Norma Shearer
Birthday
1902/08/10
Day of death
1983/06/12 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also know as
Edith Norma Shearer, Queen Norma, Norma Sherer, The First Lady of MGM
Biography
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...Read more
Acting
(1939) The Women
as Mary Haines
(1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self / Juliet
(1924) The Wolf Man
as Elizabeth Gordon
(1924) He Who Gets Slapped
as Consuelo
(1924) Empty Hands
as Claire Endicott
(1938) Marie Antoinette
as Marie Antoinette
(1939) Idiot's Delight
as Irene Fellara
(1936) Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet
(1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Elizabeth Barrett
(1922) Channing of the Northwest
as Jess Driscoll
(1924) Married Flirts
as Norma Shearer (uncredited)
(1929) A Man's Man
as Norman Shearer (uncredited)
(1930) The Divorcee
as Jerry
(1931) A Free Soul
as Jan Ashe
(1931) The Stolen Jools
as Owner of Stolen Jewels
(1925) Lady of the Night
as Molly Helmer / Florence Banning
(1932) Smilin' Through
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
(1928) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Kathi
(1942) Her Cardboard Lover
as Consuelo Croyden
(1931) Strangers May Kiss
as Lisbeth Corbin
(1931) Private Lives
as Amanda Prynne
(1929) Their Own Desire
as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1929) The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mary Elizabeth Dugan
(1940) Escape
as Countess Ruby von Treck
(1932) Strange Interlude
as Nina Leeds
(1930) Let Us Be Gay
as Kitty Brown
(1925) Pretty Ladies
as Frances White
(1926) Upstage
as Dolly Haven
(1928) A Lady of Chance
as Dolly Morgan
(1926) The Waning Sex
as Nina Duane
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1926) The Devil's Circus
as Mary
(1934) Riptide
as Lady Mary Rexford
(1927) After Midnight
as Mary Miller
(1942) We Were Dancing
as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska
(1923) Lucretia Lombard
as Mimi Winship
(1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Fay Cheyney
(1923) A Clouded Name
as Marjorie Dare
(2004) Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
(1925) The Tower of Lies
as Glory/Goldie
(1997) Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) The Christmas Party
as Herself
(1924) Broadway After Dark
as Rose Dulane
(1990) You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
(1928) The Actress
as Rose Trelawny
(1920) Way Down East
as Barn Dancer (uncredited)
(1933) Going Hollywood
as Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
(1974) That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1996) Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
(1940) A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
(1925) 1925 Studio Tour
as Self
(1920) The Restless Sex
as Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1937) The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
(1925) Waking Up the Town
as Mary Ellen Hope
(1928) The Latest from Paris
as Ann Dolan
(1924) The Snob
as Nancy Claxton
(1925) A Slave of Fashion
as Katherine Emerson
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
(2004) Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
(1938) Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1944) Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1939) From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
(1933) The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938) Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1936) Master Will Shakespeare
as Juliet (uncredited)
(1925) His Secretary
as Ruth Lawrence
(1924) Blue Water
as Lillian Denton
(1925) Excuse Me
as Marjorie Newton
(1923) The Wanters
as Marjorie
(1924) The Trail of the Law
as Jerry Vardon
(1922) The Bootleggers
as Helen Barnes
(1922) The Taming of the Shrewd
as Rose Del Mar
(1923) The Devil's Partner
as Jeanne
(1924) Broken Barriers
as Grace Durland
(1920) The Stealers
as Julie Martin
(1923) Man and Wife
as Dora Perkins
(1923) Pleasure Mad
as Elinor Benton
(1920) Torchy's Millions
as (uncredited)
(1922) The Man Who Paid
as Jeanne Thornton
(1919) The Star Boarder
as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)
(1927) The Demi-Bride
as Criquette
(1925) The End of the World
as Mary Ellen Hope
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Norma Shearer
(1920) The Flapper
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
(1925) The End of the World
as Mary Ellen Hope
(1963) Anniversary
as Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)