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I have created areas devoted to my favorite Norma Shearer films as listed below, click on the links to visit them: |
Featured
films: | Read more about Norma's life by purchasing the books below. |
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GALLERY Page 1- Biographical Photos
| Norma's Early Life | |||
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Norma at age 3 |
with Jean Arthur, 1925 |
Norma and her mother |
Norma with mother Edith, and her sister Athole,
1928 |
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| Norma in her firdt movie role, The Flapper | Norma in her firdt movie role, The Flapper | Norma in the mid 1920's |
becoming a US citizen, 1932 |
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The home photos at the left are here courtesy of Derek Chin, a member of the Yahoo Group dedicated to Norma, "The Shearer Profile". |
| 507 Grosvenor St. Montreal. Where Norma lived as a child. | 507 Grosvenor St. Montreal | 507 Grosvenor St. Montreal | |
| Life at MGM and marriage to Irving Thalberg | |||
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At a premiere with King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman,
Irving Thalberg, Greta Garbo and John Gilbert |
At San Simeon. Norma and Irving are on the
right. |
with Basil Rathbone and his wife at a Masquerade Party at the Rathbones | at a Masquerade Party at the Rathbones |
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in costume |
Wedding - September 29, 1927 |
Wedding - September 29, 1927 |
Wedding - September 29, 1927 |
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Wedding - September 29, 1927 |
En route with the Hal Roache's |
with L.B. Mayer and Irving | L.B. Mayer welcomes the Thalbergs back to MGM,
1933 |
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In Heidelberg with Mother Ernst |
Embark from San Pedro |
Out in NYC, 1939 with Dolores Del Rio, Cedric
Gibbons and Sir Adrian Baillie |
on set of Escape with Robert Taylor, Mervyn
LeRoy, Lawrence Weingarten, and Alla Nazimova |
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at the premiere of Romeo & Juliet with
Leslie Howard |
with L.B. Mayer, first outing as a widow, 1937 |
with Heda Hopper |
at the wedding of Sylvia Thalberg |
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at the opening of the Ice Follies with Douglas
Fairbanks, James Stewart and Merle Oberon |
with Tyrone Power at Hollywood premiere of
Marie Antoinetts, 1938 |
Norma and Joan Crawford, arch rivals |
At the Actors Fund Benefit, 1936 |
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Newlyweds Jean Harlow and Paul Bern at the
cake with the Thalbergs and her mother and stepfather. |
with Ben Lyon and Joe Schenck on his yacht |
at Pickfair with Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks, 1932 |
At the academy Awards |
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Getting the oscar from Conrad Nagel, 1931 |
Getting the oscare from Conrad Nagel, 1931 | with Thomas Mitchell and Edward G. Robinson |
with Mr. & Mrs. Frederic March, 1935 |
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on the set of Romeo & Juliet |
in 1936 with David Niven and Merle Oberon |
with Marlene Dietrich and Max Reinhardt in
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Party at Gary Cooper's with Leslie Howard,
Elsa Maxwell adn Lionel Barrymore |
| The Happy Family | |||
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with husband, Irving Thalberg |
with husband, Irving Thalberg |
with husband, Irving Thalberg |
At the Hollywood premiere of The Great Ziegfeld,
April 1936 |
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| The Thalberg's house in Santa Monica | Other view of Santa Monica house | Other view of Santa Monica house | Other view of Santa Monica house |
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on the beach |
with Irving, Jr., 1931 | with Irving, Katherine and Irving Jr., 1935 |
Mama and Papa with Irving, Jr. |
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The home above photos and those at the left are here courtesy of Derek Chin, a member of the Yahoo Group dedicated to Norma, "The Shearer Profile". |
with Irving, Jr. |
Norma's footprints at Grauman's
Chinese Theater |
Her star on Hollywood Boulevard |
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| Later Life | |||
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with Van Johnson and her discovery Janet Leigh
in 1947 |
with George Raft, 1939 |
with her second love, Martin Arrouge |
with her second love, Martin Arrouge |
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at her wedding to Martin Arrouge, 1942 |
at her wedding to Martin Arrouge, 1942 |
primping on the set of We Were Dancine, 1942 |
with second husband in Sun Valley in 1960 |
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in front of her beach house
in Santa Monica, 1943 |
with Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger at the opening of Young Bess | with Robert Evans, the actor
she shose to play Irving Thalberg in, The Man of a Thousand Faces |
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