The Women
1939
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Jun 14, 1983 · Miss Shearer kept some of her down-to-earth style in later years, even after Mr. Thalberg's death of pneumonia in 1937 had made her rich; he left her and their two children $4.5 million.
Apr 23, 2024 · Last Updated: Apr 23, 2024 • Article History. Chester Morris and Norma Shearer in The Divorcee. In full: Edith Norma Shearer. Born: August 1902, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Died: June 12, 1983, Woodland Hills, California, U.S. (aged 80) Awards And Honors: Academy Award (1931): Actress in a Leading Role. Notable Family Members: spouse Irving Thalberg.
Norma Shearer. Actress: The Divorcee. She won a beauty contest at age fourteen. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister Athole Shearer (Mrs. Howard Hawks) to New York. Ziegfeld rejected her for his "Follies," but she got work as an extra in several movies.
3 Three years later, her association with the deer is revived for her cameo shot at the beginning of The Women (1939): an animal precedes each main character’s cameo, symbolizing each woman’s role for the audience. While a deer personifies Shearer’s face, Crawford’s animal image is a cheetah.
Contents. hide. (Top) Silent films: 1919–1928. Sound films: 1928–1963. Bibliography. References. Norma Shearer filmography. Norma Shearer on the January 1936 cover of Photoplay magazine. Norma Shearer (1902–1983) was a Canadian American film actress who was nominated five times for an Academy Award. [1] .
Feb 8, 2022 · Yet by dint of perseverance and determination (and a doctor who fixed her eye condition), Norma Shearer became the “First Lady of the Screen,” married a studio boss, and was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the late 1920s and ‘30s, nominated six times for an Academy Award, winning one in 1930.
Known as the “Queen of MGM”, Norma Shearer appeared in over 60 films throughout her 23-year career. Norma successfully transitioned from silent films to talkies in the late 1920s and became one of the most popular actresses in early Hollywood. Norma is remembered for being a strong-willed woman.
