Norma Shearer
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| Name: | Norma Shearer | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 80 (August 10, 1902 -June 12, 1983) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 13.81 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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 historical and period films. Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before. Focus shifted to her pre-Code "divorcee" persona, and Shearer was rediscovered as "the exemplar of sophisticated [1930's] woman-hood... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards". Simultaneously, Shearer's ten-year collaboration with portrait photographer George Hurrell and her lasting contribution to fashion through the designs of Adrian were also recognized. Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
A Free Soul
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smokingsides
Nice light up with a couple of drags 28 minutes in, receives light from Clark Gable one hour into [the] film with nice subsequent exhale. |
Idiot's Delight
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smokingsides
Several scenes in the latter half of the movie, using a holder. She looks kind of odd with that blonde wig she's wearing though. |
Private Lives
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smokingsides
Two scenes, both starting with lightups. First scene is around 25 mins in, and has 5 inhale/exhales. Exhales are pretty visible and decent, with several nose or nose/mouth exhales. The second scene around 50 mins is not as good. Has 4 inhale/exhales, but the exhales are much weaker here. |
Strange Interlude
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smokingsides
Several scenes - One great nose exhale shot |
The Women
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smokingsides
Russell smokes in three scenes with a faint talk-exhale in one of them. Shearer performs two close-up lightings, inhaling only from the second. Crawford picks up a smouldering cigarette from an ashtray, takes a drag, and talks for a few seconds before exhaling. In other scenes she taps her cigarette before lighting, and hooks her smoke down real deep in classic style while relaxing in a bubble bath. For me, though, Goddard steals the show with a cool lighting, but she spoils it by not inhaling. |
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smokingsides
both share a joint about an hour into the movie. Visible drags from Meg Ryan, exhale cannot be seen due to the lighting. Midler takes a few drags and there are a couple of visible snap inhales, but the exhales are nothing to write home about. |
Their Own Desire
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smokingsides
Shearer had about two scenes, Millard one |
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