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Acting
Birthday:
August 10, 1902
Place of Birth:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Norma Shearer
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Girl 27 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Judy Garland: By Myself | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) |
| 1990 | You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1983 | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) |
| 1944 | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) |
| 1942 | Her Cardboard Lover | Consuelo Croyden |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska |
| 1940 | Escape | Countess Ruby von Treck |
| 1940 | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self |
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self |
| 1940 | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self |
| 1939 | The Women | Mary Haines |
| 1939 | Idiot's Delight | Irene Fellara |
| 1939 | From the Ends of the Earth | Self |
| 1939 | Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 | Norma Shearer |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette |
| 1938 | Hollywood Goes to Town | Self |
| 1938 | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) |
| 1936 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet |
| 1936 | Master Will Shakespeare | Juliet (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Elizabeth Barrett |
| 1934 | Riptide | Lady Mary Rexford |
| 1933 | Going Hollywood | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) |
| 1933 | The Film Parade | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Smilin' Through | Kathleen / Moonyeen |
| 1932 | Strange Interlude | Nina Leeds |
| 1931 | A Free Soul | Jan Ashe |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools | Owner of Stolen Jewels |
| 1931 | Strangers May Kiss | Lisbeth Corbin |
| 1931 | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne |
| 1931 | The Christmas Party | Herself |
| 1931 | We're switching to Hollywood | Self |
| 1930 | The Divorcee | Jerry |
| 1930 | Let Us Be Gay | Kitty Brown |
| 1929 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self / Juliet |
| 1929 | A Man's Man | Norman Shearer (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Their Own Desire | Lucia 'Lally' Marlett |
| 1929 | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mary Elizabeth Dugan |
| 1929 | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Fay Cheyney |
| 1928 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Kathi |
| 1928 | A Lady of Chance | Dolly Morgan |
| 1928 | The Actress | Rose Trelawny |
| 1928 | The Latest from Paris | Ann Dolan |
| 1927 | After Midnight | Mary Miller |
| 1927 | The Demi-Bride | Criquette |
| 1926 | Upstage | Dolly Haven |
| 1926 | The Waning Sex | Nina Duane |
| 1926 | The Devil's Circus | Mary |
| 1925 | Lady of the Night | Molly Helmer / Florence Banning |
| 1925 | Pretty Ladies | Frances White |
| 1925 | The Tower of Lies | Glory/Goldie |
| 1925 | 1925 Studio Tour | Self |
| 1925 | Waking Up the Town | Mary Ellen Hope |
| 1925 | A Slave of Fashion | Katherine Emerson |
| 1925 | His Secretary | Ruth Lawrence |
| 1925 | Excuse Me | Marjorie Newton |
| 1925 | The End of the World | Mary Ellen Hope |
| 1925 | The End of the World | Mary Ellen Hope |
| 1924 | The Wolf Man | Elizabeth Gordon |
| 1924 | He Who Gets Slapped | Consuelo |
| 1924 | Empty Hands | Claire Endicott |
| 1924 | Married Flirts | Norma Shearer (uncredited) |
| 1924 | Broadway After Dark | Rose Dulane |
| 1924 | The Snob | Nancy Claxton |
| 1924 | Blue Water | Lillian Denton |
| 1924 | The Trail of the Law | Jerry Vardon |
| 1924 | Broken Barriers | Grace Durland |
| 1923 | Lucretia Lombard | Mimi Winship |
| 1923 | A Clouded Name | Marjorie Dare |
| 1923 | The Devil's Partner | Jeanne |
| 1923 | Man and Wife | Dora Perkins |
| 1923 | The Wanters | Marjorie |
| 1923 | Pleasure Mad | Elinor Benton |
| 1922 | Channing of the Northwest | Jess Driscoll |
| 1922 | The Man Who Paid | Jeanne Thornton |
| 1922 | The Taming of the Shrewd | Rose Del Mar |
| 1922 | The Bootleggers | Helen Barnes |
| 1920 | Way Down East | Barn Dancer (uncredited) |
| 1920 | The Restless Sex | Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited) |
| 1920 | Torchy's Millions | (uncredited) |
| 1920 | The Stealers | Julie Martin |
| 1920 | The Flapper | Schoolgirl (uncredited) |
| 1919 | The Star Boarder | Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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