Norma Shearer
Acting
Born August 10, 1902 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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.
Films (94)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
Complicated Women
2003
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996
That's Entertainment! III
1994
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
That's Entertainment!
1974
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
Anniversary
1963
Twenty Years After
1944
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
We Were Dancing
1942
Escape
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
The Women
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Idiot's Delight
1939
Marie Antoinette
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
The Romance of Celluloid
1937
Romeo and Juliet
1936
Master Will Shakespeare
1936
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934
Riptide
1934
Going Hollywood
1933
The Film Parade
1933
Strange Interlude
1932
Smilin' Through
1932
The Christmas Party
1931
Private Lives
1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931
A Free Soul
1931
The Stolen Jools
1931
Strangers May Kiss
1931
Let Us Be Gay
1930
The Divorcee
1930
Their Own Desire
1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929
A Man's Man
1929
A Lady of Chance
1928
The Actress
1928
The Latest from Paris
1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
After Midnight
1927
The Demi-Bride
1927
Upstage
1926
The Waning Sex
1926
The Devil's Circus
1926
His Secretary
1925
The Tower of Lies
1925
Pretty Ladies
1925
A Slave of Fashion
1925
1925 Studio Tour
1925
The End of the World
1925
The End of the World
1925
Waking Up the Town
1925
Lady of the Night
1925
Excuse Me
1925
He Who Gets Slapped
1924
The Snob
1924
Married Flirts
1924
Broken Barriers
1924
Empty Hands
1924
Broadway After Dark
1924
Blue Water
1924
The Wolf Man
1924
The Trail of the Law
1924
Lucretia Lombard
1923
The Wanters
1923
Pleasure Mad
1923
The Devil's Partner
1923
Man and Wife
1923
A Clouded Name
1923
Channing of the Northwest
1922
The Taming of the Shrewd
1922
The Bootleggers
1922
The Man Who Paid
1922
The Restless Sex
1920
Torchy's Millions
1920
The Stealers
1920
Way Down East
1920
The Flapper
1920
The Star Boarder
1919