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.

Shearer later recalled that " that smile made it the most fascinating face I had seen in years.

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.

Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Life with Albert Brooks and started writing for Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a satirical rockumentary about a band called Spinal Tap.

While promoting the film, Shearer was offered the chance to return to Saturday Night Live.

Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.

Shearer started working with Albert Brooks, producing one of Brooks ' albums and co-writing the film Real Life.

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.

* 1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer ( d. 1971 )

The play was first heard on film in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, in which John Gilbert recited the balcony scene opposite Norma Shearer.

Shearer and Leslie Howard, with a combined age over 75, played the teenage lovers in George Cukor's MGM 1936 film version.

* January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer ( b. 1899 )

The film stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina, renowned dancers from the ballet world, as well as Esmond Knight and Albert Basserman.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett ( Norma Shearer ) and Robert Browning ( Fredric March ), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett ( Charles Laughton ).

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer.

According to popular film lore, Shearer was originally never in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she didn't have enough sex appeal ; it was only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with studio portrait photographer George Hurrell and her husband saw the result, that he relented and gave her the role.

Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: " the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen ".

Shearer as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette ( 1938 film ) | Marie Antoinette ( 1938 )

Shearer also took on another play popularized by Cornell in Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) ( her first film of the 30s to lose money ) and Marie Antoinette ( 1938 ) ( a budget of almost $ 2, 500, 000 was too great for the studio to expect a profit ), though their elaborate sets and costumes helped make the films immensely popular with audiences.

In 1957, Shearer was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Walter Pidgeon ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, and Best Sound, Recording ( Douglas Shearer ).