Norma Shearer

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

123

Movies

Born: August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

Works

98 films

The Women

19397.2

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Brasileiros em Hollywood

1970

Romeo and Juliet

19366.3

Complicated Women

20036.9

Pleasure Mad

19238.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

Idiot's Delight

19396.1

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Marie Antoinette

19386.6

Twenty Years After

19448.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

19295.9

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Riptide

19346.7

The Movie Album

19327.5

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

19406.3

Sports on the Silver Screen

19979.0

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

He Who Gets Slapped

19247.6

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

19346.2

Escape

19407.5

Way Down East

19206.9

The Bootleggers

19227.0

A Free Soul

19316.1

Judy Garland: By Myself

20048.3

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

Their Own Desire

19295.1

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

19967.5

The Divorcee

19306.2

Smilin' Through

19326.0

Hollywood Goes to Town

19387.0

Anniversary

19639.0

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

20086.1

Her Cardboard Lover

19424.9

The End of the World

19258.0

Vito

20116.9

Lady of the Night

19255.8

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

The Christmas Party

19315.4

The Devil's Partner

19239.0

Strange Interlude

19325.6

The Demi-Bride

19278.0

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

19952.0

The Waning Sex

19266.8

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

We’re Switching to Hollywood

19315.2

A Man's Man

19298.0

The Flapper

19206.2

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

20159.0

A Clouded Name

19238.0

The Man Who Paid

192210.0

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Let Us Be Gay

19304.1

Torchy's Millions

19208.0

The Latest from Paris

19288.0

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

19287.2

Strangers May Kiss

19315.2

Broken Barriers

19243.7

Private Lives

19316.5

Going Hollywood

19335.5

The Film Parade

19338.0

Another Romance of Celluloid

19385.3

The Wolf Man

19247.0

We Were Dancing

19424.3

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

19296.0

The Star Boarder

19197.3

The Restless Sex

19207.0

His Secretary

19257.0

Master Will Shakespeare

19365.8

Married Flirts

19249.0

Broadway After Dark

192410.0

Man and Wife

19237.0

The Trail of the Law

19247.0

The Snob

19247.0

Lucretia Lombard

19237.0

A Lady of Chance

19286.5

Excuse Me

19258.0

The Devil's Circus

19266.8

The Wanters

19238.0

Waking Up the Town

19258.0

The Trial of Mary Dugan

19296.4

Empty Hands

19249.0

Upstage

19267.3

The Actress

192810.0

The Tower of Lies

192510.0

The Taming of the Shrewd

1922

The Stealers

192010.0

After Midnight

19278.5

Channing of the Northwest

192210.0

Blue Water

19248.0

The End of the World

1925