 Audiences first discovered the handsome youth that same year opposite the studio's leading flapper, Madge Bellamy, in "Colleen", one of the era's many comedy-dramas.Morton went on the star in John Ford's 1928 World War I silent film "Four Sons".Morton was also a member of the ultimately tragic circus troupe in F. W. Murnau's near-classic "4 Devils", among the most mourned of the lost films of the silent era.