Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | November 28, 2009
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Tags: A Free Soul, Classic Movies, Lady of the Night, Mick LaSalle, Norma Shearer, Silent Films, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The Women
Best Films – 1927
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
FILM
Breakfast at Sunrise
d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger
The Enemy
d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings
The Unknown
d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
The Valley of the Giants
d: Charles Brabin; scr: Gordon Rigby
George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
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The Cat and the Canary
d: Paul Leni; scr: Alfred A. Cohn, Robert F. Hill; titles: Walter Anthony
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney / The Love of Jeanne Ney
d: G. W. Pabst; scr: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Abel Gance, Benjamin Glazer, Best Films, Breakfast at Sunrise, Brigitte Helm, Charles Brabin, Classic Movies, Constance Talmadge, Ernest Palmer, Ernst Lubitsch, Flora Finch, Fred Niblo, Fritz Arno Wagner, H. H. Caldwell, Hal Mohr, Hans Kraly, Janet Gaynor, Jean Hersholt, Katherine Hilliker, Lon Chaney, Malcolm St. Clair, Marion Davies, Napoleon, Norma Shearer, Paul Leni, Ramon Novarro, Silent Films, Sunrise, Ted McCord, The Cat and the Canary, The Enemy, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The Unknown, The Valley of the Giants, Tod Browning, Willis Goldbeck