Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “S...-”
for threatre, drama, social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational art for the studio.

Norma Shearer
Nell Shipman
Sarah Siddons
Harriet Smithson

Barbara Stanwyck
Meryl Streep

Norma Shearer
b. 8-10-1902; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
d. 6-12-1983; Los Angeles

Norma Shearer was a very popular actress from the mid 1920s through the 1930s. Early in her career she was the “girl-next-door” then became a liberated woman in comedies, finally appearing in historical and period films - all overcoming her own accessment of herself as a “dumpy figure, with shoulders too broad, legs too sturdy, hands too blunt” and having small eyes that appeared crossed because of a “cast” in her right eye.

Norma Shearer was married to film producer Irving Thalberg.

Nell Shipman
née Helen Foster-Barham
b. 10-25-1892; Victoris, British Columbia, Canada
d. 1-23-1970; Cabazon

Nell Shipman was an actress, author and screenwriter, producer, director, and animal trainer.

Sarah Siddons
b. 7-5-1755; Wales
d. 6-8-1831

18th century tragedienne Sarah Siddons was most famous for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth.

FYI ~ Siddons was the aunt of Frances Anne Kemble, and great aunt to Owen Wister, the author of the 1902 western novel, “The Virginian”.

Harriet Smithson
b. 1800; Ennis, Ireland
d. 3-3-1854; France

Irish actress Harriet Smithson was the first wife of composer Hector Berlioz and the inspiration of ‘Symphonie Fantastique’.

Barbara Stanwyck,
née Ruby Catherine Stevens
b. 7-16-1907; New York City
d. 1-20-1990; Santa Monica

Barbara Stanwyck, stage and film actress, is ranked as the all time eleventh greatest female star by the Amercian Film Institute (rule: film debut before 1950).

• Stella Dallas, DVD

Meryl Streep
b. 6-22-1949; Summit, NJ

Barbra Streisand
b. 4-24-1942; Brooklyn, NY

Barbra Streisand, stage and film singer & actress.

• Streisand: Live in Concert

Gloria Swanson
b. 3-27-1899; Chicago, IL
d. 4-4-1983; NYC