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. Kim Stanley died of uterine cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving.". She received an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in the episode A Cardinal Act of Mercy on the TV series Ben Casey (1963) and an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). She retired from acting in 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. And she played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). 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. Other movies include Frances (1982), playing the mother of movie star Frances Farmer opposite Jessica Lange, in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture.

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. In 1964, she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. 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. Her first movie was The Goddess (1958), playing an unstable movie star, Rita Shawn. She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift (brother of Montgomery Clift) while she was married to Conway, and one by Ryder. Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec. Stanley had four husbands, Bruce Hall (married 1945-divorced 1946), Curt Conway (married 1949-divorced 1956), Alfred Ryder (married 1958-divorced 1964) and Joseph Siegel (married 1964-divorced 1967).

A savaging by English critics after her London performance of Masha in The Actor's Studio production of Chekhov's play The Three Sisters (1964) made her vow never to perform on stage again, a vow she kept for the rest of her life. Stanley was also the leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York during the 1950s. Among her many starring roles was Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the Gulf Coast of Texas in Horton Foote's A Young Lady of Property, which aired on the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse April 5, 1953. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance of Anna Reeves in The Chase; and was nominated for the 1959 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for A Touch of the Poet and the 1962 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for A Far Country. She starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic (1953), playing Millie Owens, and Bus Stop (1955), playing Cherie.

She eventually attended The Actor's Studio, studying under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. She was singled out by the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few motion picture roles. She was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.

She was born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico. Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress.