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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, For your Collection! series, Studio Portraits. 1930's
Norma Shearer Star of "Barretts of Wimpole Street"
Signed in photo
9 by 12 inches, heavy paper
Over all toning front and back, tack holes and corner wear
Found in a collection of 10, these studio portraits were hung on a wall, wit tacks. Someone loved looking at them daily. These images are more personal that movie stills. They show the Actor as they were. Relaxed and smiling. Although there are some condition issues, the charm and rarity make this a treasure.
ORIGINAL - NOT A REPRODUCTION
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Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s.Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies. Later she appeared in historical and period films.
Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before. Focus shifted to her pre-Code "divorcee" persona and Shearer was rediscovered as "the exemplar of sophisticated [1930's] woman-hood... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards".
Simultaneously, Shearer's ten-year collaboration with portrait photographer George Hurrell and her lasting contribution to fashion through the designs of Adrian were also recognized.
Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD.
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