Why Be Good? is a 1929 American sound comedy film produced by First National Pictures starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. While the film has no audible dialogue, it is accompanied by a Vitaphone soundtrack that features a musical score with sound effects and some synchronized singing.
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Colleen Moore was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
Moore in 1920
Film still of Gertrude Astor, Moore, and Richard Dix from The Wall Flower (1922)
Moore on cover of Photoplay magazine, 1926
Promotional portrait of Moore at the height of her fame, c. 1927, showing the famous Dutchboy bobbed haircut that she made famous, and which she apparently kept until the day she died