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He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.
Shearer, Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest received a deal to write a first draft of a screenplay for a company called Marble Arch.
At the end of a working day in July 1925, Shearer received a phone call from Thalberg's secretary, asking if she would like to accompany Thalberg to the premiere of Chaplin's The Gold Rush.
While she was finishing The Student Prince, Shearer received a call summoning her to Thalberg's office.
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In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.
Shearer and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network.
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.
The original choice was Joan Crawford, who purportedly never forgave Shearer for usurping the role.
Again, Shearer was to be disappointed, relegated to a minor role.
Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee, and a series of highly successful pre-Code films followed, including Let Us Be Gay ( 1930 ), Strangers May Kiss ( 1931 ), A Free Soul ( 1931 ), Private Lives ( 1931 ) and Riptide ( 1934 ).
Shearer was also one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone With The Wind ( 1939 ).
However, Shearer expressed no interest, joking, " Scarlett is a thankless role.
His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie, starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role.
) 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.
Douglas G. Shearer ( November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971 ) was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.
With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell, Goddard played the supporting role of Miriam Aarons.
In 1983, Ford gained her first television role on ABC's One Life to Live ; her first major role was on the NBC soap opera Another World, where she played Julia Shearer ( a role previously played by Kyra Sedgwick ) for several years.
and that Alan Shearer would take over the managerial role for the remainder of the season.
Though Power's services were requested for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy, Paris in King's Row, by Harry Cohn for several films throughout the years, and by Norma Shearer herself for her planned production of The Last Tycoon to play Irving Thalberg, Zanuck stuck by his original decision.
On 1 April 2009, following the appointment of Alan Shearer as manager on an interim basis, Newcastle released a statement that Wise had left his role as Executive Director of Football with immediate effect.
Hank Azaria took over the voice of Moe, while Harry Shearer assumed the role of Mr. Burns.
Novarro was impressed with the results and showed them to the actress Norma Shearer, who was attempting to mould her wholesome image into something more glamorous and sophisticated in an attempt to land the title role in the movie The Divorcee.
Solano revealed that Alan Shearer had played an influential role in arranging his return.
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Starting when Shearer was four years old, he had a piano teacher whose daughter worked as a child actress.
Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.
The childhood and adolescence that Shearer once described as " a pleasant dream " ended in 1918, when her older sister, Athole, suffered her first serious mental breakdown and her father's company collapsed.
Shearer's marriage to Thalberg gave her a degree of power in Hollywood that was resented by rivals such as Crawford, who complained that Shearer would always be offered the best roles and best conditions: " How can I compete with Norma when she's sleeping with the boss.
Their partnership grew after graduation as part of the comedy group The Credibility Gap with Harry Shearer in Los Angeles, but McKean's breakthrough came in 1976 when he joined the cast of Laverne and Shirley.
* Shearer additionally plays off of the bit occasionally during his weekly radio broadcast Le Show ; while imitating the voices of famous politicians having fictional conversations with each other about diplomatic visits to China, confusion ensues when discussing Chinese President Hu Jintao (" who?
( Norma Shearer would become one of his first foreign donors when he began working with leprosy patients.
He then linked up with Kenny Dalglish at Newcastle United on a one-year contract but lost his place in the side after Christmas, when Alan Shearer returned from a long-term injury.
His first political promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante ( founder of the Jamaican Labour Party ) took over editorship of the paper and took Shearer under his wing.
He gained legendary status with Sunderland fans in 2001, when he saved a penalty kick from Alan Shearer in the dying moments of a November 2000 game, to preserve a valuable win over arch rivals and neighbouring club Newcastle United.
The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.
: Shearer: " What about when you developed your Bell's Palsy?
Henry would famously say he doesn't want to hurt his feelings and every morning when Shearer signed off, Henry would warn listeners to " take care on the roads now John Shearer's on the roads ".
Of this twist, Shearer once stated: " You can think you're in control of the amusing notion of the wrong act opening for a rock band — but when you actually find yourself being the wrong act, it doesn't feel any better.
The line between fiction and reality had previously blurred when, in 1993, Guest, McKean and Shearer performed as The Folksmen at a genuine folk festival held at UCLA in Los Angeles, alongside such real-life folk artists as Arlo Guthrie, Joni Mitchell and Peter, Paul & Mary.
He was an original Beatnik still working and being creative in the late 1960s when he discovered Harry Shearer, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean, all much younger than he.
They had looked like championship contenders for much of the season, but Newell lacked the much-needed support up front after late December when strike partner Alan Shearer suffered a serious knee injury and missed the rest of the season.
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Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
In 1926 Hawks was introduced to Athole Shearer by his friend Victor Fleming, who was dating Athole's sister Norma Shearer at the time.
Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.
From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group.
In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.
While promoting the film, Shearer was offered the chance to return to Saturday Night Live.
Shearer was born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dora Warren ( née Kohn ), a book-keeper, and Mack Shearer.
" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.
According to Shearer, after graduating, he had " a very serious agenda going on, and it was ' Stay Out Of The Draft '.
From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.
In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.
Shearer told new executive producer Jean Doumanian that he was " not a fan of Lorne's " and offered to stay with the show if he was given the chance to overhaul the program and bring in experienced comedians, like Christopher Guest.
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.
Dick Ebersol, who replaced Lorne Michaels as the show's producer, said that Shearer was " a gifted performer but a pain in the butt.
" In January 1985, Shearer left the show for good, partially because he felt he was not being used enough.
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