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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 228981" data-attributes="member: 7">Another actresses that rarely gets any significant baring in our discussions is Norma Shearer. She was a major star from the mid-1920s well into the late 1930s, juggling a decade-long-stint of mega popularity, starring in a host of commercially successful films, sometimes under the guidance of her husband, film producer Irving Thalberg. She won the Academy Award for The Divorcee in 1930, and played in several other then-controversial films, such as A Free Soul (1930). Her on-screen persona gradually matured and got grander, as she would play in such films as The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Romeo &amp; Juliet (1936). She lit up the screen with Clark Gable in Idiot&#039;s Delight (1939), and got involved in some off-screen fireworks with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell in The Women (1939). Her career slowly declined when Irving Thalberg, the head production man at MGM, passed away in late 1936. Still, she was a major star, and she carried the unofficial title of the First Lady of MGM for close to a decade. It&#039;s unfair to her and her body of work that we don&#039;t mention her more than we do. &nbsp;<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Vfxq4afEMQ_Kpj1_eKVR9NkUTO5ymdr6Aff_jFaKoH2Bn39Tkn3MKomKLeDZy3HJPySHKZyrrTwU1T2hHkILzQIecAv8MgRuZdFB87k" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 228981, member: 7"] [FONT=Verdana]Another actresses that rarely gets any significant baring in our discussions is Norma Shearer. She was a major star from the mid-1920s well into the late 1930s, juggling a decade-long-stint of mega popularity, starring in a host of commercially successful films, sometimes under the guidance of her husband, film producer Irving Thalberg. She won the Academy Award for [I]The Divorcee [/I]in 1930, and played in several other then-controversial films, such as [I]A Free Soul[/I] (1930). Her on-screen persona gradually matured and got grander, as she would play in such films as [I]The Barretts of Wimpole Street [/I](1934) and [I]Romeo & Juliet [/I](1936). She lit up the screen with Clark Gable in [I]Idiot's Delight [/I](1939), and got involved in some off-screen fireworks with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell in [I]The Women [/I](1939). [I][/I] Her career slowly declined when Irving Thalberg, the head production man at MGM, passed away in late 1936. Still, she was a major star, and she carried the unofficial title of the First Lady of MGM for close to a decade. It's unfair to her and her body of work that we don't mention her more than we do. [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Vfxq4afEMQ_Kpj1_eKVR9NkUTO5ymdr6Aff_jFaKoH2Bn39Tkn3MKomKLeDZy3HJPySHKZyrrTwU1T2hHkILzQIecAv8MgRuZdFB87k[/IMG] [I] [/I] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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