Norma Shearer

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Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingénues. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930). Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".

Birth and Death Data: Born August 10, 1900 (Montreal), Died June 12, 1983 (Woodland Hills)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1931

Roles Represented in DAHR: speaker

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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role	Audio
Victor	PCVE-68308	12-in.	9/1/1931	Test for Miss Norma Shearer	Norma Shearer	Dubbed recording : Talk	speaker

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Shearer, Norma," accessed November 12, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/104954.

Shearer, Norma. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 12, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/104954.

"Shearer, Norma." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 12 November 2024.