Norma Shearer Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Reviewing Shearer’s work, Mick LaSalle called her “the exemplar of sophisticated 1930s womanhood … exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards”. He described her as a feminist pioneer, “the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen”.

Norma Shearer Wiki, Biography

Shearer was of Scottish, English, and Irish descent.^{[citation needed]} Her childhood was spent in Montreal, where she was educated at Montreal High School for Girls and Westmount High School. Her life was one of privilege, due to the success of her father’s construction business. However, the marriage between her parents was unhappy. Andrew Shearer was prone to manic depression and “moved like a shadow or a ghost around the house”, while her mother Edith Fisher Shearer was attractive, flamboyant, and stylish. Young Norma was interested in music, as well, but after seeing a vaudeville show for her ninth birthday, she announced her intention to become an actress. Edith offered support, but as Shearer entered adolescence, she became secretly fearful that her daughter’s physical flaws would jeopardize her chances. Shearer herself “had no illusions about the image I saw in the mirror”.^{[quote citation needed]} She acknowledged her “dumpy figure, with shoulders too broad, legs too sturdy, hands too blunt”,^{[quote citation needed]} and was also acutely aware of her small eyes that appeared crossed due to a squint in her right eye. By her own admission, though, she was “ferociously ambitious, even as a young girl”,^{[quote citation needed]} and planned to overcome her deficiencies through careful camouflage, sheer determination, and charm.^{[citation needed]}

The childhood and adolescence that Shearer once described as “a pleasant dream” ended in 1918, when her father’s company collapsed, and her older sister, Athole, suffered her first serious mental breakdown. Forced to move into a small, dreary house in a “modest” Montreal suburb, Shearer found her determined attitude was only strengthened by the sudden plunge into poverty: “At an early age, I formed a philosophy about failure. Perhaps an endeavor, like my father’s business, could fail, but that didn’t mean Father had failed.”^[11]

Edith Shearer thought otherwise. Within weeks, she had left her husband and moved into a cheap boarding house with her two daughters. A few months later, encouraged by her brother, who believed his niece should try her luck in “the picture business”,^{[quote citation needed]} then operating largely on the East Coast, Edith sold her daughter’s piano and bought three train tickets for New York City. Also in her pocket was a letter of introduction for Norma, acquired from a local theatre owner, to Florenz Ziegfeld, who was currently preparing a new season of his famous Ziegfeld Follies.

Awards and nominations

Shearer was the first person to receive five Academy Award nominations for acting.^[7] Her brother Douglas Shearer and she are the first Oscar-winning siblings.^[64]

Daily Habits

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Net Worth

The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.