Norma Shearer
Known for: Acting
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
Series
MGM Parade
1955
Series
Hollywood
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1980
Film
The Women
Mary Haines
1939
Film
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
1938
Film
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Film
Idiot's Delight
Irene Fellara
1939
Series
1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year
2023
Film
Riptide
Lady Mary Rexford
1934
Film
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett
1934
Film
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
Film
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
1936
Film
He Who Gets Slapped
Consuelo
1924
Film
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self / Juliet
1929
Film
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
The Stolen Jools
Owner of Stolen Jewels
1931
Film
Pleasure Mad
Elinor Benton
1923
Film
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
2008
Film
A Lady of Chance
Dolly Morgan
1928
Film
Strangers May Kiss
Lisbeth Corbin
1931
Film
The Divorcee
Jerry
1930
Film
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
1940
Film
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Film
The Romance of Celluloid
Self (archive footage)
1937
Film
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Kathi
1928
Film
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
1940
Film
Lady of the Night
Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
1925
Film
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
1940
Film
Escape
Countess Ruby von Treck
1940
Film
Smilin' Through
Kathleen / Moonyeen
1932
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
1938
Film
Strange Interlude
Nina Leeds
1932
Film
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
1944
Film
The Bootleggers
Helen Barnes
1922
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
A Free Soul
Jan Ashe
1931
Film
The Wolf Man
Elizabeth Gordon
1924
Film
A Man's Man
Norman Shearer (uncredited)
1929
Film
Her Cardboard Lover
Consuelo Croyden
1942
Film
Way Down East
Barn Dancer (uncredited)
1920
Film
Vito
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
Excuse Me
Marjorie Newton
1925
Film
A Slave of Fashion
Katherine Emerson
1925
Film
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
1939
Film
The Latest from Paris
Ann Dolan
1928
Film
The Movie Album
(archive footage)
1932
Film
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Elizabeth Dugan
1929
Film
The Devil's Partner
Jeanne
1923
Film
Let Us Be Gay
Kitty Brown
1930
Film
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Private Lives
Amanda Prynne
1931
Film
Pretty Ladies
Frances White
1925
Film
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1972
Film
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
1938
Film
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1970
Film
The Devil's Circus
Mary
1926
Film
Their Own Desire
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
1929
Anniversary
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
1963
Film
A Clouded Name
Marjorie Dare
1923
Film
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Self
1931
Film
The Tower of Lies
Glory/Goldie
1925
Film
Channing of the Northwest
Jess Driscoll
1922
Film
Going Hollywood
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
1933
Film
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Norma Shearer
1939
Film
The Man Who Paid
Jeanne Thornton
1922
Film
The Restless Sex
Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
1920
Film
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Fay Cheyney
1929
Film
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Demi-Bride
Criquette
1927
Film
1925 Studio Tour
Self
1925
Film
The End of the World
Mary Ellen Hope
1925
Film
We Were Dancing
Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
1942
The End of the World
Mary Ellen Hope
1925
Film
The Star Boarder
Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
1919
Film
After Midnight
Mary Miller
1927
Film
Waking Up the Town
Mary Ellen Hope
1925
Film
The Waning Sex
Nina Duane
1926
Film
The Trail of the Law
Jerry Vardon
1924
Film
The Taming of the Shrewd
Rose Del Mar
1922
Film
Upstage
Dolly Haven
1926
Film
The Wanters
Marjorie
1923
Film
Torchy's Millions
(uncredited)
1920
Film
Empty Hands
Claire Endicott
1924
Film
Broadway After Dark
Rose Dulane
1924
Film
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Film
The Christmas Party
Herself
1931
Film
Broken Barriers
Grace Durland
1924
Film
The Flapper
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1920
Film
Man and Wife
Dora Perkins
1923
Film
The Actress
Rose Trelawny
1928
Film
The Stealers
Julie Martin
1920
Film
His Secretary
Ruth Lawrence
1925
Film
Married Flirts
Norma Shearer (uncredited)
1924
Film
Lucretia Lombard
Mimi Winship
1923
Film
Master Will Shakespeare
Juliet (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Snob
Nancy Claxton
1924
Film
Blue Water
Lillian Denton
1924