Norma Shearer Movies

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Gilbert

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Holt

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.

Genre: Western

Cast: Eugene O'Brien

Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pauline Frederick

An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Rich

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

To avoid seeing Marjorie Dare, Jim Allen visits Stewart Leighton at the latter's country home. (Five years earlier Jim's engagement to Marjorie Dare...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Kane

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bobby Short

A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marion Davies

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Crawford

A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Shearer

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Dawn

Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Pickford

The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judy Garland

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Morriss

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judy Garland

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Crawford

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Plummer

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Spencer

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

Genre: History

Cast: Kent Stevenson

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A fisherman in the Bay of Fundy loses his sweetheart while he is at sea. A lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Gendron

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Prevost

In Maine, a girl masquerades as a boy during the day after her mother is killed by an unknown assailant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Miller

Part 5 of The Leather Pushers boxing film series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginald Denny

An adventure tale set in the North Woods. The villain, smuggler Jules Payette, would give anything if Jeanne would give in. Saving her virtue in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William H. Tooker

Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

A 1920 silent comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Hines

In the desolated wilds is a Trading Post, to which Oliver Thornton went to seek obscurity after being falsely convicted of a crime in the States....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfred Lytell

Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Larry Semon

Trouble begins when Madame Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Ameche

A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olive Thomas

Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norma Shearer

Here you will see Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Walter Huston and a host of other Canadians who achieved world renown on the silver...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Brazilian documentary film directed by Salvyano Cavalcanti de Paiva that showcases the evolution of Brazilian artists in the American film industry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carmen Miranda

This short features clips from silent films (mostly unidentified) of the 1910's, accompanied by humorous commentary. Highlighted are early...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vito Russo