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Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Actress for her performance in the 1930 film The Divorcee.
Birth Name
Edith Norma Shearer
Born
Sunday, 10 August 1902
Died
Sunday, 12 June 1983
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Movies | Self | 2019 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | Self | 2013 |
| Vito | Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary | 2011 |
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles / Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Girl 27 | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2002 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Movies | Self | 2019 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | Self | 2013 |
| Vito | Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary | 2011 |
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles / Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Girl 27 | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2002 |
| Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream | Self | 1998 |
| Sports on the Silver Screen | Self | 1997 |
| Joan Crawford: Always the Star | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 1996 |
| That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) / Marie Antoinette | 1994 |
| L'oeil de Vichy | Undetermined Film Role: Dancing | 1993 |
| Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990 |
| American Experience | Self | 1988 |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self / (archive footage) | 1988 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
| Hollywood | Self | 1980 |
| That's Entertainment! | Irene | 1974 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| The Happy Ending | Self - Actress in 'Smilin' Through' | 1969 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Herself | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Self | 1961 |
| MGM Parade | Jan Ashe | 1955 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| Some of the Best | Jan Ashe | 1944 |
| Her Cardboard Lover | Consuelo Croyden | 1942 |
| We Were Dancing | Vicki Wilomirska / Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska | 1942 |
| Escape | Countess von Treck / Countess Ruby von Treck | 1940 |
| The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Herself / Self | 1940 |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940 |
| The Women | Mrs. Stephen Haines (Mary) / Mary Haines | 1939 |
| From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939 |
| Idiot's Delight | Irene / Irene Fellara | 1939 |
| Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette | 1938 |
| Hollywood Goes to Town | Herself / Self | 1938 |
| Another Romance of Celluloid | Self | 1938 |
| The Romance of Celluloid | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1937 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Juliet - Daughter to Capulet / Juliet | 1936 |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Elizabeth Barrett | 1934 |
| Riptide | Mary / Lady Mary Rexford | 1934 |
| Going Hollywood | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) / Self | 1933 |
| March of the Movies | Self | 1933 |
| Strange Interlude | Nina Leeds | 1932 |
| Smilin' Through | Kathleen / Moonyean Clare / Moonyeen | 1932 |
| The Movie Album | Self | 1932 |
| The Christmas Party | Norma Shearer / Herself | 1931 |
| Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | 1931 |
| A Free Soul | Jan Ashe | 1931 |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | Self | 1931 |
| Strangers May Kiss | Lisbeth / Lisbeth Corbin | 1931 |
| The Stolen Jools | Owner of Stolen Jewels | 1931 |
| Let Us Be Gay | Kitty Brown | 1930 |
| The Divorcee | Jerry / Jerry Martin | 1930 |
| Their Own Desire | Lally / Lucia 'Lally' Marlett | 1929 |
| The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Norma Shearer / Juliet / Self | 1929 |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Fay Cheyney | 1929 |
| The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mary Elizabeth Dugan | 1929 |
| A Lady of Chance | Dolly Morgan aka Angel Face / Dolly Morgan | 1928 |
| The Actress | Rose Trelawny | 1928 |
| The Latest from Paris | Ann Dolan | 1928 |
| The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Kathi | 1927 |
| After Midnight | Mary Miller | 1927 |
| The Demi-Bride | Criquette | 1927 |
| Upstage | Dolly Haven | 1926 |
| The Waning Sex | Nina Duane | 1926 |
| The Devil's Circus | Mary | 1926 |
| The Tower of Lies | Glory or Goldie / Glory/Goldie | 1925 |
| Pretty Ladies | Frances White | 1925 |
| 1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925 |
| Waking Up the Town | Mary Ellen Hope | 1925 |
| Lady of the Night | Florence Banning / Molly Helmer | 1925 |
| He Who Gets Slapped | Consuelo | 1924 |
| Married Flirts | Norma Shearer | 1924 |
| Broken Barriers | Grace Durland | 1924 |
| Broadway After Dark | Rose Dulane | 1924 |
| The Wolf Man | Elizabeth Gordon | 1923 |
| Lucretia Lombard | Mimi Winship | 1923 |
| The Wanters | Marjorie | 1923 |
| Man and Wife | Dora Perkins | 1923 |
| A Clouded Name | Marjorie Dare | 1923 |
| Channing of the Northwest | Jess Driscoll | 1922 |
| The Stealers | Julie Martin | 1920 |
| The Restless Sex | Reveler at Artists Ball | 1920 |
| Way Down East | Barn Dancer | 1920 |
| The Flapper | Schoolgirl / Schoolgirl (Uncredited) | 1920 |
| The Star Boarder | Big V Beauty Squad Member | 1919 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1939 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1937 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1935 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1931 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
