on the comic strip of the same name. Colleen actually had appropriately red-brown hair, not that you can tell in black-and-white.

A Hoosier Romance

1919
The Wilderness Trail

A Roman Scandal (*)

The Busher (female lead) (*)

The Man in the Moonlight

The Egg Crate Wallop

Common Property

1920
When Dawn Came

So Long Letty

Her Bridal Night-Mare (*)

The Cyclone

The Devil's Claim

Dinty (lead)

1921
The Lotus Eater (lost)

The Sky Pilot (*)

His Nibs
(A restored print of this exists at UCLA)

1922
The Wall Flower

Forsaking All Others

Come On Over

Affinities

Broken Chains
(Still exists)

The Ninety and Nine

1923
Broken Hearts of Broadway (lead) (*)

Look Your Best

The Nth Commandment
(First 4 and last reel survive out of 8 in the US Library of Congress)
Okay, that's according to the Library's web-based search facility. A man called Earl kindly emailed me and told me that this is not the complete story. While these reels do exist, they're nitrate and in a poor condition. In the 1990s the Library decided to add bridging titles to complete the continuity, and found surviving fragments from throughout the picture. These fragments were out-of-sequence. The Library restored the film to continuity using the serialization of the movie, as published in the Hearst newspapers, for a guide. The Library also used stills and guessed titles to complete the continuity. It is watchable today. Earl estimates that the film is about 70% complete, but because the nitrate deterioration is so bad, it is unlikely that anyone will ever put this title out on video.

Slippy McGee

The Huntress

April Showers

Flaming Youth (lead)
(lost, apart from one reel that's in the US Library of Congress)
The film that revved up the Jazz Age, based on Warner Fabian's novel.

1924
Painted People (lead)

Through the Dark (lead)

The Perfect Flapper (lead)
(Survives, albeit missing some footage, at the US Library of Congress.)

Flirting with Love (lead)

So Big (lead)
Based on Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

1925
Sally (lead)

The Desert Flower (lead) (lost)

We Moderns (lead)

1926
Irene (lead) (*)
This film has a technicolor fashion sequence, but the version available on video has faded to red. If you've ever seen a decent technicolor version, please tell me this: did her eyes show up as two different colours, or doesn't the camera get close enough to see?

Ella Cinders (lead) (*)
Based on the popular comic strip Cinderella in the Movies.

It Must Be Love (lead)

Twinkletoes (lead) (*)
First National publicity claimed Colleen learned to dance en pointe for this film. I've seen a James Abbe photo of her taken in 1921 where she's on her toes, so this may have been studio bluster.

1927
Orchids and Ermine (lead) (*)

Naughty But Nice (lead)

Her Wild Oat (lead)

1928
Happiness Ahead (lead)

Oh Kay! (lead)
Based on the Gershwin musical of the same name. It's still possible to get hold of recordings of the star of the musical, Gertrude Lawrence, singing songs from it in 1926, although I prefer Annette Hanshaw's version of Do, Do, Do.

Lilac Time (lead) (*)
(3 minutes of epilogue music and the track to reel 6 exists)

1929
Synthetic Sin (lead)
(survives, not on video)

Why Be Good? (lead)
Good news! A complete negative of this film has been found in a Europen archive, and the Vitaphone Society has unearthed a complete set of sound discs. Could we possibly hope for a restoration and release for this Jazz age comedy?

Smiling Irish Eyes (lead)
(soundtrack disc exists)

Footlights and Fools (lead)

1933
The Power and the Glory
(survives, not on video)

1934
Success at Any Price
(survives, not on video)

The Scarlet Letter (lead) (*)

The Social Register
(survives, not on video)