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Norma Shearer‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1902-08-10

Popularity

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Norma Shearer

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Norma Shearer

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1902-08-10

Popularity

star3.7

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl next door, but for most of the Pre-Code film era, beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies. Later she appeared in historical and period films. Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before. Focus shifted to her pre-Code "divorcee" persona, and Shearer was rediscovered as "the exemplar of sophisticated [1930's] woman-hood... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards". Simultaneously, Shearer's ten-year collaboration with portrait photographer George Hurrell and her lasting contribution to fashion through the designs of Adrian were also recognized. Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

The Women

The Women‌
star7.0
calendar 1939

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929‌
star5.7
calendar 1929

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man‌
star6.5
calendar 1924

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped‌
star7.6
calendar 1924

Empty Hands

Empty Hands‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette‌
star6.3
calendar 1938

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight‌
star5.7
calendar 1939

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet‌
star6.1
calendar 1936

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

Channing of the Northwest

Channing of the Northwest‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Married Flirts

Married Flirts‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

A Man's Man

A Man's Man‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Divorcee

The Divorcee‌
star6.3
calendar 1930

A Free Soul

A Free Soul‌
star6.1
calendar 1931

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools‌
star5.6
calendar 1931

Lady of the Night

Lady of the Night‌
star6.0
calendar 1925

Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg‌
star7.2
calendar 1928

Her Cardboard Lover

Her Cardboard Lover‌
star5.1
calendar 1942

Strangers May Kiss

Strangers May Kiss‌
star5.1
calendar 1931

Private Lives

Private Lives‌
star6.3
calendar 1931

Their Own Desire

Their Own Desire‌
star4.8
calendar 1929

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Hollywood: The Dream Factory‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Trial of Mary Dugan‌
star6.0
calendar 1929

Escape

Escape‌
star7.4
calendar 1940

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude‌
star5.7
calendar 1932

Let Us Be Gay

Let Us Be Gay‌
star4.0
calendar 1930

Pretty Ladies

Pretty Ladies‌
star4.7
calendar 1925

Upstage

Upstage‌
star6.0
calendar 1926

A Lady of Chance

A Lady of Chance‌
star6.5
calendar 1928

The Waning Sex

The Waning Sex‌
star5.8
calendar 1926

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage‌
star6.5
calendar 1983

The Devil's Circus

The Devil's Circus‌
star7.2
calendar 1926

Riptide

Riptide‌
star6.2
calendar 1934

After Midnight

After Midnight‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Girl 27

Girl 27‌
star6.4
calendar 2007

We Were Dancing

We Were Dancing‌
star4.2
calendar 1942

Lucretia Lombard

Lucretia Lombard‌
star5.0
calendar 1923

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney‌
star5.5
calendar 1929

A Clouded Name

A Clouded Name‌
star6.0
calendar 1923

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Checking Out: Grand Hotel‌
star7.0
calendar 2004

The Tower of Lies

The Tower of Lies‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Sports on the Silver Screen

Sports on the Silver Screen‌
star10.0
calendar 1997

The Christmas Party

The Christmas Party‌
star5.4
calendar 1931

Broadway After Dark

Broadway After Dark‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story‌
star0.0
calendar 1990

The Actress

The Actress‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Way Down East

Way Down East‌
star6.9
calendar 1920

Going Hollywood

Going Hollywood‌
star5.5
calendar 1933

That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment!‌
star7.2
calendar 1974

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

Joan Crawford: Always the Star‌
star7.5
calendar 1996

We're switching to Hollywood

We're switching to Hollywood‌
star4.8
calendar 1931

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound‌
star6.7
calendar 1940

1925 Studio Tour

1925 Studio Tour‌
star6.2
calendar 1925

The Restless Sex

The Restless Sex‌
star0.0
calendar 1920

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III‌
star6.9
calendar 1994

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture‌
star6.6
calendar 2002

The Romance of Celluloid

The Romance of Celluloid‌
star7.0
calendar 1937

Waking Up the Town

Waking Up the Town‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

The Latest from Paris

The Latest from Paris‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

The Snob

The Snob‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

A Slave of Fashion

A Slave of Fashion‌
star2.0
calendar 1925

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards‌
star6.5
calendar 1940

Judy Garland: By Myself

Judy Garland: By Myself‌
star7.5
calendar 2004

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World‌
star5.5
calendar 1940

Hollywood Goes to Town

Hollywood Goes to Town‌
star7.0
calendar 1938

Complicated Women

Complicated Women‌
star6.7
calendar 2003

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After‌
star6.0
calendar 1944

From the Ends of the Earth

From the Ends of the Earth‌
star0.0
calendar 1939

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind‌
star8.0
calendar 1988

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood‌
star6.4
calendar 2008

The Film Parade

The Film Parade‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Another Romance of Celluloid

Another Romance of Celluloid‌
star5.0
calendar 1938

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner‌
star9.5
calendar 2019

Master Will Shakespeare

Master Will Shakespeare‌
star5.5
calendar 1936

His Secretary

His Secretary‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Blue Water

Blue Water‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

Excuse Me

Excuse Me‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

The Wanters

The Wanters‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

The Trail of the Law

The Trail of the Law‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

The Bootleggers

The Bootleggers‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Taming of the Shrewd

The Taming of the Shrewd‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Devil's Partner

The Devil's Partner‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Broken Barriers

Broken Barriers‌
star1.0
calendar 1924

The Stealers

The Stealers‌
star0.0
calendar 1920

Man and Wife

Man and Wife‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Pleasure Mad

Pleasure Mad‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Torchy's Millions

Torchy's Millions‌
star0.0
calendar 1920

The Man Who Paid

The Man Who Paid‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Star Boarder

The Star Boarder‌
star7.0
calendar 1919

The Demi-Bride

The Demi-Bride‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

The End of the World

The End of the World‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8‌
star4.0
calendar 1939

The Flapper

The Flapper‌
star6.0
calendar 1920

The End of the World

The End of the World‌
star0.0
calendar

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