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Apr 10, 2018 · Public Domain. On November 5, 1930, at the third annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, Norma Shearer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee, a film about a love triangle in a posh New York inner circle. This was her first nomination and the first win for a Jewish American woman.
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille and The Good Earth.
Oct 14, 2023 · Norma Shearer historian and collector Darin Barneswill present “The Life & Unexpected Legacy of Norma Shearer” a talk that will explore why Golden Age of Hollywood actress Shearer should have never been a film actress, let alone a superstar. Director D.W. Griffith said her eyes, one of which tended to cross when she was tired, were too blue ...
The Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 (along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer), as one of five pre-Code films in the "TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2" DVD box set. Other movies with the same title were released in 1917, 1919, and 1969.
Athole Shearer (sister) Douglas Shearer (brither) Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – Juin 12, 1983) [2] wis a Canadian-American actress an Hollywood starn frae 1925 throu 1942. [3] Her early films cast her as a spunky ingenue, but in the pre-Code film era, she played sexually liberatit weemen. She excelled in drama, comedy, an period roles.
Jan 31, 2013 · Norma Shearer, actor (born 11 August 1902 in Montréal, QC; died 12 June 1983 in Los Angeles, California). Norma Shearer, the daughter of a wealthy Montréal businessman, landed her debut role at MGM in 1920 after a successful modelling career in New York City. Although elegant and goodlooking, she was not the most beautiful woman on the MGM ...
