What is Norma Shearer?
[[File:Norma Shearer in We Were Dancing trailer.jpg|right|200px]] '''Edith Norma Shearer''' (or '''Norma Shearer'''; 10 August 1902 – 12 June 1983) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] and [[Americans|American]] [[actress]]. She was very popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She usually played a girl-next-door in her early [[movie]]s. She won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in ''The Divorcee'' in 1930. For most of the time before the [[Motion Picture Production Code]], she played sexually liberated females in sophisticated contemporary [[comedy movie]]s. She later appeared in historical and period movies. Shearer was born in [[Montreal]]. She died of [[bronchopneumonia]] in [[Los Angeles]] at 80. {{Academy Award Best Actress}} {{us-actor-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shearer, Norma}} [[Category:Canadian movie actors]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1983 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from bronchopneumonia]] [[Category:People from Montreal]] [[Category:Best Actress Academy Award winners]]