Norma Shearer

    Norma Shearer

    10. august 1902 (124 aastat), 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 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 steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before. Focus shifted to her pre-Code "divorcee" persona, and Shearer was rediscovered as "the exemplar of sophisticated [1930's] woman-hood... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards". Simultaneously, Shearer's ten-year collaboration with portrait photographer George Hurrell and her lasting contribution to fashion through the designs of Adrian were also recognized. Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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    MGM Parade plakat 7.5

    MGM Parade

    1955
    Marie Antoinette plakat 6.6

    Marie Antoinette

    1938
    That's Entertainment! plakat 7.4

    That's Entertainment!

    1974
    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage plakat 7.0

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    1983
    The Women plakat 7.2

    The Women

    1939
    That's Entertainment! III plakat 7.1

    That's Entertainment! III

    1994
    Teekond itta plakat 6.9

    Teekond itta

    1920
    Twenty Years After plakat 8.0

    Twenty Years After

    1944
    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind plakat 8.2

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    1988
    The Barretts of Wimpole Street plakat 6.2

    The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    1934
    Idiot's Delight plakat 6.1

    Idiot's Delight

    1939
    Romeo and Juliet plakat 6.3

    Romeo and Juliet

    1936

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