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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 10, 1902
Died
June 12, 1983
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As
- Edith Norma Shearer
- Queen Norma
- Norma Sherer
- The First Lady of MGM
Norma Shearer
0.6 Popularity
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
6.1
Various Roles (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
🎬
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
0.0
Self (archive footage)
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Credits
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2008
6.1
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.5
🎬
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1997
10.0
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
1996
7.5
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
1990
0.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.4
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
🎬
Anniversary
as Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
1963
0.0
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
Her Cardboard Lover
as Consuelo Croyden
1942
4.4
We Were Dancing
as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
1942
3.6
Escape
as Countess Ruby von Treck
1940
7.4
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
5.5
The Women
as Mary Haines
1939
7.1
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Norma Shearer
1939
4.0
Idiot's Delight
as Irene Fellara
1939
6.1
Marie Antoinette
as Marie Antoinette
1938
6.5
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
7.0
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
1938
5.0
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
1937
7.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet
1936
6.2
Master Will Shakespeare
as Juliet (uncredited)
1936
5.5
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Elizabeth Barrett
1934
6.0
Riptide
as Lady Mary Rexford
1934
6.2
Going Hollywood
as Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
1933
5.3
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Strange Interlude
as Nina Leeds
1932
5.3
Smilin' Through
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
1932
5.8
The Christmas Party
as Herself
1931
4.9
Private Lives
as Amanda Prynne
1931
6.3
We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
1931
4.8
A Free Soul
as Jan Ashe
1931
6.0
Strangers May Kiss
as Lisbeth Corbin
1931
5.0
The Stolen Jools
as Owner of Stolen Jewels
1931
5.6
Let Us Be Gay
as Kitty Brown
1930
3.6
The Divorcee
as Jerry
1930
6.2
Their Own Desire
as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
1929
4.7
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self / Juliet
1929
5.6
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Fay Cheyney
1929
5.6
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mary Elizabeth Dugan
1929
6.0
A Man's Man
as Norman Shearer (uncredited)
1929
0.0
A Lady of Chance
as Dolly Morgan
1928
6.3
The Actress
as Rose Trelawny
1928
0.0
The Latest from Paris
as Ann Dolan
1928
0.0
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Kathi
1928
7.3
After Midnight
as Mary Miller
1927
7.0
The Demi-Bride
as Criquette
1927
0.0
Upstage
as Dolly Haven
1926
6.0
The Waning Sex
as Nina Duane
1926
5.8
The Devil's Circus
as Mary
1926
7.1
His Secretary
as Ruth Lawrence
1925
0.0
The Tower of Lies
as Glory/Goldie
1925
0.0
Pretty Ladies
as Frances White
1925
4.7
A Slave of Fashion
as Katherine Emerson
1925
2.0
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
1925
6.1
🎬
The End of the World
as Mary Ellen Hope
1925
0.0
The End of the World
as Mary Ellen Hope
1925
0.0
Waking Up the Town
as Mary Ellen Hope
1925
0.0
Lady of the Night
as Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
1925
5.7
Excuse Me
as Marjorie Newton
1925
0.0
He Who Gets Slapped
as Consuelo
1924
7.6
The Snob
as Nancy Claxton
1924
0.0
Married Flirts
as Norma Shearer (uncredited)
1924
0.0
Broken Barriers
as Grace Durland
1924
1.0
Empty Hands
as Claire Endicott
1924
0.0
Broadway After Dark
as Rose Dulane
1924
0.0
Blue Water
as Lillian Denton
1924
0.0
The Wolf Man
as Elizabeth Gordon
1924
6.5
The Trail of the Law
as Jerry Vardon
1924
0.0
Lucretia Lombard
as Mimi Winship
1923
5.0
The Wanters
as Marjorie
1923
0.0
Pleasure Mad
as Elinor Benton
1923
0.0
The Devil's Partner
as Jeanne
1923
0.0
Man and Wife
as Dora Perkins
1923
0.0
A Clouded Name
as Marjorie Dare
1923
6.0
Channing of the Northwest
as Jess Driscoll
1922
0.0
The Taming of the Shrewd
as Rose Del Mar
1922
0.0
The Bootleggers
as Helen Barnes
1922
0.0
The Man Who Paid
as Jeanne Thornton
1922
0.0
The Restless Sex
as Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
1920
0.0
The Stealers
as Julie Martin
1920
0.0
Torchy's Millions
as (uncredited)
1920
0.0
Way Down East
as Barn Dancer (uncredited)
1920
7.0
The Flapper
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1920
6.0
The Star Boarder
as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
1919
7.0