Norma Shearer

I needed a break from blogging. So I took some days off! And yours truly has returned. Did you miss me?
I've been horribly behind on my TCM Summer Under the Stars watching. I did manage to tape 4 Norma Shearer movies and am determined to watch them all! I simply love Norma Shearer, regardless of what her critics say. I think she was wonderfully unapologetic and exquisitely glamorous. She had a will of iron and let no one stand in her way. I am the complete opposite which is why I admire her so greatly.
So I had taped The Divorcee (1930), Her Cardboard Lover (1942), Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Romeo & Juliet (1936). Her Cardboard Lover was Shearer's last film. She went on to marry a young ski instructor and continue to live glamorously until her death in 1983. It was quite good. The plot was completely unrealistic but that's the poetic license of film is it not? And then I watched The Divorcee which is supposed to be one of the raciest precode films ever. It deals with divorce (of course), premarital/extramarital relations and gender double standards in a very modern way. Unfortunately, I estimated incorrectly how much recording time I had left on my VHS tape and didn't get to see the ending. Dang it! Now I'm left with unanswered questions until TCM's next rotation, which will probably be in a few months. Anywho, if you haven't seen a Norma Shearer movie, shame on you! Go thee hence and rent The Women (1939), which is her best (and happens to be the theme of my profile).