Since the very beginning, ever since the first klieg light blew a fuse in the wake of an approaching star's even greater glimmer, literally thousands of books and articles have been written about the denizens and doyennes of Hollywood. Across the decades, unfortunately, much erroneous scholarship has been accepted as fact, especially during the 1960s and 1970s when the first wave began to depart for that great big studio in the sky -- these ladies and gentlemen simply weren't around to defend themselves, or were too far gone to realize what was being misinterpreted. Norma Shearer herself fell victim to this sort of thing but, as current authors have stated, the availability nowadays of the great body of her work on video has caused people to have a better, more earnest look at Norma. Thanks to this rediscovery, biographies have been written about her, and she has been featured on the covers of numerous tomes dedicated to glamour, costumers, and the pre-code productions which Hollywood reveled in before the censors clamped an angry chastity belt across the industry's talents and sensibilities. You will be immediately surprised at the number of books that take into account Norma Shearer's contributions to the art of film-making -- not only a star of the highest magnitude, this actress helped introduce millions of moviegoers to a certain sort of sophisticated, take-charge woman, years before Gloria Steinem burned her first bra. Herewith, for your reading pleasure, a library dedicated to Norma Shearer... please be patient with us, as this is an ongoing project; we will be adding more and more books every week, each title accompanied by a descriptive digest for your reading pleasure... thank you!

(introduction by Jimmy)

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All the Stars in Heaven: Louis B. Mayer's MGM
The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers
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Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud
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Clark Gable: A Hollywood Portrait
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Costume Design in the Movies
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Dream Palaces: Hollywood at Home
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The Faces of Hollywood
The Films of Norma Shearer
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George Raft
Gone Hollywood
Gowns by Adrian
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Hollywood Cheesecake
Hollywood Costume Design
Hollywood East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System
Hollywood Gets Married
Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines
Hollywood Legends: Classic Portraits
Hollywood Poolside
Hollywood Portraits
Hollywood Portraits 1929-1941
Hollywood Portraits 1939-1951
Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer
Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits
The Hurrell Style: 50 Years of Photographing Hollywood
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The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour
Immortals of the Screen
In A Glamorous Fashion
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Joan Crawford: A Biography
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
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The Lost Artwork of Hollywood
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The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull
Mayer and Thalberg: The Make-Believe Saints
Merchant of Dreams : Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood
The MGM Girls: Behind the Velvet Curtain
MGM Posters: The Golden Years
The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era
The MGM Story
MGM: When The Lion Roars
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Norma: The Story of Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer: A Life
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Photoplay Treasury
The Portfolios of George Hurrell
The Power of Glamour
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Romeo and Juliet Campaign Book
Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography
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Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
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Thalberg: Life and Legend
Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of M-G-M
They Had Faces Then
Those Glorious Glamour Years
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Whatever Became of ...?
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