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