Norma Shearer

Also known as Edith Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)

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Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who became one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the silent film era and early sound pictures in the 1920s and 1930s. She is remembered as a pioneering female performer who achieved significant fame and influence during the formative decades of cinema.

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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…

Known for

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year2023
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn — Self (archive footage)2015
Vito — Self (archive)2011
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — Various Roles (archive footage)2008
Checking Out: Grand Hotel — Self (archive footage)2004
Judy Garland: By Myself — Self (archive footage)2004
Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)2003
Sports on the Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)1997
Joan Crawford: Always the Star — Self (archive footage)1996
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell — Self (archive footage)1995

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Edith
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Montreal
Sibling: Athole Shearer
Occupation: actor
Political party: Republican Party (United States)
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Christianity
Award: Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Field of work: acting
Image: Norma Shearer portrait (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Norma Shearer
date of birth: 1900-08-10
date of death: 1983-06-12
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress
place of burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Commons gallery: Norma Shearer
manner of death: natural causes
name in native language: Norma Shearer
cause of death: bronchopneumonia
start of work period: 1920-00-00
end of work period: 1942-00-00
writing language: English language
birth name: Edith Norma Shearer

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Encyclopedic overview

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, was nominated six times in all, and won one for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).

Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".

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