Several months later, she called Shearer's parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show The Jack Benny Program.

Shearer accepted because he was treated well by the producers and he thought the backstage environment had improved but later stated that he " didn't realize that guests are treated better than the regulars.

It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as " the making of me ".

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

A few weeks later, Shearer went to Montreal to visit her father.

Marion Davies later recalled that Shearer came to a party at San Simeon in her Marie Antoinette costume, which required removing the door so she could enter, and four chairs so she could sit at the table.

Although often attending public events in her later life, Shearer withdrew from the glamor side of Hollywood and preferred anonymity, with her secretary stating in 1960: " Miss Shearer does not want any publicity.

His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie, starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role.

Actress Norma Shearer, whom he would later marry, was surprised after he greeted her at the door, then walked her to his office for her first job interview: " Then you're not the office boy?

Alan Shearer headed in, after three minutes to give his side the lead, but Stefan Kuntz evened the score less than 15 minutes later, and the score remained 1 – 1 after 90 minutes.

Two notable " featured players " on the show included writer Al Franken and ( for Season 5 ) Harry Shearer, who later acted in several films ( including This is Spinal Tap ) and television series, including The Simpsons.

Shearer would later remark " I was creative ... and they were different.

Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt.

Sixteen days later, Berbatov tied a league record by scoring five goals in a game during a 7 – 1 home victory over Blackburn Rovers ; he was the first non-Englishman to net five in a Premier League match, and joined Andrew Cole, Alan Shearer and Jermain Defoe as the only players overall to do so.

Mayer's company folded into Metro Goldwyn with two notable additions: Mayer Pictures ' contracts with key directors such as Fred Niblo and John M. Stahl, and up-and-coming actress Norma Shearer, later married to Thalberg.

However, his top-flight league goals tally was surprassed by Andy Cole of Newcastle United in 1993-94 and a year later by Alan Shearer at Blackburn Rovers.

" In a later interview, Shearer added, " Now, writers refuse to talk about it.

Another of Mrs Monroe's daughters, Mary Gardei, later provided an affidavit claiming that her mother ( then Almira Shearer ), under the name of Almira Marks, was actually serving two years in the Detroit House of Corrections in 1872 for the manslaughter of her daughter-in-law, Emily Mark.

He was briefly their record signing until later in July they signed Alan Shearer for £ 3. 3million.

In soft ensemble passages ( such as the famous Dee Barton arrangement of " Here's That Rainy Day "), Shearer plays extremely softly, achieving a true orchestral pianissimo ; this technique allows the later ensemble climax to seem even more powerful.

" Thalberg's widow, Norma Shearer, recalled, " Grief does very strange things to you.

His Red Shoes co-star Moira Shearer recalled Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone.

In a 2001 interview, Harry Shearer, the voice of Principal Skinner, recalled that after reading the script, he told the writers, " That's so wrong.

Shearer made his film debut in the 1953 film Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, in which he only had a small part.

Shearer and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network.

Crawford was made up and used as a double for Shearer and her face is briefly seen.

A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, Shearer made his professional debut with English top-flight club Southampton in 1988, scoring a hat-trick in the process.

Despite this auspicious start to his career, Shearer was only eased into the first team gradually and made just ten goalless appearances for the club the following season.

In his four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals.

Shearer made his league debut away at Everton, on 17 August 1996, and maintained his form during the rest of the season, finishing as Premier League top-scorer for the third consecutive season with 25 goals in 31 Premier League games, as well as winning another PFA Player of the Year accolade, despite a groin injury forcing him to miss seven matches.

Early in 1923, after a successful meeting, Roach made Shearer an offer on behalf of Louis B. Mayer Pictures, run by mogul Louis B. Mayer.

By 1927, Shearer had made a total of thirteen silent films for MGM.

With increasing interest in the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but Shearer made errors in judgment, passing up roles in the highly successful films Now, Voyager and Mrs. Miniver, in order to star in We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover ( 1942 ), which both failed at the box office.

According to R. R. Shearer, the generation of natural looking surfaces and landscapes was a major turning point in art history, where the distinction between geometric, computer generated images and natural, man made art became blurred.

) Gable made such an impression in the role of a gangster who pushes Shearer around that he was catapulted from supporting player to leading man, a position he held for the rest of his career.

With the coming of sound, Gilbert's vocal talents made a good first impression in the all-star musical comedy The Hollywood Revue of 1929, appearing in a Technicolor sequence with Norma Shearer.

In the new Premier League in 1993, Blackburn finished fourth thanks to a side made up of mostly new players like £ 3. 3 million record signing striker Alan Shearer, who scored 16 league goals before a serious injury sustained just before the turn of the new year ruled him out for the rest of the season.

On 26 June, the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, under command of Major Maurice E. Shearer, supported by two companies of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion and the 15th Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, made an attack on Belleau Wood, which finally cleared that forest of the enemy.

Ernst Lubitsch made a silent film also based on Förster's work, titled The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer.

* 2 February 2006 — Graeme Souness is sacked as manager of Newcastle United, and Glenn Roeder was made caretaker manager with Alan Shearer his assistant manager.

He made 268 films, both sound and silent, and played opposite such stars as Norma Shearer, Constance Bennett, Ann Sothern, and Jean Arthur.

This new cast included Soap star Billy Crystal ; Martin Short, who had made a name for himself as Ed Grimley ( a character he would bring to SNL that year ) on Canada's SCTV ; Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer ( who was also a cast member in 1979 ) from The Credibility Gap and This Is Spinal Tap ; Pamela Stephenson from Not the Nine O ' Clock News & Superman III ; and Rich Hall from HBO's Not Necessarily the News.

Alex Ferguson then made unsuccessful bids for strikers David Hirst and Alan Shearer, sparking speculation that either McClair or Mark Hughes would be forced out of the first team by the new signings, but in the end the new striker signed was Dion Dublin, who was bought as backup for McClair and Hughes.

Shearer said he still believed Jones had followed proper processes, but the differing statements made inside and outside of court, and the questions raised publicly had prompted him to refer it to an independent agency.

Guest, McKean and Shearer made a cameo appearance as the Folksmen in the 1992 film The Return of Spinal Tap, which documented the latter group's real-life reunion concert at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Shearer made a confused face, then a shocked one, pantomiming his reaction to the film's handling of comedic and tragic elements.

In the closing month of the season Shearer was being picked ahead of Mackenzie but ( due to an agreement made prior to his loan signing ) was not allowed to play against his parent-club Bristol Rovers in the League Two play-off final.