Norma Shearer - Norma Shearer Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-born American actress. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg in 1927 (they had two children). Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee (1930). She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette (said to be Shearer's favorite role). Thalberg died in 1936, after which his.
Douglas Shearer - Douglas Shearer Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 - January 5, 1971) was a sound designer and director. He was born in Montreal, Quebec to a prominent upper class family, but his family fell on hard times after his father’s business failed and ultimately it led to his parents separating. Douglas remained with his father in Montreal while his two younger sisters, Norma and Athole moved to New York City with their mother. Unable to afford university, Douglas Shearer left school, working at a variety of jobs until he visited his sisters who by then had relocated to Hollywood, California in the early 1920s. Deciding to remain there, he found a job at MGM Studios and began to pursue his interest in the creation of sound in.
Athole Shearer - Athole Shearer Athole Shearer, born November 20, 1900 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada - died March 17, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, United States, was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. As a teenager, Athole Shearer’s divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film roll. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977). They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of.
Joan Crawford - Pepsi bottle. She proudly kept her Pally next to her Oscar for Mildred Pierce. After her death, a book titled Mommie Dearest, which was written by the eldest of her four adopted children, Christina Crawford, was published. Friends of Joan were shocked by the tales of outrageous cruelty and called it fictitious. It was made into a film starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, which was seen to be camp by most viewers. Audiences howled with laughter at the overacted, melodramatic portrayal of Crawford. And the child abuse, control issues, et cetera, were acted out as outlandishly as they were written. Joan Crawford died in New York City of a heart attack while apparently ill with cancer. In her will, she gave the two youngest of her adopted children, Cindy and.
June 12 - of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet. The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults. 1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series. 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School. 1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces enter the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia 2003 - Robert Angleton goes missing while on bond, five days before he.
Irving Thalberg - to Carl Laemmle. He left Universal in 1924 to become head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He produced several films there, including Mutiny on the Bounty. He was married to actress Norma Shearer and is interred with her in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is named for him..
Hollywood Walk of Fame - Ricky Nelson Olivia Newton-John Jack Nicholson Leonard Nimoy Laurence Olivier Paderewski Dolly Parton Gregory Peck Anthony Perkins Jack Pickford Mary Pickford Walter Pidgeon Sidney Poitier Tyrone Power Elvis Presley Marie Prevost Vincent Price Richard Pryor Claude Rains Basil Rathbone (3 stars) Ronald Reagan Donna Reed Carl Reiner Rob Reiner Lee Remick Jean Renoir Burt Reynolds Tex Ritter Harold Robbins Marty Robbins Edward G. Robinson Roy Rogers Will Rogers Mickey Rooney Diana Ross Jane Russell Winona Ryder Arnold Schwarzenegger Randolph Scott William Shatner Norma Shearer Martin Sheen Frank Sinatra Red Skelton Wesley Snipes Sonny and Cher (2 stars) Kevin Spacey Steven Spielberg Sylvester Stallone Barbara Stanwyck Jimmy Stewart Gale Storm (3 stars) Igor Stravinsky Meryl Streep Gloria Swanson Elizabeth Taylor Shirley Temple Rin Tin Tin Gene Tierney Spencer Tracy Ritchie Valens Rudolph.
Huntley Gordon - and talking films. - Huntley Gordon - In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." That same year he starred in "The Wanters" with fellow Canadians, Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost. For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio. Huntley Gordon died in.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery - De Grasse, actor Georges Delerue, French composer Fifi D'Orsay, actress Theodore Dreiser, author, wrote "An American Tragedy" Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress Don Drysdale, baseball great with the Los Angeles Dodgers W.C. Fields, comedic actor Errol Flynn, actor Clark Gable, actor King C. Gillette, businessman, founder of the razor company Huntley Gordon, actor Sid Grauman, Hollywood entertainer and theater owner Sydney Greenstreet, actor Jean Harlow, actress Jean Hersholt, actor, humanitarian Ted Knight, actor Alan Ladd, actor Louis L'Amour, author Carole Lombard, actress Jeanette MacDonald, actress Chico Marx, comedic actor William Mulholland, engineer Alfred Newman, composer Merle Oberon, actress Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist Tom Mix, cowboy actor Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first Bad Boy Mary Pickford, actress, businesswoman, Co-founder of United Artists Dick Powell, actor David O. Selznick, film director Athole.
