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• (Edith Norma Shearer)actressBorn: 8/10/1900Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Academy Award-winning actress considered the First Lady of the Screen during the early days of Hollywood, Shearer won a Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930), and was nominated for her performances in Their Own Desire (1929), The Barrets of Wimpole Street (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Marie Antoinette (1938). ...
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• Montréal's very own GoddessOnce upon a time, the name Norma Shearer blazed in the Hollywood star system. ... Any movie with Norma Shearer in it meant big box office!* * *.
• Today, however, Norma Shearer remains hidden behind larger-than-life Hollywood heroines like Greta Garbo and Bette Davis, and with only a tiny fraction of the cult status of Marlene Dietrich or even Joan Crawford (her arch-enemy, by the way, who huffed "How can I compete with her? She sleeps with the boss!").
• "I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing," Shearer herself once said. ... " And Dominick Dunne describes Shearer as "a sugary dewdrop a cameo brooch of an actress. ...
• Norma Shearer was born August 11, 1902 in Montréal. ... Norma's mother, Edith, was the classic stage-mother, shoving her children into theatricals and beauty contests. ...
• Norma auditioned for the Ziegfeld Follies, but was rejected for having short, fat legs. ... ") Still, Norma did ads for everything from fashion to car tires. ...
• In 1924, however, Norma Shearer's world changed forever. ... Thalberg was in love with Norma and determined to make her a major star. ...
• Unlike many stars of the time-and largely thanks to Thalberg-Shearer made an easy transition from silent films to talkies. Her first sound film, "The Trial of Mary Dugan" in 1930, produced by Thalberg, featured an ingenious plot twist which kept Shearer's character mute until the end of the movie!.
• A mere year later, Norma won the Oscar for best actress in "The Divorcee. " The film, like many of Shearer's vehicles, balances the "traditional" vs. ... And, in spite of the Academy Award for her performance, many people mocked Shearer for her stilted way of speaking and slightly cross-eyed look.

• (Norma Shearer's profile was her most famous feature; a February 1934 portrait for Edmund Goulding's Riptide. ...

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• Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-born American actress. ...
• Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee (1930). She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette (said to be Shearer's favorite role). ...
• Shearer retired from acting in 1942, marrying that same year Mart n Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of Shearer's death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving. ... and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow. ...

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• A year before her, Norma Shearer, born in Westmount, Quebec, won the same award as the star of The Divorcee, and in 1929, Toronto-born Mary Pickford won an Oscar for Coquette, the first talking picture she made. ...
• Marie Dressier, left, is honoured by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts as Best Actress of the Year and Norma Shearer, who had won the same award in 1930, presents her Canadian confrere with the most famous of all mantlepiece artifacts ©A. ...
• Born in Montreal, and a graduate of Westmount High School, Norma Shearer became a popular Hollywood actress, winning Best Actress in 1930 for her role as a liberated woman in The Divorcee. ... Following the 1936 death of her MGM movie mogul husband,   Irving Thalberg, Shearer's movie appearances became more infrequent. ...
• Norma Shearer’s career also started in the silent movie era. Born in 1900 to a wealthy construction owner, Norma showed promise as a pianist, and enjoyed a happy childhood until her father’s business failed in her teenage years. Forced to live in more humble circumstances, Norma played the piano in a sheet music store before her ambitious mother decided to leave her husband and take Norma and a younger sister to New York. ...
• Before the end of 1920, Norma, despite being just five feet two and with indifferent legs, was modelling for a tire company as Miss Lotta Miles. ...
• Shearer continued to be a major film star throughout the 1930s, playing the leading roles in Noel Coward’s Private Lives with Robert Montgomery, Eugene O’Neil’s Strange Interlude with Clark Gable, and Smilin’ Through with Leslie Howard and Frederic March. ...
• It was Norma Shearer who presented the best actress award to Marie Dressler in 1931. ...
• Marie’s performance rivalled that of Garbo and led to a series of comedy hits with MGM studios including one with Jack Benny and another with Norma Shearer in 1930. ...
• When they received their Oscars, Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame, Norma Shearer was near the beginning of a brilliant career (She went on to win five more academy award nominations during the 1930s and to be called “The First Lady of the Screen. ...

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• While it's been said that costars Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer are both too old and too lethargic to portray Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in this Irving Thalberg production, one can have a good time with this film by simply basking in their star presence and enjoying the breadth of the. ...
• Norma Shearer  (March 2, 1994).
• Silly but entertaining story of vivacious Shearer marrying stodgy British Lord (Marshall), then becoming involved in scandal with Montgomery. ...
• Norma Shearer  (November 7, 2000).
• While it's been said that costars Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer are both too old and too lethargic to portray Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in this Irving Thalberg production, one can have a good time with this film by simply basking in their star presence and enjoying the breadth of the. ...

