The Women
1939
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Norma Shearer was an exemplary Canadian actor of the early 1900s who enjoyed a celebrated star status in Hollywood for almost two decades (1924 to 1942). Six times nominated and winner of one Academy Award, Shearer was known for her spunky ingénue on big screen.
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] She and her sister Athole were assisted in their pursuit of show business careers by their mother Edith Fisher Shearer.
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.
Jun 14, 1983 · Norma Shearer, one of the famed Hollywood stars of the 20's and 30's, died of bronchial pneumonia Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., a...
Jan 31, 2013 · 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.
Feb 8, 2022 · Born in 1902 in Montreal to wealthy parents who lost their construction business in World War I, Shearer’s stage mother left her manic-depressive husband and took her two daughters to New York to repair the family fortunes in the fledgling film business.
Actress Born Edith N. Shearer on Aug. 10, 1902 in Montreal, Canada. Died June 12, 1983 of pneumonia in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA. N orma Shearer was one of the last and...
