The Women
1939
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May 31, 2024 · Norma Shearer (born August 1902, Montreal, Quebec, Canada—died June 12, 1983, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.) was an 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. Thalberg.
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4 days ago · That first year at MGM, when she was probably twenty-one years old, Crawford did lots of extra work in movies, even standing in for Norma Shearer in Lady of the Night (1925), where she can be glimpsed for a fraught split second when the two characters that Shearer is playing confront each other in the backseat of a car.
5 days ago · Leslie Howard & Norma Shearer. In 1936, ... Almost 20 years later, Romeo and Juliet was adapted once again in 1954, this time starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey -- marking her only big ...
18yr old Keshia Thomas protects a man with a SS Tattoo and a confederate t-shirt from a anti-Klan protesters in 1996. It was named one of Life magazine's "Pictures of the Year" for 1996. She is credited with saying that you "can't beat goodness into a person".
3 days ago · This arrangement allows the impeccable and swinging Shaw ensemble to shine, driven all the way by their new drummer, the 21 year-old phenom, Buddy Rich. Rich, after working in a number of bands in 1938, most notably Bunny Berigan’s, where he was encouraged to rock, was quickly becoming a virtuoso big band drummer.
1 day ago · President Jimmy Carter later recalled it as "the biggest event to happen in the South in my lifetime". Premieres in New York and Los Angeles followed; the latter attended by some of the actresses who had been considered for the part of Scarlett, among them Paulette Goddard, Norma Shearer, and Joan Crawford.
2 days ago · She made a comeback in 1939 with her role as home-wrecker Crystal Allen in The Women, opposite her professional nemesis, Norma Shearer. A year later, she played against type in the unglamorous role of Julie in Strange Cargo (1940), her eighth—and final—film with Clark Gable.
