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French postcard by Europe, no. 618. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
American actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983) was the 'First Lady of MGM'. She often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting. Shearer won the Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930).
Norma Shearer was born in 1902 in Montréal in Canada. In 1931, she would become a naturalised United States citizen. Her childhood was spent in Montreal, where her father had a construction business. Norma was educated at Montreal High School for Girls and Westmount High School. At age fourteen, she won a beauty contest. In 1918, her father's company collapsed, and her older sister, Athole Shearer (later Mrs. Howard Hawks) suffered her first serious mental breakdown. Forced to move into a small, dreary house in a 'modest' Montreal suburb, the sudden plunge into poverty only strengthened Shearer's determined attitude. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister to New York. Florenz Ziegfeld rejected her for his Follies, but she got work as an extra at Universal. Other extra parts followed, including one in Way Down East (D. W. Griffith, 1920). She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to correct her cross-eyed stare caused by muscle weakness. A year after her arrival in New York, she received a break in film: fourth billing in the B-movie The Stealers (Christy Cabanne, 1921). Irving Thalberg had seen her early acting efforts and, when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923, gave her a five-year contract. Shearer was cast with Lon Chaney and John Gilbert in the MGM's first official production, He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924). The film was a conspicuous success and contributed to the meteoric rise of the new company, and to Shearer's visibility. By late 1925, Norma Shearer was carrying her own films, and was one of MGM's biggest attractions, a bona fide star. She signed a new contract; it paid $1,000 a week and would rise to $5,000 over the next five years. By 1927, Shearer had made a total of 13 silent films for MGM. Each had been produced for under $200,000, and had, without fail, been a substantial box-office hit, often making a $200,000+ profit for the studio. She was rewarded for this consistent success by being cast in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), her first prestige production, with a budget over $1,000,000. Privately, Thalberg was very impressed by Shearer. On 29 September 1927, they were married in the Hollywood wedding of the year. Thalberg thought she should retire after their marriage, but she wanted bigger parts. One week after the marriage, The Jazz Singer was released. Norma's brother, Douglas Shearer, was instrumental in the development of sound at MGM, and every care was taken to prepare her for the microphone.
Norma Shearer's first talkie was The Trial of Mary Dugan (Bayard Veiller, 1929) with Lewis Stone. Four films later, she won an Oscar in The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard, 1930). She intentionally cut down film exposure during the 1930s, relying on major roles in Thalberg's prestige projects: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Romeo and Juliet (1936) (her fifth Oscar nomination). Thalberg died of a second heart attack in September 1936, at age 37. Norma wanted to retire, but MGM more-or-less forced her into a six-picture contract. David O. Selznick offered her the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), but the public objection to her cross-eyed stare killed the deal. She starred in The Women (1939), turned down the starring role in Mrs. Miniver (1942), and retired in 1942. Later that year she married Sun Valley ski instructor Martin Arrouge, eleven years younger than she (he waived community property rights). From then on, she shunned the limelight. Norma Shearer passed away in 1983 in Woodland Hills, California. She was 80 and had been in very poor health in the last decade of her life. Shearer is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction, alongside her first husband Irving Thalberg. Shearer had two children with Thalberg. Her son Irving Thalberg Jr (1930) died in 1988 of cancer. He was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her daughter Katherine Thalberg (1935) died in 2006 of cancer. A vegan, she headed the Society for Animal Rights in Aspen, Colorado, from 1989.
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This is now quite a line up! Seen in Llandudno in 1987 is Shearings en masse! Left to right we have B10M/Van Hool 327 (C327DND), Tiger/Plaxton 495 (B495UNB), B10M/Van Hool 536 (C536DND), Tiger/Van Hool 168 (A168MNE), and B10M/Plaxton 573 (D573MVR). Nice.
Uplifted and sheared away from it’s source, this imposing wall of layered rock stands as a testament of the colossal forces of nature.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75 lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L 1A filter using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
On dit que l'espace est un endroit dangereux, mais je pensais que les gants étaient censés nous protéger 🤔 Son talent d’acteur ferait presque oublier que Mark travaille en réalité sur une expérience appelée Ring Sheared Drop. Elle étudie la façon dont les amyloïdes - des dépôts protéiques fibreux et extracellulaires - se forment et se déplacent en impesanteur. Les amyloïdes sont associés à certaines maladies neurodégénératives comme Alzheimer, et on a besoin de mieux comprendre leurs mécanismes si on veut développer à terme des traitements 💊🏥
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They say space is a dangerous place, but I thought that's why we wore gloves 🤔 In between the antics (that I instigated, don’t blame him), Mark is actually working on an experiment called Ring Sheared Drop, investigating how fibrous, extracellular protein deposits called amyloids form and flow in space. Amyloids are associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Knowing more about them could help scientists develop treatments 💊🏥
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Shearings Volvo B10M-60 Van Hool Alizee 848 (G848 RNC) in the then new blue livery in Brighton, 20th September, 1993.
Mungo National Park | NSW | Australia
Some golden light illuminating the historic shearing shed at Mungo National Park.
