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1. The Women (1939)
Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Votes: 14,725 | Gross: $2.27M
2. The Divorcee (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Romance, Drama
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 3,544
3. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King
Votes: 4,195 | Gross: $0.19M
4. Marie Antoinette (1938)
Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Votes: 3,242
5. Way Down East (1920)
Passed | 145 min | Drama, Romance
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman
Votes: 5,831 | Gross: $4.50M
6. A Free Soul (1931)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable
Votes: 2,892
7. Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Passed | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Conway Tearle
Votes: 2,183
8. Idiot's Delight (1939)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,652
9. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Passed | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 2,094
10. Strange Interlude (1932)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 826
11. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Music
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Votes: 2,232
12. Lady of the Night (1925)
TV-G | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A world-weary prostitute yearns after respectability and the love of an inventor.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, George K. Arthur, Fred Esmelton
Votes: 785 | Gross: $0.21M
13. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 1,636
14. Smilin' Through (1932)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 1,523 | Gross: $2.19M
15. Private Lives (1931)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Divorced couple unexpectedly meet each other during their honeymoon and rekindle their love.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,322
16. The Stolen Jools (1931)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
The boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.
Directors: William C. McGann, John G. Adolfi, Thomas Atkins, Harold S. Bucquet, Victor Heerman, Russell Mack | Stars: Norma Shearer, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wallace Beery
Votes: 1,177
17. Riptide (1934)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Votes: 676
18. Pretty Ladies (1925)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 265
19. The Christmas Party (1931)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Family
Jackie wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team, but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM decide to help him out.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Marion Davies
Votes: 446
20. Let Us Be Gay (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery
Votes: 621
21. Their Own Desire (1929)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Romance
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 779
22. The Flapper (1920)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Ginger grows up in a slow town. Because of her wild attitude, her father decides to send her to a strict boarding school. Despite the strictness, the girls have fun getting into flapper lifestyle trouble including flirting.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Olive Thomas, Theodore Westman Jr., William P. Carleton, Warren Cook
Votes: 418
23. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston
Votes: 570
24. Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Frank McHugh
Votes: 796
25. We Were Dancing (1942)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Two titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman
Votes: 508
26. Escape (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova
Votes: 1,070
27. The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's ... See full summary »
Director: Bayard Veiller | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hackett
Votes: 156
28. Strangers May Kiss (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance
Against her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 524
29. The Devil's Circus (1926)
70 min | Drama
Mary (Shearer) and Carlstop (Mack) are lovers. The former is a trapeze artist, while the latter is a pickpocket. Mary gets entangled in a nearly fatal situation with Lieberkind (Miljan), a ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack, Carmel Myers, John Miljan
Votes: 171 | Gross: $0.24M
30. The Wolf Man (1923)
60 min | Drama
The youngest son of a noble English family turns into a wolf man whenever he partakes in alcohol.
Director: Edmund Mortimer | Stars: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Alma Francis, George Barraud
Votes: 33
31. Upstage (1926)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Gwen Lee
Votes: 102
32. The Tower of Lies (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lon Chaney, Ian Keith, Claire McDowell
Votes: 113 | Gross: $0.22M
33. A Slave of Fashion (1925)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lew Cody, William Haines, Mary Carr
Votes: 178 | Gross: $0.18M
34. The Restless Sex (1920)
85 min | Drama
A young woman is torn between two men: her childhood sweetheart and a handsome art student.
Directors: Leon D'Usseau, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Ralph Kellard, Carlyle Blackwell, Charles Lane
Votes: 191
35. A Lady of Chance (1928)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Seasoned grifter Dolly Crandall returns to the 'badger game' but has a change of heart when she falls in love with a young man she believes is a rich Southerner.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 535
36. Excuse Me (1925)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
When Lieutenant Mallory is ordered to report immediately for duty in Honolulu, he persuades his fiancée, Marjorie Newton, a beautiful society debutante, to marry him immediately, enabling ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Walter Hiers
Gross: $0.22M
37. After Midnight (1927)
70 min | Drama
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lawrence Gray, Gwen Lee, Eddie Sturgis
Votes: 84 | Gross: $0.40M
38. A Man's Man (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Peggy goes Hollywood in an attempt to break into movies and marries a gullible soda jerk, who buys worthless stock from an assistant director who claims he can make the wife,who he has his own designs on,into a star.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: William Haines, Josephine Dunn, Sam Hardy, Mae Busch
Votes: 60
39. The Actress (1928)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower). The rest of ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Owen Moore, Gwen Lee, Lee Moran
Votes: 28
40. Broadway After Dark (1924)
70 min | Comedy
A brash young man-about-town is attracted to a Broadway actress, but her flirtatious ways turn him off and make him want to change his life. He takes a room in a quite boarding-house that ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Norma Shearer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edmund Burns
41. The Stealers (1920)
70 min | Drama
The Rev. Robert Martin, having been deserted by his wife years earlier, seizes upon that injustice as an excuse to lead a life of crime. Martin preaches the gospel while his band of ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: William H. Tooker, Robert Kenyon, Myrtle Morse, Norma Shearer
42. Waking Up the Town (1925)
63 min | Comedy
A young girl visits her grandfather, who owns an auto repair shop. She falls in love with his handsome assistant, who is also an engineer trying to talk the town banker into financing his ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer
Votes: 33
43. His Secretary (1925)
70 min | Comedy
When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lew Cody, Willard Louis, Karl Dane
Votes: 17 | Gross: $0.32M
44. Lucretia Lombard (1923)
70 min | Drama
An emotional drama with a love triangle. A man gets engaged, but soon after falls in love with another woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Irene Rich, Monte Blue, Marc McDermott, Norma Shearer
Votes: 45
45. 1925 Studio Tour (1925)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.
Stars: Mrs. M.F. Lee, Carey Wilson, Howard Hawks, Agnes Christine Johnston
Votes: 427
46. Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Approved | 30 min | Documentary, Short
This 1940 presentation features highlights of past Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and ... See full summary »
Stars: Carey Wilson, Janet Gaynor, Emil Jannings, Mary Pickford
Votes: 156
47. Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ralph Staub, Don Ameche, Joan Crawford, Irene Dare
Votes: 154
48. A Clouded Name (1923)
52 min | Drama
A 'what if' story promises suspense and intrigue when Jim Allen manages to discover a so-called family friend's underhanded schemes that ruined Jim's father and plummeted Jim into a lowly social and financial state of affairs.
Director: Austin O. Huhn | Stars: Norma Shearer, Gladden James, Yvonne Logan, Richard Neill
Votes: 56
49. The Waning Sex (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
Nina Duane (Norma Shearer) is a criminal lawyer whose gender is professionally resented by Philip Barry (Conrad Nagel), the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, George K. Arthur, Mary McAllister
Votes: 39 | Gross: $0.25M
50. The Snob (1924)
70 min | Drama
Just as Nancy Claxton finished at a convent school, her wealthy father Sherwood is killed in a roadhouse brawl. Stung by the disgrace, she disappears and her sweetheart, Herrick, tries to find her.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Phyllis Haver