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NORMA SHEARER ,AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1902 AUGUST 10 -1983 JUNE 12

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  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...