• Shearer, Norma.
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• in full Edith Norma Shearer  American motion-picture actress known for her glamour, charm, sophistication, and versatility. Shearer was dubbed the “First Lady of the Screen” by MGM because of her marriage to Hollywood producer Irving G. ...
• Shearer, who had been a child model, won a beauty contest at age 14. ...
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• Thalberg signed Shearer to a long-term contract with MGM in 1923 and she quickly became a popular star in such films as "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924), "His Secretary" (1925) and "The Student Prince" (1927), typically as a gentle but vivacious ingenue. ... A striking and often lovely brunette actress with a great profile, Shearer compensated for a slight lack of conventional beauty with great poise, elegance and charm. ...
•       One of MGM's biggest stars of the 1930s, the ultra-chic Shearer eschewed the more innocent image of her silent stardom during the racy pre-Code period of the early 30s to play a series of wronged wives who fight the double standard by turning into silken sinners in films including "The Divorcee", "Strangers May Kiss" (1931) and "Riptide" (1934). ...
•       Shearer lost interest in her career after Thalberg's death in 1936; this, coupled with a poor choice of roles (she turned down the leads in "Gone With the Wind" 1939 and "Mrs. ...
•       As with Garbo, Shearer did receive offers after she left MGM and considered return vehicles to the cinema; in several cases, she backed out or else the projects never really got off the ground. ... Shearer did enjoy four decades of marriage, though, to her second husband, a former ski instructor and land developer she met and married in 1942. Her brother, Douglas Shearer (1899-1971), was a pioneering sound technician who won 12 Oscars and developed several key technical innovations. ...

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• À l'âge de 14 ans, Norma remporta un premier prix dans un concours de beauté; une première étape qui confirma son désir de faire du show-business. ... Norma travailla à quelques reprises pour eux mais ne fit rien de très remarquable. ... Norma jouira donc de privilèges peu communs, allant de la possibilité de choisir ses sujets de films, ses partenaires de jeux et ses metteurs en scène en plus de pouvoir à loisir étirer ses périodes de vacances.
• Thalberg s'assura ainsi de constamment aiguiller Norma dans ses choix de rôles.

• Norma Shearer stars as devoted wife Mary Haines whos been done wrong by her husband. ...
• Scarlett, I dont know nuthin bout birthin babies), famed columnist Hedda Hopper and Hattie McDaniel in it as well Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind and others in the starring roles. ... Rosalind Russell as Norma Shearers catty underhanded cousin is my favorite. ... Its as fresh now as it was in 1939, especially when Mary (Norma Shearer) tells her mother, after she has found out that her husband is cheating on her, "Mother, this is the 20th century. ...
• Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell are hilarious as two pampered Park Avenue socialites. Morma Shearer plays Mary Haines, a devoted wife and mother who is greatly upset by marriage troubles about her unfaithful husband. ...

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• The film has a terrific cast, including Norma Shearer in a leading role. Quite memorable as one of the best heartbreakers (tearjerkers, if you like) out of 1930s Hollywood, the story finds Howard's character living alone for three decades following the death of his beloved (Shearer). An unhappy man, he becomes guardian to his niece (Shearer again), the spitting image of his almost-wife. ...
• The 1932 version of "Smilin' Through", starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Leslie Howard is what old style Hollywood romance is all about. ...
• Chosen as Norma Shearer's big 1932 release,"Smilin' Through" had already been a smashing success on screen for another famous Norma ,. ... It marked a distinct change of pace for Norma Shearer from her earlier "women of the world", performances in films such as "A Free Soul", and "The Divorcee". A totally underrated and sadly a largely forgotten actress today Norma Shearer here reveals just what she is capable of in a dramatic performance as she plays the dual role of Moonyeen, the tragic fiancee of Leslie Howard's Sir John Carteret who is killed on her wedding day by a drunken and jealous ex love Jeremy Wayne (March), and his own niece Kathleen who grows up in Sir John's house and who in turn falls in love with Kenneth Wayne the son of Moonyeen's killer. ...
• Norma Shearer is equally appealing as the spirit of Moonyeen and young Kathleen and she is matched all the way by talented Fredric March in the dual roles of the drunken Jeremy Wayne and as his earnest young son Kenneth who lives under the cloud of his father's terrible deed. ...
• The sterling performances by the leads make this a memorable effort from MGM in the early 1930's and I feel it contains some of the best work done by Norma Shearer during this period. ...
• Norma and Freddie work superbly together here just like they did in The Barretts of Wimpole Street. ... Norma is the Queen of Gaze and it lends a certain grace and drama to every moment. ...
• Would Loved to Have Been Norma!, July 21, 2002 .
• I got this movie because I like Fredric March and I also like Norma Shearer. ... Neither one disappoint in "Smilin' Through"; if you have never seen March and Shearer work together, you do not know what you are missing. ... I can't put it into better words except to say they are so sweet in their little love affair and Norma does a great job of expressing her love without being silly or unbelievable. When March has to go to war, you can feel Norma's despair and near hysteria. ... Norma is at the station waiting for her beloved, dressed in a simple but stunning little outfit. ... He goes to his house,and it so happens Norma sees the lights on and finds him there. ... Norma is her innocently lovely best, giving many of her famous gazes. ... I especially liked him in the little scene with Kathleen (Norma's character) as a little girl. ...

