Norma Shearer wins Best Actress Oscar
Norma Shearer wins the Best Actress Academy Award for her role in The Divorcee.
Shearer was born in Montreal, Canada, and studied piano and dance as a child. When her father's business collapsed during World War I, her mother brought Norma and her sisters to New York, where Shearer found work as a model and bit-part actress. Budding movie mogul Irving Thalberg caught a glimpse of her in The Stealers in 1920 and tracked her down three years later. By 1925, she was playing leading roles in such films as Pretty Ladies. She married Thalberg, the head of production at MGM, in 1927.
With Thalberg's guidance, Shearer became a superstar; films for which she received an Academy Award nomination included Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Marie Antoinette (1938). She won the Best Actress Oscar in 1930 for her role in The Divorcee.
After Thalberg died of pneumonia in 1936, Shearer's popularity declined. In 1942, she retired from acting and married a ski instructor. Norma Shearer died in 1983.
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