Lady of the Night Articles

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (top); Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, second husband Martin Arrouge (bottom) Norma Shearer may not be a household name today, but back in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s all the way to the early 1940s, Shearer's star shone brighter than most. Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Thursday, Aug. 12, to the [...]

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 [...]

Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in King Vidor's The Big Parade Best Films – 1925: Film, Cinematography BEST ACTOR John Gilbert The Big Parade   Norma Shearer (sitting), Gwen Lee (left), Betty Morrissey in Monta Bell's Lady of the Night (top); Florence Vidor, Betty Bronson, Adolphe Menjou in Malcolm St. Clair's Are Parents People? (bottom). Photos: Courtesy of Derek Boothroyd. BEST ACTRESS Belle Bennett Stella Dallas [...]