Norma Shearer

Known for ActingBorn 1902-08-10Died 1983-06-12Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Actress

The Tower of Lies

Broadway After Dark

Channing of the Northwest

The Man Who Paid

The Stealers

Sports on the Silver Screen

Anniversary

MGM Parade

Judy Garland: By Myself

The Movie Album

Empty Hands

Married Flirts

The Devil's Partner

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

After Midnight

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

Twenty Years After

The Film Parade

A Man's Man

The Latest from Paris

The Demi-Bride

Waking Up the Town

Excuse Me

The End of the World

Blue Water

A Clouded Name

Pleasure Mad

The Wanters

Torchy's Millions

That's Entertainment!

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Vito

Complicated Women

That's Entertainment! III

Escape

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

He Who Gets Slapped

Upstage

The Women

The Star Boarder

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Hollywood Goes to Town

The Romance of Celluloid

The Devil's Circus

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

His Secretary