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Norma Shearer
Acting
10 Aug 1902
† 12 Jun 1983
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl next door, but for most of the Pre-Code film era, beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies. Later she appeared in...
Also Known As
Edith Norma Shearer, Queen Norma, Norma Sherer, The First Lady of MGM
































