Norma Shearer
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Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eu
Shearer in Riptide (1934)
Portrait of Shearer by Arnold Genthe, c. 1920
Norma Shearer's strabismus, 1926
Shearer in an early MGM publicity photo
George Raft
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George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered
Norma Shearer
…for six films at $150,000 each. During this time, she embarked on a brief romance with the younger actor James Stewart, and then with the married actor George Raft. Raft (who had separated from his wife years earlier, soon after they married) stated publicly that he wanted to marry Shearer. However, his wife's…
Raft in 1935
Raft in Invisible Stripes (1939)
Whistle Stop (1946) with Ava Gardner
Judy Canova and Raft in 1979