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Norma Shearer
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| Nickname: | The First Lady Of MGM / Queen Norma |
| Known for: | The Women, Marie Antoinette, The Divorcee |
| Birth name: | Edith Norma Shearer |
| Birthday: | 10 August 1902, Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Height: | 5' 1" (1.55 m) |
| Available Photos | 39 |
| Wallpapers | 2 |
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Trivia
Children, with Thalberg, Irving Jr. (b. 1930) and Katherine (b. 1935)
Sister of Athole Shearer and twelve time Academy Award winning sound director Douglas Shearer
Daughter of Edith Shearer
Even after retirement, Norma maintained her interest in the film industry. While staying at a ski lodge, she noticed a photo of the receptionist's daughter and recommended her to MGM - that girl, became the star known as Janet Leigh. She also discovered a handsome young businessman beside a swimming pool - now actor/producer Robert Evans.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction.
Sister-in-law of John Ward.
Sister-in-law of Howard Hawks.
Former mother-in-law of Richard Anderson.
At the height of her career, she was earning $6,000 per week.
F. Scott Fitzgerald based one of his most famous stories, "Crazy Sunday", on a party hosted by Shearer, who also inspired the story's main character, Stella Calman.
Six years after the death of first husband Irving Thalberg, she married a ski instructor 20 years her junior and retired from the screen forever.
Turned down the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and the title role in Mrs. Miniver.
Her son died in 1988 of cancer. He was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her daughter died in 2006 of cancer. A vegan, she headed the Society for Animal Rights in Aspen, Colorado from 1989.
Was meticulous about her appearance. Early in her career, she spent money she could barely afford on the services on an eye doctor, who trained her to strengthen a weak eye. She swam everyday, had massages to firm her figure, and dieted religiously. She experimented with makeup until she decided on a light tone that would illuminated her face on screen.
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