Norma Shearer
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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.
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Credits
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Mary Haines
Pleasure Mad (1923)
as Elinor Benton
Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Marie Antoinette
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Anniversary (1963)
as Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Judy Garland: By Myself (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Juliet
The End of the World (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
The Wolf Man (1924)
as Elizabeth Gordon
The Bootleggers (1922)
as Helen Barnes
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
as Consuelo
The Devil's Partner (1923)
as Jeanne
Vito (2011)
as Self (archive)
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Owner of Stolen Jewels
Lady of the Night (1925)
as Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
The Demi-Bride (1927)
as Criquette
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
as Elizabeth Barrett
Escape (1940)
as Countess Ruby von Treck
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
as Mary Elizabeth Dugan
Way Down East (1920)
as Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Irene Fellara
Smilin' Through (1932)
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
as Self / Juliet
Torchy's Millions (1920)
as (uncredited)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Divorcee (1930)
as Jerry
The Man Who Paid (1922)
as Jeanne Thornton
A Clouded Name (1923)
as Marjorie Dare
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Riptide (1934)
as Lady Mary Rexford
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
A Man's Man (1929)
as Norman Shearer (uncredited)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
as Kathi
Man and Wife (1923)
as Dora Perkins
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
as Consuelo Croyden
The Star Boarder (1919)
as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
Going Hollywood (1933)
as Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
A Free Soul (1931)
as Jan Ashe
The Waning Sex (1926)
as Nina Duane
Private Lives (1931)
as Amanda Prynne
The Christmas Party (1931)
as Herself
A Slave of Fashion (1925)
as Katherine Emerson
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
as Lisbeth Corbin
Their Own Desire (1929)
as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Empty Hands (1924)
as Claire Endicott
The Flapper (1920)
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Nina Leeds
We Were Dancing (1942)
as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
1925 Studio Tour (1925)
as Self
Broken Barriers (1924)
as Grace Durland
Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Pretty Ladies (1925)
as Frances White
The Actress (1928)
as Rose Trelawny
The Tower of Lies (1925)
as Glory/Goldie
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
as Self (uncredited)
The Film Parade (1933)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
as Juliet (uncredited)
We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931)
as Self
Waking Up the Town (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
The Wanters (1923)
as Marjorie
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)
as Norma Shearer
A Lady of Chance (1928)
as Dolly Morgan
Upstage (1926)
as Dolly Haven
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
as Fay Cheyney
The Devil's Circus (1926)
as Mary
The Latest from Paris (1928)
as Ann Dolan
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
as Kitty Brown
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
as Mimi Winship
Broadway After Dark (1924)
as Rose Dulane
The Restless Sex (1920)
as Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
Married Flirts (1924)
as Norma Shearer (uncredited)
The Snob (1924)
as Nancy Claxton
Channing of the Northwest (1922)
as Jess Driscoll
After Midnight (1927)
as Mary Miller
His Secretary (1925)
as Ruth Lawrence
The Trail of the Law (1924)
as Jerry Vardon
The End of the World (1925)
as Mary Ellen Hope
Excuse Me (1925)
as Marjorie Newton
The Stealers (1920)
as Julie Martin
The Taming of the Shrewd (1922)
as Rose Del Mar
Blue Water (1924)
as Lillian Denton