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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 (Movies)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Character:Various Roles (archive footage)
Release Date:03/03/2008
Judy Garland: By Myself
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/02/2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/02/2004
Complicated Women
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/05/2003
Sports on the Silver Screen
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/03/1997
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/1996
That's Entertainment! III
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/07/1994
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/07/1990
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/10/1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:25/02/1983
That's Entertainment!
Character:(archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:21/06/1974
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:10/01/1972
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1970
Anniversary
Character:Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/1963
Twenty Years After
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1944
Her Cardboard Lover
Character:Consuelo Croyden
Release Date:16/07/1942
We Were Dancing
Character:Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
Release Date:30/04/1942
Escape
Character:Countess Ruby von Treck
Release Date:01/11/1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Character:Self
Release Date:24/10/1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Character:Self
Release Date:31/07/1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Character:Self
Release Date:29/05/1940
The Women
Character:Mary Haines
Release Date:01/09/1939
From the Ends of the Earth
Character:Self
Release Date:28/05/1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Character:Norma Shearer
Release Date:08/04/1939
Idiot's Delight
Character:Irene Fellara
Release Date:27/01/1939
Marie Antoinette
Character:Marie Antoinette
Release Date:26/08/1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:05/02/1938
The Romance of Celluloid
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/08/1937
Romeo and Juliet
Character:Juliet
Release Date:03/09/1936
Master Will Shakespeare
Character:Juliet (uncredited)
Release Date:13/06/1936
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character:Elizabeth Barrett
Release Date:21/09/1934
Riptide
Character:Lady Mary Rexford
Release Date:29/03/1934
Going Hollywood
Character:Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
Release Date:22/12/1933
The Film Parade
Character:(archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/1933
Strange Interlude
Character:Nina Leeds
Release Date:30/12/1932
Smilin' Through
Character:Kathleen / Moonyeen
Release Date:24/09/1932
The Christmas Party
Character:Herself
Release Date:17/12/1931
Private Lives
Character:Amanda Prynne
Release Date:12/12/1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:09/06/1931
A Free Soul
Character:Jan Ashe
Release Date:02/06/1931
The Stolen Jools
Character:Owner of Stolen Jewels
Release Date:04/04/1931
Strangers May Kiss
Character:Lisbeth Corbin
Release Date:04/04/1931
Let Us Be Gay
Character:Kitty Brown
Release Date:11/07/1930
The Divorcee
Character:Jerry
Release Date:19/04/1930
Their Own Desire
Character:Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
Release Date:27/12/1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Character:Self / Juliet
Release Date:23/11/1929
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character:Fay Cheyney
Release Date:06/07/1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character:Mary Elizabeth Dugan
Release Date:08/06/1929
A Man's Man
Character:Norman Shearer (uncredited)
Release Date:25/05/1929
A Lady of Chance
Character:Dolly Morgan
Release Date:01/12/1928
The Actress
Character:Rose Trelawny
Release Date:27/04/1928
The Latest from Paris
Character:Ann Dolan
Release Date:04/02/1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Character:Kathi
Release Date:30/01/1928
After Midnight
Character:Mary Miller
Release Date:20/08/1927
The Demi-Bride
Character:Criquette
Release Date:19/02/1927
Upstage
Character:Dolly Haven
Release Date:06/11/1926
The Waning Sex
Character:Nina Duane
Release Date:05/09/1926
The Devil's Circus
Character:Mary
Release Date:14/02/1926
His Secretary
Character:Ruth Lawrence
Release Date:06/12/1925
The Tower of Lies
Character:Glory/Goldie
Release Date:10/10/1925
Pretty Ladies
Character:Frances White
Release Date:06/09/1925
A Slave of Fashion
Character:Katherine Emerson
Release Date:23/08/1925
1925 Studio Tour
Character:Self
Release Date:09/04/1925
The End of the World
Character:Mary Ellen Hope
Release Date:01/04/1925
The End of the World
Character:Mary Ellen Hope
Release Date:01/04/1925
Waking Up the Town
Character:Mary Ellen Hope
Release Date:30/03/1925
Lady of the Night
Character:Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
Release Date:23/02/1925
Excuse Me
Character:Marjorie Newton
Release Date:19/01/1925
He Who Gets Slapped
Character:Consuelo
Release Date:22/12/1924
The Snob
Character:Nancy Claxton
Release Date:10/11/1924
Married Flirts
Character:Norma Shearer (uncredited)
Release Date:27/10/1924
Broken Barriers
Character:Grace Durland
Release Date:18/08/1924
Empty Hands
Character:Claire Endicott
Release Date:17/08/1924
Broadway After Dark
Character:Rose Dulane
Release Date:19/05/1924
Blue Water
Character:Lillian Denton
Release Date:16/04/1924
The Wolf Man
Character:Elizabeth Gordon
Release Date:17/02/1924
The Trail of the Law
Character:Jerry Vardon
Release Date:25/01/1924
Lucretia Lombard
Character:Mimi Winship
Release Date:08/12/1923
The Wanters
Character:Marjorie
Release Date:26/11/1923
Pleasure Mad
Character:Elinor Benton
Release Date:05/11/1923
The Devil's Partner
Character:Jeanne
Release Date:01/06/1923
Man and Wife
Character:Dora Perkins
Release Date:25/03/1923
A Clouded Name
Character:Marjorie Dare
Release Date:19/02/1923
Channing of the Northwest
Character:Jess Driscoll
Release Date:10/04/1922
The Taming of the Shrewd
Character:Rose Del Mar
Release Date:10/04/1922
The Bootleggers
Character:Helen Barnes
Release Date:01/04/1922
The Man Who Paid
Character:Jeanne Thornton
Release Date:01/03/1922
The Restless Sex
Character:Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
Release Date:12/11/1920
Torchy's Millions
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:03/10/1920
The Stealers
Character:Julie Martin
Release Date:03/10/1920
Way Down East
Character:Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Release Date:03/09/1920
The Flapper
Character:Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Release Date:10/05/1920
The Star Boarder
Character:Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
Release Date:26/05/1919
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