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Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983)[2][3] was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942.[4] Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women.[5] She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare,[6] and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).[7]

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer

(1902-08-11)August 11, 1902
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

June 12, 1983(1983-06-12) (aged 80)

Los Angeles, California, US

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale

  • Canada
  • United States[1]

Actress

1919–1950s

Republican

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    (m. 1927; died 1936)​
  • Martin Arrougé
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    (m. 1942)​

2, including Irving Thalberg Jr.

Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".[8]

List of actors with Academy Award nominations

Sarris, Andrew. 1998. "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet." The American Talking Film History & Memory, 1927–1949. Oxford University Press.  0-19-513426-5

ISBN

(2000). Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-25207-6.

LaSalle, Mick

Gutner, Howard (2001). Gowns By Adrian: The MGM Years 1928–1941. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  978-0-8109-0898-7.

ISBN

(1990). Norma Shearer: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-55158-6.

Lambert, Gavin

Jacobs, Jack and Braum, Myron (1976). The Films of Norma Shearer. South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company.  0-498-01552-1

ISBN

Koszarski, Richard. 1976. Hollywood Directors: 1914-1940. Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 76-9262.

Quirk, Lawrence J.; Schoell, William (September 30, 2002). . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2254-0.

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography

Vieira, Mark A. (2009). . Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26048-1.

Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince

Vieira, Mark A. (1997). . New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-3434-5.

Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits: The Chapman Collection

Vieira, Mark A. (2013). . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-5039-8.

George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits, 1925 to 1992

Larkin, T. Lawrence (2019). . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-14600-9.

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s: Stefan Zweig, Irving Thalberg, and Norma Shearer

Official website

at IMDb

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at the TCM Movie Database

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at AllMovie

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Photographs of Norma Shearer