kathrine
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Post by kathrine on Aug 4, 2006 5:31:41 GMT -5
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Post by Jess on Aug 4, 2006 21:53:22 GMT -5
I love Norma I've seen her in He Who Gets Slapped, The Divorcee, A Free Soul, Marie Antoinette (my favorite with her) and The Women. This is my favorite picture of her:
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kathrine
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Post by kathrine on Aug 4, 2006 23:00:44 GMT -5
oh thats a great photo!! I want to see Marie Antoinette! it looks great ;P and her costumes that she wears! my god they are fab!
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Post by scottlord on Aug 11, 2006 0:46:59 GMT -5
I have Marie Antoinette, An Idiot's Delight, A Free Soul, Romeo and Juliet but her silents I love.
There's one about Hiedleberg with Ramon Novarro that I watch alot. He Who Gets Slapped is a great film, although it showcases Lon Chaney more than Gilbert or Shearer. I need to know about the film Tower of Lies if anyone has read about the film.
Thanks,
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Post by kathrine on Aug 11, 2006 4:39:40 GMT -5
cant you find info about it on IMDB (Tower of Lies) or something? Is that a Silent?
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Post by Jess on Aug 11, 2006 13:48:42 GMT -5
I found the IMDb page on it: www.imdb.com/title/tt0016446/I haven't heard about that one, but it says it's lost I love He Who Gets Slapped. Absolutely brilliant ♥
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Post by kathrine on Aug 11, 2006 20:26:55 GMT -5
Oh my god! It has William Haines too! I hate reading that films are silent films are lost.. It breaks your heart. I also read that Colleen Moore donated a copy of her film but the company she donated it to "didnt get around to preserving it" ... that kinda makes me angry
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Post by Jess on Aug 11, 2006 22:41:45 GMT -5
That would make me angry too! I'll bet it made her pretty angry, if she was still alive to see that it had deteriorated. That's really terrible that she was generous enough to give an archive her copy, and they just let it sit and rot
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Post by kathrine on Aug 13, 2006 4:53:12 GMT -5
yeah its just... sad now ill bet they would preserve all of the films like Kate Hudson's ones or something. I guess back then they proberbly never thought of the future and that people would be collecting them and stuff. Alot of silent stars are forgotten which is REALLY sad. They should be remembered, they made the film industries seriously.
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Post by Miss Retro on Sept 26, 2007 22:50:10 GMT -5
Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) – June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the 1920s until her retirement in 1942. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door, but after her 1930 film The Divorcee she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies and dramas, as well as several historical and period films. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she was the daughter of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman Andrew Shearer and actress Edith Shearer. She would describe her childhood as "a pleasant dream" [citation needed] until the age of 16 when the success of her father's business fell through. Edith then took herself, Norma, and daughter Athole to New York to find jobs in the entertainment industry. One of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, she began her career as a fashion model and film extra in 1920, but later that year she received her first supporting part in The Stealers, attracted the attention of a young producer named Irving Thalberg. A series of small films followed, but Norma Shearer won praise from critics for her small, forgettable films of that era. Then in 1924 Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios was established, and there Shearer was placed under contract by Thalberg. Strikingly beautiful in the face, Shearer played a wide variety of roles that most admired actresses could only dream about. After she signed to MGM, Norma Shearer became a star in her own right. He Who Gets Slapped, Lady of the Night, (1925) and His Secretary, all helped her become one of Hollywood's top five box office stars from 1925 until 1930, after which the number of films she made a year dropped. Many of her silent films are considered lost. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) marked Shearer's first prestige production, and the film scored well with critics and audiences. Later that year, she married Irving Thalberg, with whom she would later have two children, Katherine and Irving Jr. Despite great success in her early talking films, The Trial of Mary Dugan, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, and Their Own Desire (all 1929), Shearer knew the public would soon tire of her "good girl" image, and took the advice of friend and costar Ramon Novarro to visit to an unknown photographer named George Hurrell. There she took a series of sexy portraits which convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, The Divorcee (1930). Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work, and a series of highly successful pre-code films followed. Shearer was considered one of Hollywood's most versatile actresses, playing sexy roles in films like A Free Soul (1931), and was acclaimed for her dramatic abilities in such films as the period drama Smilin' Through (1932), which co-starred Fredric March, and was one of the most successful films of the year. After the enforcement of the production code in 1934, Shearer moved into more period dramas. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) was one of her most successful period dramas. The production costs of Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Marie Antoinette (1938) proved too great for a profit at the box office, though their elaborate sets and costumes helped make the films popular with audiences. Shearer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress on six occasions, winning for her role in The Divorcee in 1930. This was one of a series of roles Shearer played in sophisticated yet racy pre-Code dramas. She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reportedly her favorite role. Marion Davies later recalled that Shearer came to a party at San Simeon in her costume, which required removing the door so she could enter, and four chairs so she could sit at the table. Shearer was photographed with great care because she had a lazy eye, however George Hurrell, who remained one of her favorite photographers, compensated by photographing her looking upwards. [1] Her earlier successful roles were generally those of "modern" sexually uninhibited women. She was highly regarded for her performances that ranged from comedy to tragedy, but later in her career she preferred to play noble characters, and after Thalberg's death was well received in more unusual roles such as Idiot's Delight (1939), her last of three films with Clark Gable. The Women followed and was a substantial success, but a group of younger actresses, along with Shearer's long time rival Joan Crawford, received the best reviews. Shearer's marriage to Thalberg gave her a degree of power in Hollywood that was resented by rivals such as Crawford who complained that Shearer would always be offered the best roles and best conditions, with the comment, "After all, she's sleeping with the boss." [citation needed] Shearer and Crawford acted only once together, as bitter rivals in The Women. Critics praised the suspenseful atmosphere in Shearer's next film, Escape (1940). The movie centered around a Nazi officer's mistress who helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp. With increasing interest of the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but by this time Shearer had lost interest in her career. She turned down the leading roles in Gone with the Wind (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), and Now, Voyager (1942). Shearer later starred in two romantic comedies which did little for her, We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover (both 1942). Shearer later spoke of her regret at ending her career, and expressed a desire to return to films. After Thalberg's death, Shearer embarked on romances with actors George Raft and James Stewart, among others. She retired from acting in 1942 after public indifference to her last few films, and married Martin Arrougé, a ski instructor twenty years her junior. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death (from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease) at 80 or 82 years old, although in her declining years she reportedly called Martin "Irving". Shearer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard. She is entombed in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in a crypt marked Norma Shearer Arrouge, along with her first husband Irving Thalberg. Her friend Jean Harlow is in the crypt next door. Thalberg's crypt was engraved "My Sweetheart Forever" by Shearer.
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