1902 - - Ansel Adams, photographer (+ 1984) February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, actor (+ 1994) March 9 - Will Geer, actor (+ 1978) March 16 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (+ 1943) March 17 - Bobby Jones, golfer (+ 1971) March 21 - Son House, blues musician March 24 - Thomas Dewey, politician (+ 1971) March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (+ 1984) March 29 - William Walton, composer March 29 - Marcel Aymé, narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (+ 1967) April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress (+ 1969) May 6 - Max Ophüls, director (+ 1957) May 10 - Anatole Litvak, film director (+ 1974) May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer.
1983 - 1940. The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people. Internet Domain Name System invented by Paul Mockapetris. Democratic reform in power in Argentina. American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public Radio International in 1994 Year in topic 1983 in film May 25 - Return of the Jedi Terms of Endearment The Big Chill The Right Stuff 1983 in literature 1983 in music 1983 in sports March 6 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition 1983 in television February 28 - Over 125 million Americanss tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H March 7 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting. Births January 18 - Utada Hikaru, Japanese-American R&B singer May 2 - Rose Falcon, actress/singer November 18 -.
1983 in film - Octopussy Sudden Impact Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton and Teri Garr Staying Alive Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay Births Deaths April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor Other Movies Released The Big Chill The Right Stuff Chiefs Querelle A Christmas Story.
1936 in film - 9 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician Deaths Other Movies Released The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone A Tale of Two Cities.
1930 in film - actor December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor Deaths July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes. Other Movies Released All Quiet on the Western Front Animal Crackers Anna Christie The Blue Angel The Divorcee - Starring: Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Little Caesar Morocco Murder.
1902 in film - which in one scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket. Births July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (+ 1964) August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1983) August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director September 22 - John Houseman, actor September 28 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor (+ 1974) Deaths.
1983 in Canada - for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Books in Canada First Novel Award: W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe Gerald Lampert Award: Diana Hartog, Matinee Light Pat Lowther Award: Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History Stephen Leacock Award: Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick Vicky Metcalf Award: Claire Mackay Film Graham Greene makes his film debut in Running Brave David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone is released A film is made of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf Births Deaths June 12 - Norma Shearer, actor July 13 - Gabrielle Roy, author July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor Alden Nowlan, author Stan Rogers, musician Yves Theriault, author Graham Spry, broadcaster.
1902 in Canada - consecutive majority November 21 - Edward Prior becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir Births June 19 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader August 10 - Norma Shearer, actor November 21 - Foster Hewitt, broadcaster Deaths.
A Free Soul - the mobster she had started a relationship with, a mobster whom her father had gotten an acquittal on a murder charge. It stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable. The movie was adapted by Becky Gardiner and John Meehan (dialogue continuity) from the play by Willard Mack, which was based on the book by Adela Rogers St. Johns. It was directed by Clarence Brown. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (Lionel Barrymore) and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Norma Shearer) and Best Director..
Academy Award for Best Actress - - Sadie Thompson 1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette Ruth Chatterton - Madame X Betty Compson - The Barker Jeanne Eagels - The Letter Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady Bessie Love - The Broadway Melody 1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee Nancy Carroll - The Devil's Holiday Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son Greta Garbo - Anna Christie and Romance Norma Shearer - Their Own Desire Gloria Swanson - The Trespasser 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill Marlene Dietrich - Morocco Irene Dunne - Cimarron Ann Harding - Holiday Norma Shearer - A Free Soul 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet Marie Dressler - Emma Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory May Robson - Lady for a Day Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade.
August 10 - area over a year's period. 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the United States Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted. 1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II. 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus. 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in.
