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Norma Shearer
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Norma Shearer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1902-08-10,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

7

The Women
1939-09-01

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

5.708

The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23

He Who Gets Slapped

7.7

He Who Gets Slapped
1924-12-22

6.5

The Wolf Man
1924-02-17

0

Empty Hands
1924-08-17

Marie Antoinette

6.3

Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26

Idiot's Delight

5.7

Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27

Romeo and Juliet

6.1

Romeo and Juliet
1936-09-03

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

6

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934-09-21

Channing of the Northwest

0

Channing of the Northwest
1922-04-10

0

Married Flirts
1924-10-27

0

A Man's Man
1929-05-25

6.3

The Divorcee
1930-04-19

6.1

A Free Soul
1931-06-02

The Stolen Jools

5.6

The Stolen Jools
1931-04-04

Lady of the Night

6

Lady of the Night
1925-02-23

Smilin' Through

6

Smilin' Through
1932-09-24

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

7.2

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928-01-30

Her Cardboard Lover

5.1

Her Cardboard Lover
1942-07-16

Strangers May Kiss

5.1

Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04

6.3

Private Lives
1931-12-12

Their Own Desire

4.6

Their Own Desire
1929-12-27

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

6

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10

The Trial of Mary Dugan

6

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929-06-08

7.4

Escape
1940-11-01

Strange Interlude

5.7

Strange Interlude
1932-12-30

4

Let Us Be Gay
1930-07-11

4.7

Pretty Ladies
1925-09-06

6

Upstage
1926-11-06

A Lady of Chance

6.5

A Lady of Chance
1928-12-01

5.8

The Waning Sex
1926-09-05

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25

The Devil's Circus

7.2

The Devil's Circus
1926-02-14

0

After Midnight
1927-08-20

6.2

Riptide
1934-03-29

6.4

Girl 27
2007-07-27

We Were Dancing

4.2

We Were Dancing
1942-04-30

Lucretia Lombard

5

Lucretia Lombard
1923-12-08

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

5.444

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929-07-06

6

A Clouded Name
1923-02-19

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

7

Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004-02-03

The Tower of Lies

0

The Tower of Lies
1925-10-10

Sports on the Silver Screen

10

Sports on the Silver Screen
1997-03-16

The Christmas Party

5.4

The Christmas Party
1931-12-17

Broadway After Dark

0

Broadway After Dark
1924-05-19

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

0

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990-07-23

0

The Actress
1928-04-27

6.9

Way Down East
1920-09-03

Going Hollywood

5.5

Going Hollywood
1933-12-22

That's Entertainment!

7.2

That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

7.5

Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996-09-30

We're switching to Hollywood

4.8

We're switching to Hollywood
1931-06-09

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

6.7

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940-10-24

1925 Studio Tour

6.2

1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09

The Restless Sex

0

The Restless Sex
1920-11-12

That's Entertainment! III

6.9

That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01

The Kid Stays in the Picture

6.6

The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002-08-16

The Romance of Celluloid

7

The Romance of Celluloid
1937-08-27

Waking Up the Town

0

Waking Up the Town
1925-03-30

The Latest from Paris

0

The Latest from Paris
1928-02-04

0

The Snob
1924-11-10

A Slave of Fashion

2

A Slave of Fashion
1925-08-23

Judy Garland: By Myself

7.5

Judy Garland: By Myself
2004-02-25

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

6.5

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

5.5

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940-05-29

Hollywood Goes to Town

7

Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07

Complicated Women

6.7

Complicated Women
2003-05-06

From the Ends of the Earth

0

From the Ends of the Earth
1939-05-28

Twenty Years After

6

Twenty Years After
1944-01-01

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

8

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01

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

6.4

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008-03-03

The Film Parade

0

The Film Parade
1933-01-01

Another Romance of Celluloid

5

Another Romance of Celluloid
1938-02-05

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

9.5

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
2019-05-22

Master Will Shakespeare

5.5

Master Will Shakespeare
1936-06-13

0

His Secretary
1925-12-06

0

Blue Water
1924-04-16

The Star Boarder

7

The Star Boarder
1919-05-26

Torchy's Millions

0

Torchy's Millions
1920-10-03

0

The Stealers
1920-10-03

The Man Who Paid

0

The Man Who Paid
1922-03-01

The Taming of the Shrewd

0

The Taming of the Shrewd
1922-04-10

The Bootleggers

0

The Bootleggers
1922-04-01

0

Man and Wife
1923-03-25

The Devil's Partner

0

The Devil's Partner
1923-06-01

0

Pleasure Mad
1923-11-05

0

The Wanters
1923-11-26

The Trail of the Law

0

The Trail of the Law
1924-01-25

Broken Barriers

1

Broken Barriers
1924-08-18

0

Excuse Me
1925-01-19

The End of the World

0

The End of the World
1925-04-01

0

The Demi-Bride
1927-02-19

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

4

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939-04-08

6

The Flapper
1920-05-10

The End of the World

0

The End of the World