Biography: Norma Shearer |
The winner of a beauty contest at 14, she was born into a wealthy family that lost everything in the 1910s. Her mother brought her to New York in the hope that show business might provide the family with money. Shearer failed an audition with Florenze... more
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Tags: Romance Musical Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 93min
No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her Cardboard Lover as her final film. Set in Florida, the creaky plotline finds Consuelo Croyden (Shearer) attempting to make her...
Cast: Norma Shearer
Tags: War Thriller Adventure War Drama
Length: 104min
Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla Nazimova). The mother has been imprisoned in a German concentration camp, compelling her son to ignore America's neutrality and...
Cast: Rosalind Russell Joan Crawford
Tags: Film a Clef Sophisticated Comedy Comedy Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 133min
Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and...
Cast: Clark Gable
Tags: War Romance Drama
Length: 107min
Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Idiot's Delight starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway. Set in a lavish alpine hotel bordering an Italian air base, the story throws together several disparate people, each in his or her own...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 95min
Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We Were Dancing. Loosely based on two Noel Coward playlets originally presented as part of the omnibus production Tonight at 8:30,...
Cast: Tyrone Power
Tags: Romance Historical Film Drama Historical Epic Biopic
Length: 160min
M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert...
Tags: Melodrama Marriage Drama Drama Romance
Length: 90min
A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip Tide is a standard-issue Norma Shearer soap opera. Shearer plays Mary, a footloose and fancy-free American heiress who weds...
Cast: George Cukor
Tags: Tragedy Romance Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 126min
Director George Cukor and producer Irving G. Thalberg's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a lavish production of Shakespeare's tale about two star-crossed lovers, is extremely well-produced and acted. In fact, it is so well-done, that it is easy to...
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Cast: Charles Laughton
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Biopic Drama
Length: 110min
Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely confined to her bed. Elizabeth has little company beyond her dog and her obsessively protective father, Edward Moulton Barrett...
Cast: Fredric March
Length: 100min
Director Sidney Franklin originally adapted Jane Murfin and Jane Cowl's play +Smilin' Through for the silver screen in a 1922 silent film starring Norma Talmadge and (the other) Harrison Ford. Remaking his own film, Franklin directed Norma Shearer in...
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