Norma Shearer

She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow. Stuart found herself in demand after this and was constantly employed, with her most recent roles being in a Murder, She Wrote TV movie in 2001, and Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004). Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving.". As the centenarian Rose she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination, becoming the oldest person to receive an acting nomination. She retired from acting in 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. In old age, she achieved a level of celebrity she had never experienced during her years as a Hollywood contract player, when cast in Titanic (1997). After Thalberg died in 1936, Shearer embarked upon a series of little known but enthusiastic love affairs, including one with teenage film star Mickey Rooney and tough-guy actor George Raft. After a thirty year break from acting, she appeared in the 1975 television movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden and over the next few years appeared regularly on television. She made her first cinema appearance in almost forty years when she appeared in My Favourite Year in 1982.

She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reputedly her favorite role. As an artist she became well respected with her work being exhibited throughout the USA and Europe. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg, with whom she had two children. Shearer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee in 1930. She made a few films during the 1940s but had become more interested in working with the Screen Actors Guild, and in developing her talents as a painter. She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. By the end of the decade she had starred in more than forty films, including Roman Scandals (1933) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) but had not become a major star. Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec. Her career with Universal Studios failed to gain momentum and she moved to 20th Century Fox.

As a glamorous blonde, she was quickly cast in a variety of films and became a favourite of director James Whale, appearing in his The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933). She was also selected as one of the thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932. After acting in college and in other amateur productions, Stuart was signed to a contract by Universal Studios in 1932. Born Gloria Frances Stewart in Santa Monica, California, she changed the spelling of her name when she commenced her acting career.

Gloria Stuart, born July 4, 1910 (some sources state 1909) is an American actress.