Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

  • Birthday: 1902-08-10
  • Deathday: 1983-06-12
  • Place of birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Also know as: Edith Norma Shearer

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.

Filmography

The Women

1939

As Mary Haines

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934

As Elizabeth Barrett

Marie Antoinette

1938

As Marie Antoinette

Romeo and Juliet

1936

As Juliet

A Clouded Name

1923

As Marjorie Dare

A Free Soul

1931

As Jan Ashe

The Divorcee

1930

As Jerry Martin

Lady of the Night

1925

As Molly Helmer / Florence Banning

Smilin' Through

1932

As Kathleen / Moonyeen

Her Cardboard Lover

1942

As Consuelo Croyden

Private Lives

1931

As Amanda Prynne

Their Own Desire

1929

As Lucia 'Lally' Marlett

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1929

As Mary Elizabeth Dugan

Strangers May Kiss

1931

As Lisbeth Corbin

Escape

1940

As Countess Ruby von Treck

Strange Interlude

1932

As Nina Leeds

Let Us Be Gay

1930

As Kitty Brown

Upstage

1926

As Dolly Haven

A Lady of Chance

1928

As Dolly Morgan

The Waning Sex

1926

As Nina Duane

The Devil's Circus

1926

As Mary

Riptide

1934

As Lady Mary Rexford

After Midnight

1927

As Mary Miller

We Were Dancing

1942

As Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1929

As Fay Cheyney

The Tower of Lies

1925

As Glory/Goldie

The Actress

1928

As Rose Trelawny

The Stolen Jools

1931

As Owner of Stolen Jewels

The Latest from Paris

1928

As Ann Dolan

A Slave of Fashion

1925

As Katherine Emerson

His Secretary

1925

As Ruth Lawrence

Excuse Me

1925

As Marjorie Newton

The Devil's Partner

1923

As Jeanne

Pleasure Mad

1923

As Elinor Benton

Man and Wife

1923

As Dora Perkins

The Demi-Bride

1927

As Criquette

The Trail of the Law

1924

As Jerry Vardon

Broken Barriers

1924

As Grace Durland

He Who Gets Slapped

1924

As Consuelo

The Wolf Man

1924

As Elizabeth Gordon

Idiot's Delight

1939

As Irene Fellara

The Christmas Party

1931

As Herself

Broadway After Dark

1924

As Rose Dulane

The Kid Stays in the Picture

2002

As Self (archive footage)

Waking Up the Town

1925

As Mary Ellen Hope

The Snob

1924

As Nancy Claxton

Blue Water

1924

As Lillian Denton

The Wanters

1923

As Marjorie

The Man Who Paid

1922

As Jeanne Thornton

Empty Hands

1924

As Claire Endicott

Lucretia Lombard

1923

As Mimi Winship

Torchy's Millions

1920

As (uncredited)

Channing of the Northwest

1922

As Jess Driscoll

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

1929

As Self / Juliet

The Stealers

1920

As Julie Martin

The Taming of the Shrewd

1922

As Rose Del Mar

The Bootleggers

1922

As Helen Barnes

The Star Boarder

1919

As Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)

Pretty Ladies

1925

As Frances White

Master Will Shakespeare

1936

As Juliet (uncredited)

Married Flirts

1924

As Norma Shearer (uncredited)

The Restless Sex

1920

As Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)

A Man's Man

1929

As Norman Shearer (uncredited)

The Film Parade

1933

As (archive footage) (uncredited)

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

1939

As Norma Shearer

The Romance of Celluloid

1937

As Self (archive footage)

Another Romance of Celluloid

1938

As Self (uncredited)

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996

As Self (archive footage)

1925 Studio Tour

1925

As Self

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

As Self (archive footage)

The Flapper

1920

As Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Way Down East

1920

As Barn Dancer (uncredited)

Girl 27

2007

As Self (archive footage)

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

2004

As Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood

1933

As Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

2019

As Self (archive footage)

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

As Self (archive footage)

Sports on the Silver Screen

1997

As Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland: By Myself

2004

As Self (archive footage)

Twenty Years After

1944

As (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

1994

As (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!

1974

As (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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