What looked like a cruddy tornadic storm on radar, quickly changed and went off like an atom bomb producing this structure and even a pretty long lived tornado that hit Lebanon, Indiana which we documented.
A197MNE was a Volvo B10M-61 / Van Hool Alizee C49F purchased new by Jackson's of Altrincham in May 1984. It received National Express livery. On disposal it would serve with Bird of Auborn and Chase Coaches (257) and be re-registered as PSU969.
Opened in 1981, the Benjamin Sheares Bridge is the longest bridge in Singapore, spanning 1.8 km, and the tallest, at 20 m. It is named after Dr Benjamin Henry Sheares, the second president of the Republic, who died four months before the bridge was opened to the public. (wiki)
A former Smiths-Shearings coach sits alongside a then current Shearings coach at Wembley Stadium, London, on 26/06/1996. On the left, facing the camera, is, Blue Bus, Horwich, F701ENE, a Plaxton Paramount 3200 III bodied Cummins powered Leyland Tiger TRCL10/3RZA. New to Smiths-Shearings(701), Wigan, in 12/1988, this was one of thirty Cummins powered Tigers supplied to the now defunct, as a coach operating company, of what became known as Shearings Holidays. It is now a trading name only, the business having collapsed in 2020. Ironically, this Tiger is in a contract livery for Euxton based Alfa Tours. Still trading, they have since purchased the David Urquart brand. Alongside, and therefore nearest the camera is Shearings Hoildays, 170, H170DVM, a Van Hool Alizee bodied Volvo B10M-60. It was new in 01/1991, in what turned out to be a large batch that arrived over a couple of months.
The occasion at Wembley, was the 1996 Football League Second Division Play-off Final between Bradford City, who finished sixth and had only won the play-off place on the final game of the regular season, and Notts County, who finished fourth, in the 1995-6 season. For the record, Bradford City were 2-0 victor's in front of an attendance of 39,972.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being a Boots Colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1996.
Gregadoo Station Shearing Shed located near Wagga Wagga, on the Gregadoo Road, this old shearing shed and yards are still used. This photo was a group of eight photos that have been stacked to allow for the light painting of the shearing shed.
Portrait photograph of X factor star Hannah Sheares photographed by Jignesh Chauhan lighting used one 22 inch beauty dish overhead and in front with a silver 2 meter reflector underneath to fill in shadows under her jaw
Private hire job 115 coaches from Shearings booked for Going Places travel agency staff Christmas party at Birmingham NEC. 5000 staff members transported. (Scanned from Coach and Bus Week Jan '98).
A few years ago I Iived in a small Scottish village. Every summer there was a local "Gala Day" when the community and visitors enjoyed a day in a local field wit various attractions and displays.
Here two local farmers showed how they shear sheep.
A few more Alpaca shearing shots here:
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On dit que l'espace est un endroit dangereux, mais je pensais que les gants étaient censés nous protéger 🤔 Son talent d’acteur ferait presque oublier que Mark travaille en réalité sur une expérience appelée Ring Sheared Drop. Elle étudie la façon dont les amyloïdes - des dépôts protéiques fibreux et extracellulaires - se forment et se déplacent en impesanteur. Les amyloïdes sont associés à certaines maladies neurodégénératives comme Alzheimer, et on a besoin de mieux comprendre leurs mécanismes si on veut développer à terme des traitements 💊🏥
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They say space is a dangerous place, but I thought that's why we wore gloves 🤔 In between the antics (that I instigated, don’t blame him), Mark is actually working on an experiment called Ring Sheared Drop, investigating how fibrous, extracellular protein deposits called amyloids form and flow in space. Amyloids are associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Knowing more about them could help scientists develop treatments 💊🏥
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
607J1377
DSC_5179 - 7 - H10 GVT - Volvo B10M/VanHool T9 Alizee - Glen Valley Tours (Ex-Shearings 906; Ex-R906 YBA) - Wooler, Station Road 30/08/25
DSC_5177 - 7 - H10 GVT - Volvo B10M/VanHool T9 Alizee - Glen Valley Tours (Ex-Shearings 906; Ex-R906 YBA) - Wooler, Station Road 30/08/25
Ex Todmorden Leyland Leopard PSU4A/2R Pennine BWU 691H was an unlikely recipient of Shearings colours, having come into their hands with the takeover of Archway Motors, Shifnal. It was seen at the Barnsley depot on 28th July, 1990, with a Portsmouth Atlantean for company but would have moved on to Blue Bus, Horwich before the Christmas decorations went up.
HOR313N was a Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R / Alexander AL Type H75D purchased new by Portsmouth Corporation as their 313 in July 1975. Shearings acquired seven of these from Southdown in 1990. HOR313N was being used on the budget service from Arthersley North to Kendray, which is one of the economically poorer areas of Barnsley.
Barnsley Depot was purchased from The Paul Sykes Organisation who were dealers, breakers, exporters and repairers. It had been constructed in 1979 as a coach sales and maintenance depot.