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