Norma Shearer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1902-08-10 (81 years old)

Deathday

1983-06-12

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Norma Shearer

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 historical and period films. Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 19...

Acting

1939

The Women

as Mary Haines

1929

1924

The Wolf Man

as Elizabeth Gordon

1924

1924

Empty Hands

as Claire Endicott

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Marie Antoinette

1939

Idiot's Delight

as Irene Fellara

1936

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Elizabeth Barrett

1922

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

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)

1927

After Midnight

as Mary Miller

1934

Riptide

as Lady Mary Rexford

2007

Girl 27

as Self (archive footage)

1942

We Were Dancing

as Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska

1923

Lucretia Lombard

as Mimi Winship

1929

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

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)

1925

1920

The Restless Sex

as Reveler at Artists Ball (uncredited)

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

as Self (archive footage)

1937

The Romance of Celluloid

as Self (archive footage)

1925

Waking Up the Town

as Mary Ellen Hope

1928

1924

The Snob

as Nancy Claxton

1925

A Slave of Fashion

as Katherine Emerson

2004

Judy Garland: By Myself

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1988

1933

The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1938

Another Romance of Celluloid

as Self (uncredited)

2019

1936

Master Will Shakespeare

as Juliet (uncredited)

1925

His Secretary

as Ruth Lawrence

1924

Blue Water

as Lillian Denton

1922

The Man Who Paid

as Jeanne Thornton

1919

The Star Boarder

as Big V Beauty Squad Member (uncredited)

1922

1923

1922

The Bootleggers

as Helen Barnes

1920

Torchy's Millions

as (uncredited)

1920

The Stealers

as Julie Martin

1923

Man and Wife

as Dora Perkins

1924

The Trail of the Law

as Jerry Vardon

1925

Excuse Me

as Marjorie Newton

1924

Broken Barriers

as Grace Durland

1923

The Wanters

as Marjorie

1925

The End of the World

as Mary Ellen Hope

1923

Pleasure Mad

as Elinor Benton

1927

The Demi-Bride

as Criquette

1920

The Flapper

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

1925

The End of the World

as Mary Ellen Hope

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