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The Divorcee: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery. When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
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- Romance, Drama
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1930-04-19
Norma Shearer, Thalberg's wife, originally was not in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she did not have enough sex appeal. Only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with independent portrait photographer George Hurrell, and Thalberg saw the result, did he relent and give her the role.
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Ex-Wife, 1929 novel, by Ursula Parrott
Norma Shearer (as "Jerry") with all three of her will-be lovers, Ted (Chester Morris), whom she's about to marry, and Don (Robert Montgomery) and Paul (Conrad Nagel) who'll come later, in an early scene from The Divorcee, 1930.
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Norma 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.
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- Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Feb 17, 2016 · Norma Shearer triumphs as both the adoring wife and controversial divorcee. She is bubbly and fluid and surprising alluring in her golden, revealing costumes towards the end of the film. Her performance centered the film and was a good choice for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. ...
Jul 13, 2018 · In the end, the career of Norma Shearer was largely defined by divorce. Playing a divorcee in one film was the first bookend of her era as a Hollywood megastar while playing a divorcee in another signaled the end of her reign as MGM’s Queen of the Lot.
