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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• 1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year
• 2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — Various Roles (archive footage)
• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1974That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• MGM Parade
• 1944Twenty Years After — (archive footage)
• 1942Her Cardboard Lover — Consuelo Croyden
• 1942We Were Dancing — Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
• 1940Escape — Countess Ruby von Treck
• 1939Idiot's Delight — Irene Fellara
• 1939Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 — Norma Shearer
• 1939The Women — Mary Haines
• 1938Marie Antoinette — Marie Antoinette
• 1936Master Will Shakespeare — Juliet (uncredited)
• 1936Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
• 1934Riptide — Lady Mary Rexford
• 1934The Barretts of Wimpole Street — Elizabeth Barrett
• 1933The Film Parade — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1932Smilin' Through — Kathleen / Moonyeen
• 1932Strange Interlude — Nina Leeds
• 1932The Movie Album — (archive footage)
• 1931A Free Soul — Jan Ashe
• 1931Private Lives — Amanda Prynne
• 1931Strangers May Kiss — Lisbeth Corbin
• 1931The Stolen Jools — Owner of Stolen Jewels
• 1930Let Us Be Gay — Kitty Brown
• 1930The Divorcee — Jerry
• 1929A Man's Man — Norman Shearer (uncredited)
• 1929The Last of Mrs. Cheyney — Fay Cheyney
• 1929The Trial of Mary Dugan — Mary Elizabeth Dugan
• 1929Their Own Desire — Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
• 1928A Lady of Chance — Dolly Morgan
• 1928The Actress — Rose Trelawny
• 1928The Latest from Paris — Ann Dolan
• 1928The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg — Kathi
• 1927After Midnight — Mary Miller
• 1927The Demi-Bride — Criquette
• 1926The Devil's Circus — Mary
• 1926The Waning Sex — Nina Duane
• 1926Upstage — Dolly Haven
• 1925A Slave of Fashion — Katherine Emerson
• 1925Excuse Me — Marjorie Newton
• 1925His Secretary — Ruth Lawrence
• 1925Lady of the Night — Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
• 1925Pretty Ladies — Frances White
• 1925The End of the World — Mary Ellen Hope
• 1925The End of the World — Mary Ellen Hope
• 1925The Tower of Lies — Glory/Goldie
• 1925Waking Up the Town — Mary Ellen Hope
• 1924Blue Water — Lillian Denton
• 1924Broadway After Dark — Rose Dulane
• 1924Broken Barriers — Grace Durland
• 1924Empty Hands — Claire Endicott
• 1924He Who Gets Slapped — Consuelo
• 1924Married Flirts — Norma Shearer (uncredited)
• 1924The Snob — Nancy Claxton
• 1924The Trail of the Law — Jerry Vardon
• 1924The Wolf Man — Elizabeth Gordon
• 1923A Clouded Name — Marjorie Dare
• 1923Lucretia Lombard — Mimi Winship
• 1923Man and Wife — Dora Perkins
• 1923Pleasure Mad — Elinor Benton
• 1923The Devil's Partner — Jeanne
• 1923The Wanters — Marjorie
• 1922Channing of the Northwest — Jess Driscoll
• 1922The Bootleggers — Helen Barnes
• 1922The Man Who Paid — Jeanne Thornton
• 1922The Taming of the Shrewd — Rose Del Mar
• 1920The Flapper — Schoolgirl (uncredited)
• 1920The Restless Sex — Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
• 1920The Stealers — Julie Martin
• 1920Torchy's Millions — (uncredited)
• 1920Way Down East — Barn Dancer (uncredited)
• 1919The Star Boarder — Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (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