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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.
Movie | Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-22 |
Movie | Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Herself (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 |
Movie | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
Movie | Girl 27 | Self (archive footage) | 2007-07-27 |
Movie | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 |
Movie | Judy Garland: By Myself | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-25 |
Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
Movie | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self (archive footage) | 2002-08-16 |
Movie | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) | 1997-03-16 |
Movie | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) | 1996-09-30 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-06-21 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963-07-01 | |
Movie | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944-01-01 |
Movie | We Were Dancing | Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska | 1942-04-30 |
Movie | Her Cardboard Lover | Consuelo Croyden | 1942-07-16 |
Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
Movie | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 1940-07-31 |
Movie | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
Movie | Escape | Countess Ruby von Treck | 1940-11-01 |
Movie | Idiot's Delight | Irene Fellara | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939-05-28 |
Movie | The Women | Mary Haines | 1939-09-01 |
Movie | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette | 1938-08-26 |
Movie | Hollywood Goes to Town | Self | 1938-07-07 |
Movie | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) | 1937-08-27 |
Movie | Master Will Shakespeare | Juliet (uncredited) | 1936-06-13 |
Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | 1936-09-03 |
Movie | Riptide | Lady Mary Rexford | 1934-03-29 |
Movie | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Elizabeth Barrett | 1934-09-21 |
Movie | The Film Parade | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-01-01 |
Movie | Going Hollywood | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) | 1933-12-22 |
Movie | Smilin' Through | Kathleen / Moonyeen | 1932-09-24 |
Movie | Strange Interlude | Nina Leeds | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | A Free Soul | Jan Ashe | 1931-06-02 |
Movie | Strangers May Kiss | Lisbeth Corbin | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | The Stolen Jools | Owner of Stolen Jewels | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | We're switching to Hollywood | Self | 1931-06-09 |
Movie | The Christmas Party | Herself | 1931-12-17 |
Movie | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | 1931-12-12 |
Movie | The Divorcee | Jerry | 1930-04-19 |
Movie | Let Us Be Gay | Kitty Brown | 1930-07-11 |
Movie | A Man's Man | Norman Shearer (uncredited) | 1929-05-25 |
Movie | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mary Elizabeth Dugan | 1929-06-08 |
Movie | Their Own Desire | Lucia 'Lally' Marlett | 1929-12-27 |
Movie | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Fay Cheyney | 1929-07-06 |
Movie | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self / Juliet | 1929-11-23 |
Movie | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Kathi | 1928-01-30 |
Movie | The Latest from Paris | Ann Dolan | 1928-02-04 |
Movie | A Lady of Chance | Dolly Morgan | 1928-12-01 |
Movie | The Actress | Rose Trelawny | 1928-04-27 |
Movie | After Midnight | Mary Miller | 1927-08-20 |
Movie | The Waning Sex | Nina Duane | 1926-09-05 |
Movie | The Devil's Circus | Mary | 1926-02-14 |
Movie | Upstage | Dolly Haven | 1926-11-06 |
Movie | The End of the World | 1925-04-01 | |
Movie | Waking Up the Town | Mary Ellen Hope | 1925-03-30 |
Movie | Lady of the Night | Molly Helmer / Florence Banning | 1925-02-23 |
Movie | Excuse Me | Marjorie Newton | 1925-01-19 |
Movie | A Slave of Fashion | Katherine Emerson | 1925-08-23 |
Movie | 1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925-04-09 |
Movie | The Tower of Lies | Glory/Goldie | 1925-10-10 |
Movie | His Secretary | Ruth Lawrence | 1925-12-06 |
Movie | Pretty Ladies | Frances White | 1925-09-06 |
Movie | Empty Hands | Claire Endicott | 1924-08-17 |
Movie | Broadway After Dark | Rose Dulane | 1924-05-19 |
Movie | Broken Barriers | Grace Durland | 1924-08-18 |
Movie | The Wolf Man | Elizabeth Gordon | 1924-02-17 |
Movie | Married Flirts | Norma Shearer (uncredited) | 1924-10-27 |
Movie | He Who Gets Slapped | Consuelo | 1924-12-22 |
Movie | The Snob | Nancy Claxton | 1924-11-10 |
Movie | A Clouded Name | Marjorie Dare | 1923-02-19 |
Movie | Pleasure Mad | Elinor Benton | 1923-11-05 |
Movie | Man and Wife | Dora Perkins | 1923-03-25 |
Movie | The Wanters | Marjorie | 1923-11-26 |
Movie | Lucretia Lombard | Mimi Winship | 1923-12-08 |
Movie | Way Down East | Barn Dancer (uncredited) | 1920-09-03 |
Movie | The Flapper | Schoolgirl (uncredited) | 1920-05-10 |
Movie | The Stealers | Julie Martin | 1920-10-03 |
Movie | The Restless Sex | Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited) | 1920-11-12 |
Movie | The Star Boarder | Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited) | 1919-05-26 |