Norma Shearer
Acting • Born 1902-08-10 – Died 1983-06-12
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.
Filmography
95 credits
The Women
Movie • 1939
Mary Haines
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie • 1929
Self / Juliet
The Wolf Man
Movie • 1924
Elizabeth Gordon
He Who Gets Slapped
Movie • 1924
Consuelo
Empty Hands
Movie • 1924
Claire Endicott
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 1938
Marie Antoinette
Idiot's Delight
Movie • 1939
Irene Fellara
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1936
Juliet
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Movie • 1934
Elizabeth Barrett
Channing of the Northwest
Movie • 1922
Jess Driscoll
Married Flirts
Movie • 1924
Norma Shearer (uncredited)
A Man's Man
Movie • 1929
Norman Shearer (uncredited)
The Divorcee
Movie • 1930
Jerry
A Free Soul
Movie • 1931
Jan Ashe
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Owner of Stolen Jewels
Lady of the Night
Movie • 1925
Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
Smilin' Through
Movie • 1932
Kathleen / Moonyeen
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Movie • 1928
Kathi
Her Cardboard Lover
Movie • 1942
Consuelo Croyden
Strangers May Kiss
Movie • 1931
Lisbeth Corbin
Private Lives
Movie • 1931
Amanda Prynne
Their Own Desire
Movie • 1929
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie • 1929
Mary Elizabeth Dugan
Escape
Movie • 1940
Countess Ruby von Treck
Strange Interlude
Movie • 1932
Nina Leeds
Let Us Be Gay
Movie • 1930
Kitty Brown
Pretty Ladies
Movie • 1925
Frances White
Upstage
Movie • 1926
Dolly Haven
A Lady of Chance
Movie • 1928
Dolly Morgan
The Waning Sex
Movie • 1926
Nina Duane
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Devil's Circus
Movie • 1926
Mary
Riptide
Movie • 1934
Lady Mary Rexford
After Midnight
Movie • 1927
Mary Miller
We Were Dancing
Movie • 1942
Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
Lucretia Lombard
Movie • 1923
Mimi Winship
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie • 1929
Fay Cheyney
A Clouded Name
Movie • 1923
Marjorie Dare
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The Tower of Lies
Movie • 1925
Glory/Goldie
Sports on the Silver Screen
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
The Christmas Party
Movie • 1931
Herself
Broadway After Dark
Movie • 1924
Rose Dulane
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
The Actress
Movie • 1928
Rose Trelawny
Way Down East
Movie • 1920
Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Going Hollywood
Movie • 1933
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Movie • 1931
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie • 1940
Self
1925 Studio Tour
Movie • 1925
Self
The Restless Sex
Movie • 1920
Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1937
Self (archive footage)
Waking Up the Town
Movie • 1925
Mary Ellen Hope
The Latest from Paris
Movie • 1928
Ann Dolan
The Snob
Movie • 1924
Nancy Claxton
A Slave of Fashion
Movie • 1925
Katherine Emerson
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie • 1940
Self
Judy Garland: By Myself
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie • 1938
Self
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie • 2008
Various Roles (archive footage)
The Film Parade
Movie • 1933
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Another Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1938
Self (uncredited)
Master Will Shakespeare
Movie • 1936
Juliet (uncredited)
His Secretary
Movie • 1925
Ruth Lawrence
Blue Water
Movie • 1924
Lillian Denton
Excuse Me
Movie • 1925
Marjorie Newton
The Wanters
Movie • 1923
Marjorie
The Trail of the Law
Movie • 1924
Jerry Vardon
The Bootleggers
Movie • 1922
Helen Barnes
The Taming of the Shrewd
Movie • 1922
Rose Del Mar
The Devil's Partner
Movie • 1923
Jeanne
Broken Barriers
Movie • 1924
Grace Durland
The Stealers
Movie • 1920
Julie Martin
Man and Wife
Movie • 1923
Dora Perkins
Pleasure Mad
Movie • 1923
Elinor Benton
Torchy's Millions
Movie • 1920
(uncredited)
The Man Who Paid
Movie • 1922
Jeanne Thornton
The Star Boarder
Movie • 1919
Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
The Demi-Bride
Movie • 1927
Criquette
The End of the World
Movie • 1925
Mary Ellen Hope
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie • 1939
Norma Shearer
The Flapper
Movie • 1920
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
The End of the World
Movie • 1925
Mary Ellen Hope
Anniversary
Movie • 1963
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
MGM Parade
TV • 1955