Norma Shearer
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Norma Shearer
*August 10, 1902 Montréal, Canada
as Edith Norma Shearer
June 12, 1983 Woodland Hills, California, USA

Canadian actress, popular from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Winner of an Academy Award for The Divorcee.

Films

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

1988

Nuovo cinema Paradiso

1942

We Were Dancing

1940

Escape

1939

The Women
Idiot's Delight

1938

Marie Antoinette

1936

Romeo and Juliet

1934

Riptide
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1933

Going Hollywood

1932

Strange Interlude
Smilin' Through

1931

The Slippery Pearls
Strangers May Kiss
A Free Soul
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
Private Lives

1930

The Divorcee

1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Their Own Desire

1928

The Latest from Paris
The Actress
A Lady of Chance

1927

After Midnight
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

1926

The Devil's Circus

1925

Excuse Me
Pretty Ladies
A Slave of Fashion
Lady of the Night
His Secretary
The Tower of Lies
Waking Up the Town

1924

Married Flirts
He Who Gets Slapped

1923

Lucretia Lombard

1920

Way Down East


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Books on Norma Shearer
Gavin Lambert
Norma Shearer
London, 1990

Lawrence J. Quirk
Norma, The Story of Norma Shearer
, 1988

Jack Jacobs and Myron Braum
The films of Norma Shearer
South Brunswick, 1976
Books with substantial mentioning of Norma Shearer
Jeanine Basinger
The Star Machine
, 2007


Leading Ladies, The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Area
, 2006

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
The MGM Stock Company, The Golden Era
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor)
Stars of the Screen 1931, A volume of biographies of contemporary actors and actresses engaged in photoplay throughout the world
London, [1931]
Books with an entry on Norma Shearer
Denise Lowe
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930
New York, London, Oxford, 2005

David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Martin J. Quigley (ed.)
The Motion Picture Almanac, Big Stars in Big Pictures
Chicago, Ill., 1929

Charles Donald Fox
Mirrors of Hollywood, with brief biographies of favorite film folk
New York, 1925
Books with photograph(s) of Norma Shearer
John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978