 Marion Davies later recalled that Shearer came to a party at San Simeon in her Marie Antoinette costume; Davies said she was not about to remove the door so Shearer could enter, so Norma made her grand entrance through wider doors leading from another room.Four chairs were arranged so she could sit at the table in her voluminous skirts.In 1939, she attempted an unusual role in the dark comedy "Idiot's Delight", adapted from the 1936 Robert E. Sherwood play.