Acting
Norma Shearer
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
1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year
Series · 2023
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Film · 2015
Vito
Film · 2011
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Film · 2008
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Film · 2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
Film · 2004
Complicated Women
Film · 2003
Sports on the Silver Screen
Film · 1997
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Film · 1996
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Film · 1995
That's Entertainment! III
Film · 1994
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Film · 1990
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Film · 1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Film · 1983
Hollywood
Series · 1980
That's Entertainment!
Film · 1974
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Film · 1972
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Film · 1970
Anniversary
Film · 1963
MGM Parade
Series · 1955
Twenty Years After
Film · 1944
Her Cardboard Lover
Film · 1942
We Were Dancing
Film · 1942
Escape
Film · 1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Film · 1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Film · 1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Film · 1940
The Women
Film · 1939
Idiot's Delight
Film · 1939
From the Ends of the Earth
Film · 1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Film · 1939
Marie Antoinette
Film · 1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Film · 1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
Film · 1938
The Romance of Celluloid
Film · 1937
Romeo and Juliet
Film · 1936
Master Will Shakespeare
Film · 1936
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Film · 1934
Riptide
Film · 1934
Going Hollywood
Film · 1933
The Film Parade
Film · 1933
Smilin' Through
Film · 1932
Strange Interlude
Film · 1932
The Movie Album
Film · 1932
A Free Soul
Film · 1931
The Stolen Jools
Film · 1931
Strangers May Kiss
Film · 1931
Private Lives
Film · 1931
The Christmas Party
Film · 1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Film · 1931
The Divorcee
Film · 1930
Let Us Be Gay
Film · 1930
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Film · 1929
A Man's Man
Film · 1929
Their Own Desire
Film · 1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Film · 1929
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Film · 1929
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Film · 1928
A Lady of Chance
Film · 1928
The Actress
Film · 1928
The Latest from Paris
Film · 1928
After Midnight
Film · 1927
The Demi-Bride
Film · 1927
Upstage
Film · 1926
The Waning Sex
Film · 1926
The Devil's Circus
Film · 1926
Lady of the Night
Film · 1925
Pretty Ladies
Film · 1925
The Tower of Lies
Film · 1925
1925 Studio Tour
Film · 1925
Waking Up the Town
Film · 1925
A Slave of Fashion
Film · 1925
His Secretary
Film · 1925
Excuse Me
Film · 1925
The End of the World
Film · 1925
The End of the World
Film · 1925
He Who Gets Slapped
Film · 1924
The Wolf Man
Film · 1924
Empty Hands
Film · 1924
Married Flirts
Film · 1924
Broadway After Dark
Film · 1924
The Snob
Film · 1924
Blue Water
Film · 1924
The Trail of the Law
Film · 1924
Broken Barriers
Film · 1924
Lucretia Lombard
Film · 1923
A Clouded Name
Film · 1923
Man and Wife
Film · 1923
The Devil's Partner
Film · 1923
Pleasure Mad
Film · 1923
The Wanters
Film · 1923
Channing of the Northwest
Film · 1922
The Man Who Paid
Film · 1922
The Taming of the Shrewd
Film · 1922
The Bootleggers
Film · 1922
Way Down East
Film · 1920
The Restless Sex
Film · 1920
Torchy's Millions
Film · 1920
The Stealers
Film · 1920
The Flapper
Film · 1920
The Star Boarder
Film · 1919