No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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Consuelo Croyden
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Vicki Wilomirsky
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1942
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Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla...
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Countess Von Treck
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1940
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Irene Fellara
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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Mary Haines
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1939
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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Marie Antoinette
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1938
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Juliet
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1936
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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Mary Rexford
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1934
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Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely...
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Elizabeth Barrett
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1934
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Nina Leeds
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1932
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Kathleen
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1932
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1931
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Amanda Chase Paynne
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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Jan Ashe
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1931
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1931
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Lisbeth Corbin
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1931
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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Jerry
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1930
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Kitty Brown
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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Mary Dugan
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1929
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Mrs. Cheyney
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1929
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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Lally Marlett
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1929
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The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer...
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Rose Trelawney
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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Dolly
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1928
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The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg (George Sidney) and Littauer...
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Ann Dolan
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1928
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Criquette
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1927
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Mary Miller
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1927
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Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable...
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Kathi
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1927
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Mary
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1926
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Upstage stars Norma Shearer as Dolly Haven, an aspiring actress. Applying for a secretarial post at a theatrical agency,...
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Dolly Haven
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1926
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According to playwrights Frederic and Fanny Hatton, The Waning Sex was the male -- and this hypothesis was carried over to...
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Nina Duane
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1926
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Marjorie Newton
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1925
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Mary Ellen Hope
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1925
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Norma Shearer was very much an up-and-coming young actress when she played a dual role in this MGM drama. Molly, a girl of...
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Florence Banning
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1925
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Norma Shearer, who hadn't yet become the queen of the MGM lot (or won mogul Irving Thalberg as her husband), stars in this...
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Ruth Lawrence
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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Glory or Goldie
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1925
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Norma Shearer stars in this routine light comedy. Katherine Emerson (Shearer) decides to leave her small hometown in Iowa to...
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Katherine Emerson
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1925
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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Claire Endicott
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1924
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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Consuelo
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1924
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Although John Gilbert became famous for playing the romantic lover, there was something inside him that occasionally rebelled...
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Nancy Claxton
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1924
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A rough-and-tumble town in Maine is the setting for this routine drama. Norma Shearer masquerades as a boy during the day...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Ultra suave Adolph Menjou plays an urbane, filthy rich bachelor who finds himself falling for a socialite just as carefree as...
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Rose Dulane
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1924
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This is melodrama, not a horror film, and it's booze, not a full moon, that changes John Gilbert's character from man to...
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1924
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Norma Shearer hadn't yet been given the MGM superstar treatment when she starred in The Devil's Partner. Shearer is mostly...
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Jeanne
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1923
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Future MGM star Norma Shearer was still an up-and-coming young starlet when she made an impressive appearance as the flapper...
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Elinor Benton
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was...
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Mimi Winship
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1923
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Norma Shearer plays Dora Perkins, a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr....
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Dora Perkins
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1923
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Norma Shearer returned to her native Canada -- at least in spirit -- for this routine Northwoods melodrama produced in...
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1922
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In her first leading role, a very young Norma Shearer played Jeanne, a wild girl of the Canadian Northwest who marries and...
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1922
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In 1920s jargon, a "flapper" was a footloose young lady who, in keeping with a current fad, wore open-laced boots that...
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1920
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When publisher and producer William Randolph Hearst was putting together a picture for his mistress, the pretty and highly...
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1920
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