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