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Vanities
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1930
Vanities
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1930
FLASHBACK: Vanity Fair, 1930
Vanities
This Saran Wrapped beauty, fresh from the refrigerator, has all the aloof bearing of the Queen of Celluloid. Which is what Norma Shearer was in 1930, when Cecil Beaton photographed her against a cellophane background. It was the year she won the Oscar for her role in The Divorcee— though, perhaps, the sleek Canadian's most important role was as The Wife. Her star ascended in 1927 (the year she married MGM wonder boy Irving Thalberg), gleamed confidently for a decade, but dimmed after his premature death.
