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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
I just don't know for sure but you could be correct ER.....Norma Shearer, such a darling....very romantic and dangerous. Maybe some candy will make her sweet...
She had a handsome brother, Douglas Shearer, who was a sound engineer at MGM. I don't know too much about him. His body donated to medical science
Specifically: Body was donated to UCLA medical school. He was married but without issue.
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Douglas Graham Shearer was born in Canada on November 17, 1899. The 1930 Census says he came to the US in 1926. He appears in the US Census in 1930 and again twice in 1940. In the 1930 Census he is married to the first wife Marian (Tilden). In 1930, they lived at 487 Mesa Road, Santa Monica (Pacific Palisades) The house is apparently still there, according to the Assessor's office, although it has a giant hedge across the front.
There are two entries for him in 1940, the first is on a farm or ranch in San Diego County, with his wife Ann (Cunningham) and the two children. He apparently married Ann in 1932.
The second appears to be a rental house he shared with a roomer, a Leonard Nudson (possibly Hudson) This was located on Kelton Avenue and is no longer there. On all three Census listings he is noted to be a sound engineer. He died in Culver City in 1971.
A paragraph in Find a Grave notes that he won 12 Oscars during his career. Find a Grave also notes another sister, an actress, Athole Shearer Hawks, born in 1900. She had come to Hollywood in 1919. She married director Howard Hawks.