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Norma Shearer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

August 9, 1902 (122 years old)

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

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The Women

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The Hollywood Revue of 1929

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The Wolf Man

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He Who Gets Slapped

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Empty Hands

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Marie Antoinette

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Idiot's Delight

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Romeo and Juliet

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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Channing of the Northwest

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Married Flirts

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A Man's Man

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The Divorcee

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A Free Soul

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The Stolen Jools

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Lady of the Night

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Smilin' Through

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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

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Her Cardboard Lover

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Strangers May Kiss

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Private Lives

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Their Own Desire

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

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The Trial of Mary Dugan

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Escape

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Strange Interlude

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Let Us Be Gay

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Pretty Ladies

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Upstage

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A Lady of Chance

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The Waning Sex

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

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The Devil's Circus

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Riptide

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After Midnight

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Girl 27

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We Were Dancing

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Lucretia Lombard

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

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A Clouded Name

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Checking Out: Grand Hotel

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The Tower of Lies

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Sports on the Silver Screen

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The Christmas Party

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Broadway After Dark

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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

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The Actress

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Way Down East

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Going Hollywood

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That's Entertainment!

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Joan Crawford: Always the Star

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We're switching to Hollywood

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

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1925 Studio Tour

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The Restless Sex

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That's Entertainment! III

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

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The Romance of Celluloid

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Waking Up the Town

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The Latest from Paris

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The Snob

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A Slave of Fashion

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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

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Judy Garland: By Myself

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

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Hollywood Goes to Town

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Complicated Women

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Twenty Years After

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From the Ends of the Earth

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

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

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The Film Parade

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Another Romance of Celluloid

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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

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Master Will Shakespeare

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His Secretary

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Blue Water

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Excuse Me

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The Wanters

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The Trail of the Law

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The Bootleggers

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The Taming of the Shrewd

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The Devil's Partner

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Broken Barriers

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The Stealers

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Man and Wife

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Pleasure Mad

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Torchy's Millions

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The Man Who Paid

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The Star Boarder

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The Demi-Bride

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The End of the World

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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

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The Flapper

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The End of the World

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