Norma Shearer Size:M: 60 x 40cm St John's Wood

St John's Wood

One of the crew of three is shown operating a bellows to supply air

Ruins of the crypt at St Thomas Chapel

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Martha and Mary Magdalene

Norma Shearer Size:M: 60 x 40cm St John's WoodNorma Shearer (1902 1983), Canadian actress, c1930s c1940s. Shearer began her film career doing extra work, but was given a five year contract by Irving Thalberg (her future husband) when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923. Her first talkie was The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) and four films later she won a Best Actress Academy Award for her role in The Divorcee (1930). Shearer was nominated for five more Academy Awards and in 1939 she was aoffered the