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Edith Norma Shearer
Queen Norma
Norma Sherer
The First Lady of MGM
Norma Shearer
Acting
Biography
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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. Her early films cast her as the girl next door, but for most of the Pre-Code film era, beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies. Later she appeared in historical and period films.
Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steepl…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
