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Norma was known as the queen of the MGM lot. Some believed it was because her husband was the boy wonder Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford (who called her "Miss Lotta Miles" referring to a pre-stardom ad Shearer appeared in), Rosalind Russell, and Myrna Loy despised Norma. She was able to remain close to other MGM stars such as Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, and Lana Turner. She even garnered the respect of the elusive Greta Garbo.
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BiographyFriends and FamilyMerle Oberon [Friend] :: Athole Shearer [Sister] :: Douglas Shearer [Brother] :: Edith Shearer [Mother]Trivia and QuotesQuotes "I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin." "It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer." "Never let them see you in public after you`ve turned thirty-five. You`re finished if you do!" "Scarlett O`Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I`d like to play is Rhett Butler." "The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."Trivia At the height of her career, she was earning $6,000 per week. F. Scott Fitzgerald based one of his most famous stories, "Crazy Sunday", on a party hosted by Shearer, who also inspired the story`s main character, Stella Calman. Her son died in 1988 of cancer. He was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1927 she insisted on firing the director Viktor Tourjansky because he was unsure of her cross-eyed stare. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction. She and her brother Douglas Shearer were the first Oscar-winning brother and sister. She is one of the celebrities whose picture Anne Frank placed on the wall of her bedroom in the "Secret Annex" while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. She would not remove her wedding ring for a role, preferring to cover it up with flesh-colored tape. Turned down the role of Scarlett O`Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and the title role in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Was meticulous about her appearance. Early in her career, she spent money she could barely afford on the services on an eye doctor, who trained her to strengthen a weak eye. She swam everyday, had massages to firm her figure, and dieted religiously. She experimented with makeup until she decided on a light tone that would illuminated her face on screen. discovered a handsome young businessman beside a swimming pool - now actor/producer Robert Evans. | ||
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