Norma Shearer

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	Acting
Most Rating	3.267
Birthday	1902-08-10
Place of Birth	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As	Edith Norma Shearer, The First Lady Of MGM, Queen Norma, Norma Sherer,

The Women

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

He Who Gets Slapped

The Wolf Man

Empty Hands

Marie Antoinette

Idiot's Delight

Romeo and Juliet

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Channing of the Northwest

Married Flirts

A Man's Man

The Divorcee

A Free Soul

The Stolen Jools

Lady of the Night

Smilin' Through

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Her Cardboard Lover

Strangers May Kiss

Private Lives

Their Own Desire

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Escape

Strange Interlude

Let Us Be Gay

Pretty Ladies

Upstage

A Lady of Chance

The Waning Sex

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Devil's Circus

After Midnight

Riptide

Girl 27

We Were Dancing

Lucretia Lombard

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

A Clouded Name

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

The Tower of Lies

Sports on the Silver Screen

The Christmas Party

Broadway After Dark

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

The Actress

Way Down East

Going Hollywood

That's Entertainment!

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

We're switching to Hollywood

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1925 Studio Tour

The Restless Sex

That's Entertainment! III

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Romance of Celluloid

Waking Up the Town

The Latest from Paris

The Snob

A Slave of Fashion

Judy Garland: By Myself

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood Goes to Town

Complicated Women

From the Ends of the Earth

Twenty Years After

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

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

The Film Parade

Another Romance of Celluloid

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

Master Will Shakespeare

His Secretary

Blue Water

The Star Boarder

Torchy's Millions

The Stealers