The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak – and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Read More »
Tag Archives: Norma Shearer
Escape (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Drama
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. Read More »
Romeo and Juliet (1936) George Cukor, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Drama, Romance
The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Read More »
Upstage (1926) Monta Bell, Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Drama, Romance
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Read More »
The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama
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. Read More »
Private Lives (1931) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Read More »
Her Cardboard Lover (1942) George Cukor, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Comedy, Romance
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 boyfriend. Read More »
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Victor Sjöström, Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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 falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
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Lady of the Night (1925) Monta Bell, Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, Dale Fuller, Drama, Romance
Lady of the Night ~ the story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life, – Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning the daughter of the judge who would send Molly’s father to prison. The girls’ lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
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