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