Norma Shearer

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1902-08-10
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As: Edith Norma Shearer, The First Lady Of MGM, Queen Norma, Norma Sherer

Movies List of Norma Shearer

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The Women

1939 Movie
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The Wolf Man

1924 Movie
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He Who Gets Slapped

1924 Movie
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Empty Hands

1924 Movie
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Marie Antoinette

1938 Movie
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Idiot's Delight

1939 Movie
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Romeo and Juliet

1936 Movie
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Married Flirts

1924 Movie
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A Man's Man

1929 Movie
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The Divorcee

1930 Movie
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A Free Soul

1931 Movie
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The Stolen Jools

1931 Movie
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Lady of the Night

1925 Movie
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Smilin' Through

1932 Movie
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Her Cardboard Lover

1942 Movie
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Strangers May Kiss

1931 Movie
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Private Lives

1931 Movie
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Their Own Desire

1929 Movie
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Escape

1940 Movie
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Strange Interlude

1932 Movie
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Let Us Be Gay

1930 Movie
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Pretty Ladies

1925 Movie
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Upstage

1926 Movie
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A Lady of Chance

1928 Movie
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The Waning Sex

1926 Movie
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The Devil's Circus

1926 Movie
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After Midnight

1927 Movie
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Riptide

1934 Movie
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Girl 27

2007 Movie
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We Were Dancing

1942 Movie
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Lucretia Lombard

1923 Movie
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A Clouded Name

1923 Movie
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The Tower of Lies

1925 Movie
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The Christmas Party

1931 Movie
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Broadway After Dark

1924 Movie
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The Actress

1928 Movie
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Way Down East

1920 Movie
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Going Hollywood

1933 Movie
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That's Entertainment!

1974 Movie
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1925 Studio Tour

1925 Movie
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The Restless Sex

1920 Movie
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Waking Up the Town

1925 Movie
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The Latest from Paris

1928 Movie
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The Snob

1924 Movie
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A Slave of Fashion

1925 Movie
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Complicated Women

2003 Movie
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Twenty Years After

1944 Movie
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The Film Parade

1933 Movie
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His Secretary

1925 Movie
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Blue Water

1924 Movie
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The Man Who Paid

1922 Movie
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The Star Boarder

1919 Movie
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The Devil's Partner

1923 Movie
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The Bootleggers

1922 Movie
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Torchy's Millions

1920 Movie
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The Stealers

1920 Movie
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Man and Wife

1923 Movie
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The Trail of the Law

1924 Movie
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Excuse Me

1925 Movie
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Broken Barriers

1924 Movie
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The Wanters

1923 Movie
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The End of the World

1925 Movie
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Pleasure Mad

1923 Movie
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The Demi-Bride

1927 Movie
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The Flapper

1920 Movie