Norma Shearer

She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow. She was cremated. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving.". She died from pneumonia in Los Angeles, California. She retired from acting in 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. She played the role of the paranormal investigator, Dr Lesh in the film Poltergeist (1982), the most widely seen role of her film career. After Thalberg died in 1936, Shearer embarked upon a series of little known but enthusiastic love affairs, including one with teenage film star Mickey Rooney and tough-guy actor George Raft. Further film and television roles, such as the mother of Lynda Carter in the Wonder Woman series, did nothing to enhance her film career.

She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reputedly her favorite role. As the devastated wife, confronted by her husband William Holden's infidelity in Network (1976), Straight was onscreen for a little more than 5 minutes, however her performance was widely praised, and earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg, with whom she had two children. Shearer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee in 1930. She worked infrequently in television and cinema, and is remembered by film goers for two roles. She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. She concentrated her attentions on her theater work, winning a Tony Award for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec. Returning to the United States she made her Broadway debut in a 1935 production of Bitter Oleander.

Born in Old Westbury, New York, Straight was educated in England where she began acting in amateur theater. Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theater and film actress.