• The next year saw a win for another Hollywood bright light, Norma Shearer. Shearer beat out second time nominee, Ruth Chatteron, Gloria Swanson, and Greta Garbo, amidst rumors that her studio, MGM, had sent out memos to its stable of stars to vote in her favor. ...
• Like Pickford, Montreal born Norma Shearer was a silent film star. ...
• The Divorcee was Shearer's fourth talkie, and it was a hit with audiences and critics, alike.   A 1930 article in Liberty Magazine said, "The acting throughout is fine, and although Norma Shearer is not so beautiful here as she usually is, she gives more to the part of Jerry than she has ever given to a characterization before. ...
• Despite good reviews, and great success, Shearer's performance was overshadowed that year by another silent star, who was making her first talking picture. ...
• Shearer's triumph was marred by gossip, including a campaign of coercion by MGM, which was never proven.   Part of the criticism for Shearer's win may have been over the fact that she was nominated that year for two performances.   The other film, Their Own Desire, was light weight fare that even Shearer, herself, was openly critical of. ...
•   Shearer never responded to the criticism, maintaining a graciousness throughout her career, that became her trademark. ...
• Meanwhile, for Shearer, she managed to prove that her success was no fluke, and that she was more than just Irving Thalberg's pretty wife. ...   Thalberg died suddenly in 1936, and while the tragedy was devastating for Shearer,  she continued to work on popular pictures, including Marie Antoinette, and The Women (with Joan Crawford).
• Shearer retired from acting in the early forties, and while spotted by the paparazzi occasionally throughout the years, she, like Pickford, never returned to acting.
• The book discusses in great detail, the career of Norma Shearer, who today is relatively unknown, except among serious film buffs.   LaSalle claims that Shearer's pre-code films, such as Riptide and the Divorcee, 'told audiences that the loving wife and the proper society gal was, sexually a loose cannon'.
• It was only a matter of time for Norma! .

• Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell.
• As a narrative, THE WOMEN relates the sad case of a well-disposed and intelligent young matron (played by the 39 year-old Norma Shearer) who loses her husband to a chippy, retrieves him by resorting to the predatory tactics conventional among her friends. ... With not one male in the whole cast, this movie is a hoot from start to finish! Norma Shearer is cast as Mary Haines, the nice woman who's husband has cheated; Rosalind Russell is a riot as the foul Sylvia Fowler, and Crawford scored a triumph as bitchy Crystal Allen, the slick shopgirl whom Stephen Haines has interest in. ... And put some gin in it!" Joan Fontaine is the essence of sweet simplicity and Marjorie Main is her usual kick as Lucy who runs the Dude Ranch (the scene in which she sings is rather obvious, loud and annoying, in my opinion) Norma Shearer, for some obscure reason, is an actress which is rarely seen on television, but her acting was quite good and she's surprisingly modern and natural in her playing. Crawford and Shearer, ironically, were rivals in real life (for plum MGM movie roles in the thirties - Crawford's once-famous crack: "How can I compete with Norma? She sleeps with the boss!" (referring to her husband Irving Thalberg, who died in 1937) - contained some sarcasm and perhaps bitterness - which surely added to their very effective characterisations!.
• Norma Shearer plays a devoted wife whose husband is having an affair with the "salesgirl" at the perfume counter (Joan Crawford). ...
• Crawford is wonderful as the conniving other woman, and "The Women" made me an instant Shearer fan. Shearer manages to come across as a strong, self-reliant woman throughout most of the movie, despite being the wronged wife still in love with her husband.
• The film details the marital travails of Mary Haines, played by screen great, Norma Shearer. ...
• Norma Shearer is perfectly cast as the somewhat prim and proper Mary Haines. ... Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford were actually real life rivals and had never much liked each other, so I am sure that playing rivals in this film was not a stretch. ...

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