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Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress, and a major Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942. Her early films cast her as a spunky ingenue, but in the Pre-Code film era, she played sexually liberated women. She excelled in drama, in comedy, and in period roles. She gave well-received performances in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won once, for her performance in the 1930 film The Divorcee.
Shearer's fame declined after her early retirement in 1942. She was rediscovered in the late 1950s, when her films were sold to television, and in the 1970s, when her films enjoyed theatrical revivals. By the time of her death in 1983, she was best known for her "noble" roles in Marie Antoinette and The Women.
A Shearer revival began in 1988, when Turner Network Television began broadcasting the entire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film library. In 1994 Turner Classic Movies began showcasing her films, most of which had not been seen since the reconstitution of the Production Code in 1934. Shearer's work was seen anew, and the critical focus shifted from her "noble" roles to her pre-Code roles.
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Classic scene between two legends
Norma Shearer (the Best Actress Oscar winner) confronts her cheating husband Chester Morris in the 1930 pre-code drama The Divorcee ~ Please visit my blog http://www.classichollywoodbeauties.com
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Louis B. Mayer presents Carl Laemmle the Oscar for Best Picture for "All Quiet on the Western Front," Norma Shearer accepts the Oscar for Best Actress for "The Divorcee," and Jack Cunningham presents the Oscar for Writing to Frances Marion for "The Big House."
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Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922–24 Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional producer...
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American manner." The program featured popular entertainers of that day, such as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Dinah Shore, performing musical numbers and comedy skits to boost the morale of soldiers stationed far from their homes. Lewis added, "To a fellow who has spent months guarding an outpost in the South Seas, Iceland or Africa a cheery greeting from a favorite comedian, a song hit direct from ...
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Norma Shearer gives a speech and records a short film for the USO during World War 2 (at one point she messes up and says "Oh Hell") ~ Please visit my blog http://www.classichollywoodbeauties.com
Classic scene between two legends
A biography on silent and talkie film actress Norma Shearer. The music is If I could tell you by Yanni. Please comment!
Raw interview footage with Mick LaSalle ("Complicated Women") for the TCM documentary, COMPLICATED WOMEN (2003), discussing Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins, Barbara Stanwyck, "Baby Face," "Ladies They Talk About," Pre-Code and Ruth Chatterton
Louis B. Mayer presents Carl Laemmle the Oscar for Best Picture for "All Quiet on the Western Front," Norma Shearer accepts the Oscar for Best Actress for "The Divorcee," and Jack Cunningham presents the Oscar for Writing to Frances Marion for "The Big House."
TCM's Ben Mankiewicz interviews Academy Award-nominated actress and singer Anna Kendrick, introducing The Women (1939), starring Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford, at the El Capitan Theatre, in Hollywood Saturday. Subscribe at http://spr.ly/6017cTBT to watch more great classic film clips every day.
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