Person
Norma Shearer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 Nor…
IMDbKnown for
Popular titles
Photos
More stills of Norma Shearer
Biography
A closer look
Read full 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
Movies and shows, newest first
- 2023
-
2015
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
2011
Vito
Movie Self (archive)
-
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie Various Roles (archive footage)
-
2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
2003
Complicated Women
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1995
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
-
1990
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
-
1974
That's Entertainment!
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
-
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
More credits
-
1970
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1963
Anniversary
Movie Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
-
1955
MGM Parade
TV show
-
1944
Twenty Years After
Movie (archive footage)
-
1942
Her Cardboard Lover
Movie Consuelo Croyden
-
1942
We Were Dancing
Movie Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
-
1940
Escape
Movie Countess Ruby von Treck
- 1940
-
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie Self
-
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie Self
-
1939
The Women
Movie Mary Haines
-
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie Self
-
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie Norma Shearer
-
1939
Idiot's Delight
Movie Irene Fellara
-
1938
Marie Antoinette
Movie Marie Antoinette
-
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie Self
-
1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
Movie Self (uncredited)
-
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie Self (archive footage)
-
1936
Romeo and Juliet
Movie Juliet
-
1936
Master Will Shakespeare
Movie Juliet (uncredited)
-
1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Movie Elizabeth Barrett
-
1934
Riptide
Movie Lady Mary Rexford
-
1933
Going Hollywood
Movie Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
-
1933
The Film Parade
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
