Norma Shearer Size:M: 60 x 40cm (January 1926)

(January 1926)

Earl of Northumberland

Woman in a shawl representing the biblical figure of Naomi

King Canute failing to hold back the waves

Norma Shearer Size:M: 60 x 40cm (January 1926)Norma Shearer (1902 1983), Canadian actress, c1930s c1940s. Shearer began her film career doing extra work, but was given a five year contract by Irving Thalberg (her future husband) when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923. Her first talkie was The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) and four films later she won a Best Actress Academy Award for her role in The Divorcee (1930). Shearer was nominated for five more Academy Awards and in 1939 she was aoffered the