Norma Shearer From the mid Twenties through the early Forties, Norma Shearer, the most unlikely of all screen beauties, reigned supreme as the first lady of the screen, the genuine motion picture aristocrat.
"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
The more one tries to isolate the qualities that made Norma Shearer unique the more one heads into an area of a kind of gracious dignity -- a serene purity of bearing and attitude that eludes sensible definition.
