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Birthdate: August 10, 1902
Death date: June 12, 1983
Norma Shearer
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.4340
41
1930s
3.2686
16
1940s
0.9088
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6025
2.6025
Norma Shearer Movie Rankings
1
2.9607Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. ...more about Women
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
2
2.9059Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York 'in-crowd'. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his car, disfiguring young Dorothy's face in the process. ...more about Divorcee
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
3
2.6414Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Both couples go to a hotel on the same day and are put in adjoining rooms with adjoining terraces. ...more about Private Lives
- Not Available on DVD
4
2.6118
Lisbeth is a modern woman who thinks that marriage is old fashioned. She has two men in her life; Steve, who wants to marry her and Alan, who wants her to travel with him. ...more about Strangers May Kiss
- Not Available on DVD
5
2.5844
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her lackluster appearance, their children and himself. ...more about Let Us Be Gay
- Not Available on DVD
6
2.5433
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during WWI. ...more about Strange Interlude
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.5058
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. ...more about He Who Gets Slapped
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.4282
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. ...more about Barretts of Wimpole Street
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.3652
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actress
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
12
2.3077
The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall passionately in love. ...more about Romeo and Juliet
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $11.98
(9 sellers)
13
2.2305
John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned when her parents were lost at sea. ...more about Smilin' Through
- Not Available on DVD
15
1.8173
Lally is a rich girl whose Father who writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, Father decides to divorce Harriet, his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers who is also divorcing her husband. ...more about Their Own Desire
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
16
1.7716
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape. ...more about Escape
DVD from $6.39
(4 sellers)
17
1.7533
Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. ...more about Free Soul
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
18
1.7168
'Jackie Cooper' (qv)'s mother agrees to host a Christmas party for his football team. Things soon get out of hand, and the number of children gets too large for his house. He pleads with 'Norma Shearer' (qv) to ask 'Louis B. ...more about Christmas Party
- Not Available on DVD
19
1.6027
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. ...more about Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Not Available on DVD
20
1.5068
Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. ...more about Slippery Pearls
DVD from $5.84
(3 sellers)
22
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower). ...more about Actress
- Not Available on DVD
37
Dolly, alias "Angel Face," meets a naive young man at a hotel who appears to be rich. ...more about Lady of Chance
- Not Available on DVD
38
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. ...more about Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- Not Available on DVD
46
Park Avenue socialite Mary (Norma Shearer)and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford (Herbert Marshall)are married as a lark, but she is very happy for several years with her husband and child. ...more about Riptide
- Not Available on DVD
51
Young Prince Karl Heinrich has spent his entire life behind the palace gates protected from the world. ...more about Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
- Not Available on DVD
54
Mary Dugan, a Broadway showgirl, is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover, and goes on trial for her life. ...more about Trial of Mary Dugan
- Not Available on DVD
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