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The Kid Stays in the Picture

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Her Cardboard Lover

as Consuelo Croyden

1942
We Were Dancing

as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska

1942
The Women

as Mary Haines

1939
Marie Antoinette

as Marie Antoinette

1938
Romeo and Juliet

as Juliet

1936
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Elizabeth Barrett

1934
Smilin' Through

as Kathleen / Moonyeen

1932
A Free Soul

as Jan Ashe

1931
Strangers May Kiss

as Lisbeth Corbin

1931
The Christmas Party

as Herself

1931
The Divorcee

as Jerry

1930
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

as Self / Juliet

1929
Their Own Desire

as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett

1929
A Lady of Chance

as Dolly Morgan

1928
The Waning Sex

as Nina Duane

1926
Lady of the Night

as Molly Helmer / Florence Banning

1925
The Wolf Man

as Elizabeth Gordon

1924
The Star Boarder

as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)

1919
Norma Shearer Norma Shearer

Birthday

1902-08-10

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.
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