1930s star dies
NZPA Los Angeles Norma Shearer, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 19305, has died in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital. She was 81. The brown-haired, greyeyed Canadian-born actress won an Academy Award for best actress for the 1929 film, “The Divorcee.” She also scored triumphs in “Idiot’s Delight,” opposite Clark Gable, and other films
including “A Free Soul,” “Strange Interlude,” “Smiling Through,” and “Marie Antoinette.” She was the widow of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production genius, Irving Thalberg, who died suddenly soon after he produced “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Good Earth.” Miss Shearer’s second husband was a ski instructor, Martin Arrouge.
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Press, 15 June 1983, Page 10
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