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One from the heart, and about as personal as celebrity bios get, as Quirk limns his friend Norma Shearer, who was his uncle James Quirk's love while he was editor-publisher of Photoplay (1914-1932). Despite this closeness to his subject, Quirk writes warmly but unworshipfully, always giving Shearer's performances the compliment of honest opinion. A Scot-English Canadian from Montreal, Shearer was first trained as a pianist, then won a beauty contest (despite poor teeth and a cast in her eye) and slipped into acting. She, her sister Athole, and mother Edith dumped their despairing failure of a dad/husband and took off for N.Y. to find stage careers for the two girls. In later life Norma was always attracted to father figures, men who made up for her father's weaknesses. Thus, after many small parts and starring roles in a string of middling features, she married Irving Thalberg, the boy wonder in charge of production at MGM, and her career took off with the choicest roles in town. Many critics found her a chilly actress, seeing her features as serenely unclouded. Quirk sees her as unique and glamorous, with intrinsic class and a compelling aura, ""an individual stamp, a shimmering r

Author

Quirk, Lawrence J.

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312017989

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.4 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14