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Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer 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).
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entertainment · Canadian-American actress (1902–1983) · model · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Norma Shearer, Edith Norma Shearer, Shearer
Born 10 August 1902 · Died 12 June 1983 · Q95019
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2026· 4 entries
“She looks too well able to take care of herself.”
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“I took that scene lock, stock, and barrel, fur, fins and feathers”
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“ll never make it, he declared, and turned solemnly away.”
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2015· 1 entry
A number of Shearer films became available in high-definition format, authored by Warner Home Video, in most cases, from the nitrate camera negatives: A Free Soul, Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette, and The Women
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2008· 3 entries
Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its "Canadians in Hollywood" series to honour Norma Shearer, along with others for Raymond Burr, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2008).
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Was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame
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1994· 1 entry
Turner Classic Movies began showcasing her films, most of which had not been seen since the reconstitution of the Production Code in 1934
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1988· 1 entry
When Turner Network Television began broadcasting the entire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film library
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1983· 3 entries
Died 1983-06-12.
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Shearer died of bronchial pneumonia at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, where she had been living since 1980
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Was best known for her noble roles in Marie Antoinette and The Women
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1960· 1 entry
Her secretary stated: "Miss Shearer does not want any publicity
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1942· 2 entries
Shearer unofficially retired from acting
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Married Martin Arrougé (March 23, 1914 – August 8, 1999), a World War II Navy aviator, a former ski instructor to her children, 11 years her junior
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1939· 1 entry
Attempted an unusual role in the dark comedy Idiot's Delight, adapted from the 1936 Robert E
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1938· 1 entry
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Marie Antoinette (1938).
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1936· 1 entry
Shearer retained a lawyer to ensure that Thalberg's percentages of films on which he had worked were still paid to his estate, which was contested by MGM
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1934· 1 entry
Forced Shearer to drop her celebrated "free soul" image, and move exclusively into period dramas and "prestige" pictures
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1931· 1 entry
The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1934, Romeo and Juliet in 1936, and Marie Antoinette in 1938
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).
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1927· 1 entry
Were married in the Hollywood wedding of the year
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1923· 1 entry
But had already sent a telegram to Shearer's agent, inviting her to come to the studio
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1918· 1 entry
When her father's company collapsed, and her older sister Athole suffered her first serious mental breakdown
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-08-10.
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