 Shearer's "medium-pitched, fluent, flexible Canadian accent, not quite American, but not at all foreign", was critically applauded, and thereafter widely imitated by other actresses, nervous about succeeding in talkies.Despite the popularity of her subsequent early talking films, "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" and "Their Own Desire" (both 1929), Shearer feared the public would soon tire of her "good girl" image, and took the advice of friend and co-star Ramón Novarro to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell.There, she took a series of sensual portraits that convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, "The Divorcee" (1930).