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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
2015·9.0
Vito
2011·6.9
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008·6.1
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004·8.3
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004·7.0
Complicated Women
2003·6.9
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997·9.0
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996·7.5
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995·2.0
That's Entertainment! III
1994·7.0
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990·0.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988·8.2
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983·7.0
That's Entertainment!
1974·7.4
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972·7.3
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970·0.0
Anniversary
1963·9.0
Twenty Years After
1944·8.0
Her Cardboard Lover
1942·4.9
We Were Dancing
1942·4.3
Escape
1940·7.5
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940·6.8
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940·6.3
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940·5.8
The Women
1939·7.2
From the Ends of the Earth
1939·5.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939·4.0
Idiot's Delight
1939·6.1
Marie Antoinette
1938·6.6
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938·7.0
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938·5.3
The Romance of Celluloid
1937·7.0
Romeo and Juliet
1936·6.3
Master Will Shakespeare
1936·5.8
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934·6.2
Riptide
1934·6.7
Going Hollywood
1933·5.5
The Film Parade
1933·8.0
Strange Interlude
1932·5.6
Smilin' Through
1932·5.9
The Movie Album
1932·7.5
The Christmas Party
1931·5.4
Private Lives
1931·6.5
We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931·5.2
A Free Soul
1931·6.1
The Stolen Jools
1931·5.6
Strangers May Kiss
1931·5.2
Let Us Be Gay
1930·4.1
The Divorcee
1930·6.2
Their Own Desire
1929·5.1
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929·5.9
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929·6.0
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929·6.4
A Man's Man
1929·8.0
A Lady of Chance
1928·6.5
The Actress
1928·10.0
The Latest from Paris
1928·8.0
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928·7.2
After Midnight
1927·8.5
The Demi-Bride
1927·8.0
Upstage
1926·7.3
The Waning Sex
1926·6.8
The Devil's Circus
1926·6.8
His Secretary
1925·7.0
The Tower of Lies
1925·10.0
Pretty Ladies
1925·5.8
A Slave of Fashion
1925·6.0
1925 Studio Tour
1925·6.3
The End of the World
1925·8.0
The End of the World
1925·0.0
Waking Up the Town
1925·8.0
Lady of the Night
1925·5.8
Excuse Me
1925·8.0
He Who Gets Slapped
1924·7.6
The Snob
1924·7.0
Married Flirts
1924·9.0
Broken Barriers
1924·3.7
Empty Hands
1924·9.0
Broadway After Dark
1924·10.0
Blue Water
1924·8.0
The Wolf Man
1924·7.0
The Trail of the Law
1924·7.0
Lucretia Lombard
1923·7.0
The Wanters
1923·8.0
Pleasure Mad
1923·8.0
The Devil's Partner
1923·9.0
Man and Wife
1923·7.0
A Clouded Name
1923·8.0
Channing of the Northwest
1922·10.0
The Taming of the Shrewd
1922·0.0
The Bootleggers
1922·7.0
The Man Who Paid
1922·10.0
The Restless Sex
1920·7.0
Torchy's Millions
1920·8.0
The Stealers
1920·10.0
Way Down East
1920·6.9
The Flapper
1920·6.2
The Star Boarder
1919·7.3