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Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Acting

Born August 10, 1902, Montreal, 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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (26)
  • 2015Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn — Self (archive footage)
  • 2011Vito — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Checking Out: Grand Hotel — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Judy Garland: By Myself — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)
  • 1997Sports on the Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)
  • 1996Joan Crawford: Always the Star — Self (archive footage)
  • 1995Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell — Self (archive footage)
  • 1990You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story — Self (archive footage)
  • 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)
  • 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
  • 1970Brasileiros em Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 1963Anniversary — Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
  • 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self
  • 1940Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self
  • 1940Hollywood: Style Center of the World — Self
  • 1939From the Ends of the Earth — Self
  • 1938Another Romance of Celluloid — Self (uncredited)
  • 1938Hollywood Goes to Town — Self
  • 1937The Romance of Celluloid — Self (archive footage)
  • 1933Going Hollywood — Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
  • 1931The Christmas Party — Herself
  • 1931We’re Switching to Hollywood — Self
  • 1929The Hollywood Revue of 1929 — Self / Juliet
  • 19251925 Studio Tour — Self
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