Word: norma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
Loew's Orpheum--"The Tower of Lies", continuous: The old, old story, but told by Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney so vividly and tragically that it scarcely needs sub-titles...
Loew's State--"The Tower of Lies" continuous. Lion Chaney and Norma Shearer...
...Tower of Lies. In any realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
Graustark - Norma Talmadge should make more pictures. She is not only excellent herself; she seems to have a knack of picking stories. George W. McCutcheon's old romance of the fancied Balkan principality comes gorgeously to life in pictures. It is well played, it is exciting. It is, therefore, an unusual film, not to be missed...