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Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...
Best female acting?Norma Shearer (Divorcee...
Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight...
...Manhattan stage last year, is the sort of thing that the talking cinema in its present stage of development can do best. No Hollywood hack writing has been permitted to change the thread of the story, although the prelude of unhappy married life has been elaborated. Norma Shearer takes two parts-first a dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman she has met in Paris, she is called on to divert her former husband from making...
...Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...