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In desperate need of money, Shearer resorted to some modeling work, which proved successful.

On her modeling career, she commented: " I could smile at a cake of laundry soap as if it were dinner at the Ritz.

I posed with a strand of imitation pearls.

I posed in dust-cap and house dress with a famous mop, for dental paste and for soft drink, holding my mouth in a whistling pose until it all but froze that way.

" She became the new model for Springfield Tires, was bestowed with the title " Miss Lotta Miles " and depicted seated inside the rim of a tire, smiling down at traffic from a large floodlit billboard.

Years later, MGM rival Joan Crawford would disparagingly refer to Shearer as " Miss Lotta Miles ".