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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.
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Filmography
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Movies 96
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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
Girl 27 (2007)
Judy Garland: By Myself (2004)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Complicated Women (2003)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (1990)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Twenty Years After (1944)
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
We Were Dancing (1942)
Escape (1940)
The Women (1939)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Riptide (1934)
Going Hollywood (1933)
The Film Parade (1933)
Strange Interlude (1932)
Smilin' Through (1932)
A Free Soul (1931)
The Stolen Jools (1931)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
Their Own Desire (1929)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
A Man's Man (1929)
A Lady of Chance (1928)
The Actress (1928)
The Latest from Paris (1928)
After Midnight (1927)
The Demi-Bride (1927)
Upstage (1926)
The Waning Sex (1926)
His Secretary (1925)
The Tower of Lies (1925)
Pretty Ladies (1925)
A Slave of Fashion (1925)
The End of the World (1925)
Waking Up the Town (1925)
Lady of the Night (1925)
Excuse Me (1925)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Snob (1924)
Married Flirts (1924)
Broken Barriers (1924)
Empty Hands (1924)
Broadway After Dark (1924)
Blue Water (1924)
The Wolf Man (1924)
The Trail of the Law (1924)
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
The Wanters (1923)
Pleasure Mad (1923)
Man and Wife (1923)
A Clouded Name (1923)
Channing of the Northwest (1922)
The Taming of the Shrewd (1922)
The Bootleggers (1922)
The Man Who Paid (1922)
The Restless Sex (1920)
The Stealers (1920)
Way Down East (1920)
The Flapper (1920)
The Star Boarder (1919)
The End of the World
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1902-08-10
Deathday1983-06-12 (80 years old)
Birth NameEdith Norma Shearer
Birth PlaceMontreal, Canada
ReligionChristianity
Height
RelationshipsIrving Thalberg (1927 - 1936)
SpouseMartin Arrougé
ChildrenKatherine Thalberg, Irving Thalberg, Jr.
FatherAndrew Shearer
MotherEdith Fisher
SiblingsDouglas Shearer, Athole Shearer
CitizenshipsUnited States, Canada
Also Known AsEdith Norma Shearer, Queen Norma, Norma Sherer, The First Lady of MGM
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Canada's Walk of Fame, Academy Award for Best Actress
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