Norma Shearer
Age: 80 | From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Person Details
Birthday: 1902-08-10 07:00:47
Death: 1983-06-12 07:00:47
Aliases: Edith Norma Shearer , The First Lady Of MGM , Queen Norma , Norma Sherer
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 68
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Way Down East
(1920) Barn Dancer (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
(1974) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Divorcee
(1930) Jerry Martin
The Kid Stays in the Picture
(2002) Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)
He Who Gets Slapped
(1924) Consuelo
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(1988) (archive footage)
Escape
(1940) Countess Ruby von TreckActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Various Roles (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1990 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | (archive footage) | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1974 | (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1972 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1963 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1944 | (archive footage) | |
| 1942 | Consuelo Croyden | |
| Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska | ||
| 1940 | Countess Ruby von Treck | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1939 | Mary Haines | |
| Self | ||
| Norma Shearer | ||
| Irene Fellara | ||
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | |
| Self | ||
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| 1937 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1936 | Juliet | |
| Juliet (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | Elizabeth Barrett | |
| Lady Mary Rexford | ||
| 1933 | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) | |
| (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 1932 | Nina Leeds | |
| Kathleen / Moonyeen | ||
| 1931 | Herself | |
| Amanda Prynne | ||
| Self | ||
| Jan Ashe | ||
| Lisbeth Corbin | ||
| Owner of Stolen Jewels | ||
| 1930 | Kitty Brown | |
| Jerry Martin | ||
| 1929 | Lucia 'Lally' Marlett | |
| Self / Juliet | ||
| Fay Cheyney | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Dugan | ||
| Norman Shearer (uncredited) | ||
| 1928 | Dolly Morgan | |
| Rose Trelawny | ||
| Ann Dolan | ||
| Kathi | ||
| 1927 | Mary Miller | |
| Criquette | ||
| 1926 | Dolly Haven | |
| Nina Duane | ||
| Mary | ||
| 1925 | Ruth Lawrence | |
| Glory/Goldie | ||
| Frances White | ||
| Katherine Emerson | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mary Ellen Hope | ||
| Molly Helmer / Florence Banning | ||
| Marjorie Newton | ||
| 1924 | Consuelo | |
| Nancy Claxton | ||
| Norma Shearer (uncredited) | ||
| Grace Durland | ||
| Claire Endicott | ||
| Rose Dulane | ||
| Lillian Denton | ||
| Elizabeth Gordon | ||
| Jerry Vardon | ||
| 1923 | Mimi Winship | |
| Marjorie | ||
| Elinor Benton | ||
| Jeanne | ||
| Dora Perkins | ||
| Marjorie Dare | ||
| 1922 | Rose Del Mar | |
| Jess Driscoll | ||
| Helen Barnes | ||
| Jeanne Thornton | ||
| 1920 | Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited) | |
| (uncredited) | ||
| Julie Martin | ||
| Barn Dancer (uncredited) | ||
| Schoolgirl (uncredited) | ||
| 1919 | Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
