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person_profile-Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Norma Shearer

Date of Birth:

Aug 10, 1902

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Jun 12, 1983

Biography of

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.

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Norma Shearer

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Filmography of

Norma Shearer

Found 76 Movies in total

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

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

Various Roles (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

Girl 27

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2007

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1988

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1974

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1972

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

Her Cardboard Lover

Consuelo Croyden ( Actor )

... 1942

We Were Dancing

Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska ( Actor )

... 1942

Escape

Countess Ruby von Treck ( Actor )

... 1940

The Women

Mary Haines ( Actor )

... 1939

Idiot's Delight

Irene Fellara ( Actor )

... 1939

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette ( Actor )

... 1938

Romeo and Juliet

Juliet ( Actor )

... 1936

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett ( Actor )

... 1934

Riptide

Lady Mary Rexford ( Actor )

... 1934

Going Hollywood

Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1933

The Film Parade

(archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Strange Interlude

Nina Leeds ( Actor )

... 1932

Smilin' Through

Kathleen / Moonyeen ( Actor )

... 1932

Private Lives

Amanda Prynne ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1931

A Free Soul

Jan Ashe ( Actor )

... 1931

Strangers May Kiss

Lisbeth Corbin ( Actor )

... 1931

Let Us Be Gay

Kitty Brown ( Actor )

... 1930

The Divorcee

Jerry Martin ( Actor )

... 1930

Their Own Desire

Lucia 'Lally' Marlett ( Actor )

... 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Self / Juliet ( Actor )

... 1929

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Fay Cheyney ( Actor )

... 1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Mary Elizabeth Dugan ( Actor )

... 1929

A Man's Man

Norman Shearer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

A Lady of Chance

Dolly Morgan ( Actor )

... 1928

The Actress

Rose Trelawny ( Actor )

... 1928

The Latest from Paris

Ann Dolan ( Actor )

... 1928

After Midnight

Mary Miller ( Actor )

... 1927

The Demi-Bride

Criquette ( Actor )

... 1927

Upstage

Dolly Haven ( Actor )

... 1926

The Waning Sex

Nina Duane ( Actor )

... 1926

The Devil's Circus

Mary ( Actor )

... 1926

His Secretary

Ruth Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1925

The Tower of Lies

Glory/Goldie ( Actor )

... 1925

Pretty Ladies

Frances White ( Actor )

... 1925

A Slave of Fashion

Katherine Emerson ( Actor )

... 1925

... 1925

Waking Up the Town

Mary Ellen Hope ( Actor )

... 1925

Lady of the Night

Molly Helmer / Florence Banning ( Actor )

... 1925

Excuse Me

Marjorie Newton ( Actor )

... 1925

He Who Gets Slapped

Consuelo ( Actor )

... 1924

The Snob

Nancy Claxton ( Actor )

... 1924

Married Flirts

Norma Shearer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1924

Broken Barriers

Grace Durland ( Actor )

... 1924

Empty Hands

Claire Endicott ( Actor )

... 1924

Broadway After Dark

Rose Dulane ( Actor )

... 1924

Blue Water

Lillian Denton ( Actor )

... 1924

The Wolf Man

Elizabeth Gordon ( Actor )

... 1924

The Trail of the Law

Jerry Vardon ( Actor )

... 1924

Lucretia Lombard

Mimi Winship ( Actor )

... 1923

The Wanters

Marjorie ( Actor )

... 1923

Pleasure Mad

Elinor Benton ( Actor )

... 1923

The Devil's Partner

Jeanne ( Actor )

... 1923

Man and Wife

Dora Perkins ( Actor )

... 1923

A Clouded Name

Marjorie Dare ( Actor )

... 1923

Channing of the Northwest

Jess Driscoll ( Actor )

... 1922

The Bootleggers

Helen Barnes ( Actor )

... 1922

The Man Who Paid

Jeanne Thornton ( Actor )

... 1922

The Restless Sex

Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1920

The Stealers

Julie Martin ( Actor )

... 1920

Way Down East

Barn Dancer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1920

The Flapper

Schoolgirl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1920