[ Edith] Norma Shearer [11 August 1902-12 June 1983] rest in peace =)

 

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983)^[2][3] was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942.^[4] Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women.^[5] She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare,^[6] and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).^[7]

Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Shearer]