NORMA SHEARER TRIBUTE

Canadian-born actress Norma Shearer won the Academy awards for best Actress for the movie The Divorcee (1930)

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[twilson11208]

She was so CHIC. NO one could wear clothes the wasy she did. Stunning elegance. Class in it's purest form.

[defundthewar]

Crawford called Norma cross-eyed and knock-kneed, among more unprintable things, but I think it was strictly Joan's jealousy talking. Norma is stunning, and not just in the glamour shots. My favorite is the very last one, wearing something very close to a man's suit, out-Dietriching Dietrich. I've never seen a bad photo of Norma, period.

[wilshirejohn1]

The QUEEN!

[MrFalconford]

we will certainly acknowledge Norma protograhed beautifully, but the music chosen for this tribute is certainly not for this wonderful actress

[dvlaries]

@sanjac07 {{blush}} I've had it since April, and thank you. Vieira's book finally was the first with access to Norma's own manuscript that she was working on in the 1950s for a book of her own that was never completed. Till someone writes a better one, I consider Gavin Lambert's 1990 "Norma Shearer" the definitive biography on her, but Mick LaSalle's 2000 "Complicated Woman" also does a fantastic and heroic job of spotlighting and restoring the pre-Code Norma as the trailblazer she then was.

[sanjac07]

@dvlaries I highly reccomend Mark A Vieira's book called "Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince" you'll find a ton of information on Norma's life and career. Also Lawrence Quirk did a autobiography on Norma.

[defundthewar]

@dvlaries I think it's usually difficult or impossible to really know about these scarred childhoods of the

famous. After all, no biographers were around when certain stars were around, or even many witnessess within close proximity. So most of what we know are what the stars say. I'll give 2 examples- Sinatra would tell everyone how impoverished he was in Hoboken. Not true. Garland would make up the most outrageous tales about her mother. And so I'm not so sure about Joan's troubles.

[dvlaries]

@defundthewar I agree, and Crawford's jealousy extended to Jean Harlow too. Crawford was a fine actress, a true star, an industrious and prolific worker, and equal in that every sense to Norma, Jean, Garbo and all actresses who toiled in the MGM 'factory' of that time. But a scarred childhood had left Crawford with a deeply-embedded, unshakeable insecurity that fostered a guarded and distrustful nature. A shame really because, success or not, Crawford was only ever fleetingly happy.

[dvlaries]

Since the 1990s, authors Gavin Lambert and Mick LaSalle have been doing the overdue, heroic work needed to restore this neglected actress's legend. Look up their works at amazon if you truly love Norma, and read them if you can get copies. Nobody who reads the tale of how the widowed Norma shrewdly wrestled Louis B. Mayer -who tried to swindle her out of Irving Thalberg's share of their profit deal- will ever think of Norma as insubstantial again. The woman was no one's shrinking violet.

[ayakothecolorkid]

She was born on the 10 august , the same day I was born

[haseleyes1]

what a classic beauty.

[ForCarolToEnjoy]

Thank you for the wonderful tributes you are creating for us to enjoy on YT I happen to be a fan of Norma Shearer