Cast: Norma Shearer
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Norma Shearer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1927 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ramon Novarro · Norma Shearer · Jean Hersholt · Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot Nephew and heir to the King of a small country, Karl Heinrich is taken to Heidelberg to study by his tutor, Dr. Jüttner. There he falls in love with Kathi,...
7.6
507 votes
7.6
507 votes
He Who Gets Slapped
1924 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Lon Chaney · Norma Shearer · John Gilbert · Tully Marshall
Plot Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He...
7.5
590 votes
7.5
590 votes
The Women
1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland
Plot Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TV)
2008 · Documentary · 68 min. · United States
Cast John Landis · Jonathan Kuntz · Rudy Behlmer · Jerry Beck
Plot A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
6.6
111 votes
6.6
111 votes
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Movie · 149 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Norma Shearer · Tyrone Power · John Barrymore · Robert Morley
Plot The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the...
6.5
259 votes
6.5
259 votes
The Divorcee
1930 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Norma Shearer · Chester Morris · Conrad Nagel · Robert Montgomery
Plot Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York 'in-crowd'. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his...
6.4
157 votes
6.4
157 votes
Escape
1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova
Plot An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.
6.4
43 votes
6.4
43 votes
Lady of the Night
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Malcolm McGregor · Dale Fuller · George K. Arthur
Plot David Page is loved by two very different women: Molly, an overpainted and undereducated floozy, and Florence, a refined graduate of a finishing school. Both lovelorn ladies played by Norma...
6.3
35 votes
6.3
35 votes
Smilin' Through
1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Norma Shearer · Fredric March · Leslie Howard · O.P. Heggie
Plot John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned...
6.2
61 votes
6.2
61 votes
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Norma Shearer · Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan
6.2
60 votes
6.2
60 votes
A Free Soul
1931 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Leslie Howard
Plot Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight...
6.1
137 votes
6.1
137 votes
Private Lives
1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Montgomery · Reginald Denny · Una Merkel
Plot Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Both couples go to a hotel...
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
Romeo and Juliet
1936 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Leslie Howard · Norma Shearer · John Barrymore · Basil Rathbone
Plot The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall...
6.0
330 votes
6.0
330 votes
Her Cardboard Lover
1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · George Sanders · Frank McHugh
Plot A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her...
5.7
22 votes
5.7
22 votes
The Stolen Jools (S)
1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery
Plot Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft...
5.6
32 votes
5.6
32 votes
The Miracle of Sound (S)
1940 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Shearer
Cast Clark Gable · Hedy Lamarr · Spencer Tracy · Norma Shearer
Plot MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (1940) (a Jeanette...
5.6
36 votes
5.6
36 votes
Idiot's Delight
1939 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Edward Arnold · Charles Coburn
Plot When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by. His greatest success comes as straight man in a phony vaudeville mind-reading act...
5.6
45 votes
5.6
45 votes
Strange Interlude
1932 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan
Plot The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who...
5.4
28 votes
5.4
28 votes
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Conrad Nagel · Buster Keaton · Jack Benny · John Gilbert
4.8
31 votes
4.8
31 votes
Upstage
1926 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Oscar Shaw · Tenen Holtz · Gwen Lee
Plot Dolly (Norma Shearer) is a stagestruck girl who gets her career petered out until she displays show-must-go-on courage by standing-in as target in a knife-throwing act.
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