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  MARY MILES MINTER ,AMERICAN ACTRESS  BORN 1902 APRIL 25 -1984 AUGUST 4 Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; April 25, 1902[1][2]– August 4, 1984) was an American actress. She appeared in 53 silent films from 1912 to 1923. In 1922, Minter was involved in a scandal surrounding the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, for whom she professed her love. Although gossip implicated her mother, former actress Charlotte Shelby, as the murderer, Minter's reputation was tarnished, and she gave up her film career in 1923. Early life Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the younger of two daughters born to J. Homer Reilly[3] (1877–1958)[citation needed] and Lily Pearl Miles (later known as Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby;[3] 1877–1957). Her sister was Margaret Reilly, who later became an actress using the name Margaret Shelby. Career Stage and film career Minter, c. 1918 At the age of five, she accompanied her sister Margaret on an audition because no babysitter was availab...

  NORMA SHEARER ,AMERICAN ACTRESS  BORN 1902 AUGUST 10 -1983 JUNE 12 Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) [2] [3]  was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. [4]  Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated  ingénues . [5]  She appeared in adaptations of  Noël Coward ,  Eugene O'Neill , and  William Shakespeare , [6]  and was the first five-time  Academy Award  acting nominee, winning  Best Actress  for  The Divorcee  (1930). [7] Reviewing Shearer's work,  Mick LaSalle  called her "the exemplar of sophisticated 1930s womanhood ... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards". [8]  He described her as a  feminist  pioneer, "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". [8] Shearer was of  Scottish ,  Engli...