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Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) [2] [3] was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. [4] Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. [5]
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.
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.
Apr 8, 2021 · Norma Shearer was one of Hollywood’s top actresses during the golden age of film. At the start of her career, she was told she would never make it. So, how did she reach stardom? Was it her stellar work ethic or her versatility in switching genres that allowed her to succeed when others couldn’t?
Jul 28, 2024 · Norma Shearer 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.
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...
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.
Jan 13, 2020 · Norma Shearer, a Canadian-American actress who converted to Judaism in 1927 to marry MGM mogul Irving Thalberg, holds the distinction of being not only the first Jewish woman to win an...
Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s.