Norma Shearer

Also known as Edith Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)

OverviewAI-generated

Norma Shearer was a singer and actress whose professional career spanned from 1920 to 1942. She was recognized in the Academy Award Best Actress collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. Her work has been associated with the 40s and Old Time Radio.

Shearer was born on August 10, 1900, or August 10, 1902, and died on June 12, 1983. She is listed as an author with one work, identified as "Norma Shearer Gavin Lambert Hpb." Additionally, she is referenced by 646 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 1

Top works

Norma Shearer Gavin Lambert Hpb

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Active from: 2002

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 123
Total plays: 279

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,580x
Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms
· 1992 · cited 4,653x
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,521x
Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for <i>Fungi</i>
· 2012 · cited 4,515x
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x

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Encyclopedic overview

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, was nominated six times in all, and won one for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).

Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".

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