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.

We're not introducing them to anything they don't really know ," so Shearer thought it would at least have some resonance with the public.

While he would never win a trophy at Newcastle, Shearer helped his team to runners-up finishes in the Premier League and FA Cup with Newcastle, and won a second PFA Player of the Year award.

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 ".

Focus shifted to her pre-Code " divorcee " persona and Shearer was rediscovered as " the exemplar of sophisticated woman-hood ... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards ".

Edith offered support but, as Shearer entered adolescence, became secretly fearful that her daughter's physical flaws would jeopardize her chances.

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

It was an apprenticeship that would serve Shearer well.

Occasionally Shearer would burst into tears, but this seemed to make " no more impression than rain on a raincoat.

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.

Over the next two years, both Shearer and Irving would see other people, but Hollywood insiders knew it was something of a charade – she was just waiting for him to propose.

It also spelled the end of many silent careers, and Shearer was determined hers would not be one of them.

Despite the popularity of her subsequent early talking films, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and Their Own Desire ( both 1929 ), Shearer feared the public would soon tire of her " good girl " image, and took the advice of friend and co-star Ramón Novarro to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell.

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.

The paper would eventually be purchased by the Shearer family, who published daily editions that were Republican-leaning, and weekly editions that were independent.

Among those whose stardom was guided by Thalberg were Lon Chaney, Ramon Novarro, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, and Norma Shearer, who would become his wife.

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?

Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but Harry Shearer used " such a sweet voice " and Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to over Homer.

They were replaced with Jim Shearer ( who would go on to become the main VJ in the heavily genre-segregated MTV2 ), Abby Gennet ( who began to host MTV2 Rock, which was now being played between 3 and 5 p. m. every weekday afternoon ), Quddus ( a regular MTV VJ, who would host MTV2 Soul, which would air between 9 and 11 a. m. every weekday ), and La La & DJ Clue ( both of whom would host MTV2 Hip-Hop, which was played between 10 p. m. and midnight every weeknight ).

( Norma Shearer would become one of his first foreign donors when he began working with leprosy patients.

In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son.

Before the 1996 – 97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £ 12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford but the offer was turned down and Shearer opted for Newcastle instead.

It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O ' Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude ( starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable ), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

Speaking at a fans ' forum in 2008 Adams remarked " I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go.

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.

Hawks and Athole Shearer finally married on May 28, 1928 and they honeymooned in Hawaii.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Shearer describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and he did not get along well with the other writers and cast members.

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy / music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW.

According to Shearer, after graduating, he had " a very serious agenda going on, and it was ' Stay Out Of The Draft '.

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 describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and " not a real pleasant place to work.

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

Shearer, Guest and McKean have since worked on several projects as their Spinal Tap characters.

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

In the same year, Crawford worked on Lady of the Night, starring Norma Shearer.

This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £ 15 million.

On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking on his most successful domestic season as a player to date.

Shearer's league-record 34 goals, coupled with Sutton's 15, helped the Lancashire club take the Premier League title from holders Manchester United on the final day of the season, and the duo gained the nickname " the SAS " ( Shearer And Sutton ).

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.

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 Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

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 ".

Still undeterred, Shearer risked some of her savings on a consultation with Dr. William Bates, a pioneer in the treatment of incorrectly aligned eyes and defective vision.

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.

The next morning, Shearer went to the Mayer Company on Mission Road to meet with the vice-president, Irving Thalberg.