Sister of Athole Shearer and twelve time Academy Award winning sound chief Douglas Shearer
Little girl of Edith Shearer.
Indeed, even after retirement, Norma kept up with her advantage in the entertainment world. While remaining at a ski hold up, she saw a photograph of the assistant's little girl and prescribed her to MGM - that young lady, turned into the star known as Janet Leigh. She additionally found an attractive youthful finance manager alongside a pool - presently entertainer/maker Robert Evans.
Entombed at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction, close by her first spouse Irving Thalberg.
Sister-in-law of John Ward.
Sister-in-law of Howard Hawks.
Previous relative of Richard Anderson.
At the stature of her profession, she was procuring $6,000 each week.
F. Scott Fitzgerald based one of his most renowned stories, "Insane Sunday," on a party facilitated by Shearer, who likewise roused the story's principle character, Stella Calman.
Six years after the demise of first spouse Irving Thalberg, she wedded a ski teacher 11 years her lesser and resigned from the screen until the end of time.
Turned down the job of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and the lead spot in Mrs. Miniver (1942).
Her child passed on in 1988 of malignant growth. He was a way of thinking teacher at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her girl kicked the bucket in 2006 of malignant growth. A vegetarian, she headed the Society for Animal Rights in Aspen, Colorado, from 1989.
Was careful with regards to her appearance. Right off the bat in her profession, she burned through cash she could scarcely bear on the administrations on an eye specialist, who prepared her to reinforce a powerless eye. She swam regular, had back rubs to firm her figure, and consumed less calories strictly. She tried different things with make-up until she settled on a light tone that would enlighten her face on screen.
Account in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 726-728. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
She is one of the superstars whose image Anne Frank put on the mass of her room in the "Secret Annex" while secluded from everything during the Nazi control of Amsterdam.
She and her sibling Douglas Shearer were the primary Oscar-winning sibling and sister.
In 1927, she demanded terminating the chief Viktor Tourjansky in light of the fact that he was uncertain of her cross-peered toward gaze.
She would not eliminate her wedding band for a job, liking to cover it up with tissue shaded tape.
She is celebrated on one of a bunch of postage stamps (gave in 2008) respecting noticeable Canadians in Hollywood. Different stamps include Marie Dressler, Chief Dan George and Raymond Burr.
Her children in-law were skier Jack Reddish, entertainer Richard Anderson, and Aspen city chairman Bill Stirling.
She has three granddaughters from her little girl: Ashley (b. around 1962), Brooke (b. around 1964), and Deva (b. around 1966).
Was offered the job of Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950), yet she turned it down. Gloria Swanson, who proceeded to get a Best Actress Oscar assignment for her exhibition, was projected all things being equal.
Said to have been a significant impact on the existence of Eva Perón after Peron saw her in the job of Marie Antoinette.
She changed over to Judaism in 1927 to wed Irving Thalberg. Indeed, even after he kicked the bucket, she kept on noticing Judaism until her own demise in 1983.
Was a firm safe Republican who was dynamic in the official mission of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Turned into a naturalized United States resident in 1931.
Was the third entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930) at The third Academy Awards on November 5, 1930.
She is the main entertainer to depict Juliet [Romeo and Juliet (1936)] and Marie Antoinette [Marie Antoinette (1938)] on screen and get Academy Award assignments [Best Actress] for the two exhibitions.
Was the second of 3 back to back Canadian entertainers to win the Best Actress Oscar. The others were Mary Pickford and Marie Dressler.
Norma Shearer was considered by her companions as the Queen of MGM Studios.
Brought forth her first kid at age 28, a child Irving Thalberg Jr on August 24, 1930. Kid's dad was her first spouse, Irving Thalberg.
Brought forth her second kid at age 32, a girl Katherine Thalberg on June 14, 1935. Kid's dad was her first spouse, Irving Thalberg.
Is one of 9 entertainers who have gotten an Academy Award assignment for depicting a genuine sovereign. The others in sequential request are Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Vanessa Redgrave for Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech (2010).
The bustling Shearer made eight movies in 1924.
With respect to's union with studio supervisor Irving Thalberg, Joan Crawford purportedly said, "Sure Norma gets every one of the great parts. She lays down with the boss...".
Showed up with mother Edith Shearer in "A Clouded Name" in 1924.
After Shearer and spouse Irving Thalberg played host to creator F. Scott Fitzgerald at their Santa Monica ocean side house, it became fictionalized in the writer's book "Insane Sunday" and the incomplete "The Last Tycoon.".
Featured in five Oscar Best Picture chosen people: The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929), The Divorcee (1930), Smilin' Through (1932), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Romeo and Juliet (1936). She was designated for Best Actress in three of these: The Divorcee (which she won), The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Romeo and Juliet.
Was the earliest entertainer of any orientation to acquire three, four, five and six Oscar selections for her acting exhibitions.
While doing investigate in the twentieth Century-Fox chronicles for her history of Natalie Wood, creator Suzanne Finstead found that Norma Shearer was one of the early projecting thoughts for the job of Lucy Muir in "The phantom and Mrs. Muir" (1947). Had she filled the role, it would have checked Miss Shearer's re-visitation of the screen following a long term break. (As things stood, Miss Shearer's last film was 1942's "Her cardboard lover.").
On August 10, 2020, she was respected with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars. The date would likewise have been Shearer's birthday.
Co-featured with Robert Montgomery in five MGM films: Their Own Desire (1929), The Divorcee (1930), Strangers May Kiss (1931), Private Lives (1931), and Riptide (1934).
She is the primary entertainer to get an Academy Award selection for assuming a Shakespearian part ([title=0028203]).
Born August 10, 1902 in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Died June 12, 1983 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease)
Birth Name Edith Norma Shearer
Nicknames The First Lady Of MGM
Queen Norma
Height 5' 1" (1.55 m)
List of Norma Shearer Movies
- Voices Across the Sea
- The Trial of Mary Dugan
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Their Own Desire
- Strangers May Kiss
- A Free Soul
- Private Lives
- The Stolen Jools
- Riptide
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- Romeo and Juliet
- Mr. Will Shakespeare
- Marie Antoinette
- Hollywood Goes to Town
- The Women
- Escape
- We Were Dancing
- Her Cardboard Lover
- Anniversary and so on..
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