Norma Shearer
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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
Credits
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Juliet
The Women (1939)
as Mary Haines
Riptide (1934)
as Lady Mary Rexford
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
as Elizabeth Barrett
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Marie Antoinette
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Slave of Fashion (1925)
as Katherine Emerson
Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self (archive footage)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
as Consuelo
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
Anniversary (1963)
as Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Bootleggers (1922)
as Helen Barnes
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
as Self / Juliet
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
as Kathi
Lady of the Night (1925)
as Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
The Man Who Paid (1922)
as Jeanne Thornton
Way Down East (1920)
as Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Pleasure Mad (1923)
as Elinor Benton
The Devil's Partner (1923)
as Jeanne
Man and Wife (1923)
as Dora Perkins
The End of the World (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
as Kitty Brown
Smilin' Through (1932)
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
The Devil's Circus (1926)
as Mary
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Trail of the Law (1924)
as Jerry Vardon
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
A Man's Man (1929)
as Norman Shearer (uncredited)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Irene Fellara
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
Escape (1940)
as Countess Ruby von Treck
A Free Soul (1931)
as Jan Ashe
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
as Consuelo Croyden
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
The Star Boarder (1919)
as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
Vito (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)
as Norma Shearer
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
as Mary Elizabeth Dugan
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Wolf Man (1924)
as Elizabeth Gordon
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
The Demi-Bride (1927)
as Criquette
The Latest from Paris (1928)
as Ann Dolan
The Restless Sex (1920)
as Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway After Dark (1924)
as Rose Dulane
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
as Fay Cheyney
The Film Parade (1933)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Waking Up the Town (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
Going Hollywood (1933)
as Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
The Taming of the Shrewd (1922)
as Rose Del Mar
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Owner of Stolen Jewels
Their Own Desire (1929)
as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
1925 Studio Tour (1925)
as Self
Excuse Me (1925)
as Marjorie Newton
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
as Lisbeth Corbin
The Christmas Party (1931)
as Herself
A Lady of Chance (1928)
as Dolly Morgan
The Divorcee (1930)
as Jerry
Upstage (1926)
as Dolly Haven
We Were Dancing (1942)
as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931)
as Self
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
as Mimi Winship
Channing of the Northwest (1922)
as Jess Driscoll
A Clouded Name (1923)
as Marjorie Dare
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
as Self (uncredited)
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Nina Leeds
The Tower of Lies (1925)
as Glory/Goldie
Pretty Ladies (1925)
as Frances White
Torchy's Millions (1920)
as (uncredited)
Empty Hands (1924)
as Claire Endicott
The Waning Sex (1926)
as Nina Duane
Married Flirts (1924)
as Norma Shearer (uncredited)
Broken Barriers (1924)
as Grace Durland
The Stealers (1920)
as Julie Martin
The Wanters (1923)
as Marjorie
The Snob (1924)
as Nancy Claxton
Private Lives (1931)
as Amanda Prynne
After Midnight (1927)
as Mary Miller
The End of the World (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
The Flapper (1920)
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Blue Water (1924)
as Lillian Denton
Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
as Juliet (uncredited)
His Secretary (1925)
as Ruth Lawrence
The Actress (1928)
as Rose Trelawny