Norma shearer imdb biography of morgan

Norma Shearerwas a Canadian actress who became one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1930's and was known as the "first lady of MGM". She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, winning once, for her role in 'The Divorcee' in 1930.

Her career started in the silent era and she easily made the transition to Talkies, aided by her brother Douglas, who was Recording Director at MGM.

Norma and Douglas were the first Oscar-winning brother and sister.

Her "good girl" image at the start of her career in Silent Movies changed with a series of highly successful pre-Code, sexually liberated roles. After the Code began to be enforced she developed a more demure image and she appeared in period dramas and "prestige" pictures such as 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' produced by her husband, the young MGM mogul, Irving Thalberg.

She has not been remembered as some of her contemporaries have but recently her career has been re-evaluated and