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