TV Guide: Norma Shearer

Video: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Say a Little Prayer

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:36:16 -0500

Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton) is speaking not only to deities after demanding that his daughter Elizabeth (Norma Shearer) drink her tankard of porter in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934.

Video: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Browning

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:36:14 -0500

The visit of Robert Browning (Fredric March) to the invalid Elizabeth Browning (Norma Shearer) is interrupted by her vindictive father Edward (Charles Laughton) in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934.

Video: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Italy in October

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:36:14 -0500

Unimpressed with the improved health of his daughter Elizabeth (Norma Shearer) Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton) refuses her permission to travel in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934.

Video: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Most Displeased!

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:36:13 -0500

Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton) is a total killjoy for daughters Elizabeth (Norma Shearer) and Henrietta (Maureen O'Sullivan) in an early scene from The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934.

Video: We Were Dancing - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:04:07 -0500

A Polish princess gives up society for the love of a gigolo in We Were Dancing (1942) starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas.

Video: Romeo and Juliet (1936) - (Wide release Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:03:24 -0500

"Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer play star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet (1936), based on William Shakespeare's tragedy."

Video: Riptide - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:03:18 -0500

In her last pre-code movie, Norma Shearer plays a chorus girl who weds a British lord then falls for an old flame in Riptide (1934).

Video: Idiot's Delight - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:39 -0500

"Clark Gable and Norma Shearer star in Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Idiot's Delight (1939)."

Video: Her Cardboard Lover - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:34 -0500

"In Norma Shearer's final movie, she plays a flirt who tries to make her fiance jealous by hiring a gigolo in George Cukor's Her Cardboard Lover (1942)."

Video: Marie Antoinette - (Wide Release Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:50:55 -0500

Norma Shearer stars in Marie Antoinette (1938), a lavish film biography of the French queen whose rule alienated the citizens of France.

Video: He Who Gets Slapped - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:31:56 -0500

John Gilbert and Norma Shearer are hungry, but not for food, in this scene from MGM's first movie, He Who Gets Slapped (1924).

Video: Women, The -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Harvey Fierstein

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:12:45 -0500

Playwright, actor and TCM Guest Programmer Harvey Feinstein joins Robert Osborne for this enthusiastic introduction to director George Cukor's The Women, 1939, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell.

Video: The Women - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:08:05 -0500

A happily married woman (Norma Shearer) lets her friends talk her into divorce when her husband has an affair with shopgirl Joan Crawford in The Women (1939).

Video: Escape -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Charles Busch

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:42:05 -0500

TCM Guest Programmer, actor and playwright Charles Busch, joins Robert Osborne for introduction and comments following Escape, 1940, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor.

Video: Escape - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:42:04 -0500

A Nazi officer's mistress helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp in Escape (1940) starring Norma Shearer.

Video: Kid Stays In The Picture, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:36:33 -0500

Robert Evans' rise from second-string actor (who really was discovered while lounging by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel) to head of one of Hollywood's biggest movie studios is told from the viewpoint of Evans himself in this documentary, adapted from his autobiography (and featuring Evans' own narration). In 1957, Evans had already achieved success in the garment business when actress Norma Shearer spotting him at poolside and suggested he should play her late husband, legendary producer Irving Thalberg, in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces. While Evans knew he wasn't cut out to be an actor, he discovered he liked the movie business, and after becoming a film industry executive, Evans was named head of production at Paramount in the late '60s. Under Evans' leadership, Paramount produced such classics as Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, and The Godfather. He also married actress Ali McGraw; however, McGraw left Evans for Steve McQueen after they starred together in The Getaway. After leaving Paramount to beco

Video: Women, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:14:32 -0500

Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell), who has little room to talk -- she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary. But with a bit of guts and daring, Mary snatches her man right back from Crystal's clutches. Snappy, witty dialogue, much of it courtesy of veteran screenwriter Anita Loos, helps send this film's humor over the top. So do the characterizations -- Crawford is as venomous as they come, and this was Russell's first chance to show what she coul

Video: Laurel & Hardy And Friends

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:25:18 -0500

This hilarious collection of shorts includes Laurel and Hardy's "Be Big!" (1930, 28 min.), the Our Gang comedies "Our Gang Follies of 1938" (1937, 21 min.), "School's Out" (1930, 21 min.) and "Bear Shooters" (1930, 20 min.), an all-star cast headed by Laurel & Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Buster Keaton and Norma Shearer in "The Stolen Jools" (1931, 18 min.) and Charley Chase and Thelma Todd in "Whispering Whoopee" (1930, 20 min.).

Video: Laurel & Hardy And Friends

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:24:42 -0500

Video: Stolen Jools

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:48:57 -0500

This short film was made to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanitarium and featured many of Hollywood's biggest stars contributing their time to this project. The story to tie this promotional short together involves the missing pearls of Norma Shearer and some detectives working on the case. Moving from a star-studded party to a movie studio across town, the detectives eventually learn the truth behind the missing pearls.