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File No. 634342 · Adjudicated
Norma Shearer
Actor — The Divorcee, Way Down East, A Free Soul
Born
1902
Birthplace
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
4.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Johnny Canuck 🦸Canadian to the core. May have moved, but still calls everyone “bud”.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
No Canadian credits on file
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Her brother Douglas Shearer was one of the most Oscar-decorated sound engineers in Hollywood history, winning multiple Academy Awards across sound and technical achievement categories.
The verdict
Born in Montreal but left for Hollywood in her teens, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars of the 1930s. Won the Best Actress Oscar in 1930 and was dubbed 'The First Lady of the Screen,' though her Canadian roots faded as she became a fixture of American cinema.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Quebec · Actor
References — en.wikipedia.org