[3] After her father died during World War I, her mother remarried in 1925 and Moore took her stepfather's name.

[3]: 177  She attended Darlington Seminary in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and William Penn High School in Harrisburg.

[4] The Edna Preston stock theater company gave Moore her first professional acting opportunity.

Broadway plays in which she appeared included Dance With Your Gods (1934), Murder at the Vanities (1933), The Prisoner (1927), The Fountain (1925), Man and the Masses (1924), and The Easiest Way (1921).

[8] On December 7, 2001, Moore died of Lou Gehrig's disease at a nursing home in Sequim, Washington.