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Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic

17 hours ago | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right) Mike Lasalle on Norma Shearer: "Shearer was at her best in the films no one sees: her silents. When you see her in the masterpieces she made with Monta Bell – or even in fluff, such as Lady of Chance – there’s no question that she was a great silent-film actress. In the talkies, the work is uneven, sometimes in curious ways. … Generally, I think the mistake [...] »

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