Norma Shearer
Acting
Born: August 10, 1902 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died: June 12, 1983 (aged 80)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Women
1939
Way Down East
1920
He Who Gets Slapped
1924
That's Entertainment!
1974
The Divorcee
1930
A Free Soul
1931
Romeo and Juliet
1936
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Marie Antoinette
1938
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
The Stolen Jools
1931
Photos (12)
Movies (71)
Riptide
Lady Mary Rexford
The Women
Mary Haines
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Idiot's Delight
Irene Fellara
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett
He Who Gets Slapped
Consuelo
The Bootleggers
Helen Barnes
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
The Stolen Jools
Owner of Stolen Jewels
Escape
Countess Ruby von Treck
The Movie Album
(archive footage)
Way Down East
Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Smilin' Through
Kathleen / Moonyeen
A Free Soul
Jan Ashe
Her Cardboard Lover
Consuelo Croyden
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
A Slave of Fashion
Katherine Emerson
The Restless Sex
Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
The Divorcee
Jerry
A Man's Man
Norman Shearer (uncredited)
Strangers May Kiss
Lisbeth Corbin
Let Us Be Gay
Kitty Brown
Private Lives
Amanda Prynne
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Kathi
Their Own Desire
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
The Flapper
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
The Demi-Bride
Criquette
The Wanters
Marjorie
Lady of the Night
Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
The Wolf Man
Elizabeth Gordon
Pretty Ladies
Frances White
The Tower of Lies
Glory/Goldie
The End of the World
Mary Ellen Hope
Broadway After Dark
Rose Dulane
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Elizabeth Dugan
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Fay Cheyney
Excuse Me
Marjorie Newton
The Waning Sex
Nina Duane
The Devil's Partner
Jeanne
Pleasure Mad
Elinor Benton
The Devil's Circus
Mary
The Trail of the Law
Jerry Vardon
The Man Who Paid
Jeanne Thornton
Married Flirts
Norma Shearer (uncredited)
We Were Dancing
Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Man and Wife
Dora Perkins
Blue Water
Lillian Denton
Strange Interlude
Nina Leeds
Lucretia Lombard
Mimi Winship
The Actress
Rose Trelawny
The Latest from Paris
Ann Dolan
The Snob
Nancy Claxton
A Clouded Name
Marjorie Dare
A Lady of Chance
Dolly Morgan
His Secretary
Ruth Lawrence
Waking Up the Town
Mary Ellen Hope
Empty Hands
Claire Endicott
Torchy's Millions
(uncredited)
The Star Boarder
Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
After Midnight
Mary Miller
The Stealers
Julie Martin
Broken Barriers
Grace Durland
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Norma Shearer
Upstage
Dolly Haven
Master Will Shakespeare
Juliet (uncredited)
The Taming of the Shrewd
Rose Del Mar
Channing of the Northwest
Jess Driscoll
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (23)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self / Juliet
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
Vito
Self (archive)
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage)
1925 Studio Tour
Self
The Romance of Celluloid
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Self (archive footage)
The Christmas Party
Herself
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Self