The Resume

(August 10, 1902-June 12, 1983)
Died in Woodland Hills, California
Acted in 'The Flapper (1920),' 'A Clouded Name (1923),' 'Pleasure Mad(1923),' 'Broadway After Dark (1924),' 'After Midnight (1927),' 'Their Own Desire (1929),' 'Romeo and Juliet (1936),' 'Escape (1940)' and 'Anniversary (1963)'
Died from pneumonia

Why she might be annoying:

She was in beauty pageants, winning one when she was fourteen.
She was rejected for a role in 'Follies.'
She was married to Irving G. Thalberg, who set her high up on the MGM ladder.
Irving G. Thalberg was a control freak towards her.
Her second husband was ten years younger than her.
In the last decade of her life, she was in poor health and chose to retire from stardom.

Why she might not be annoying:

She won the 1929-30 Oscar for Best Actress 'The Divorcee.'
She married twice, first ending at her husband's death and second ending at her death.
Her mother was actress Edith Shearer and her siblings were actress Athole Shearer and director Douglas Shearer.
She is said to have discovered actress Janet Leigh.

Credit: Skunk Butt

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Auditioned to Portray Scarlett O'Hara
• Best Actress Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1930)
• Box Office Poison
• Canada's Walk of Fame
• Clark Gable's Leading Ladies
• Ernst Lubitsch Films
• Fag Hags [Women Loved by Gay Men]
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• Flappers
• Footprints in Mann's Theater - Female
• Harvard Lampoon's Worst Actress of the Year (Ranked: 1939)
• I Attended Jean Harlow’s Funeral [June 7, 1937]
• I Attended the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Gone With the Wind’ [December 28, 1939]
• I Attended the Premiere of Disney’s ‘Snow White’ [1937]
• I Attended the Premiere of 'Don Juan' [1926]
• I Attended the Premiere of 'Marie Antoinette' [1938]
• I Come from Canada
• I Died in 1983 (Ranked: 80)
• I Had Pneumonia
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[R-T]
• I Like to Dress All in Red
• I Portrayed Juliet
• I Portrayed Marie Antoinette
• I Probably Banged Clark Gable
• I Probably Banged Howard Hughes
• I'm Buried at Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery [Calif]
• Known By a Middle Name
• Lon Chaney’s Leading Ladies
• Look at Me, I'm Leading the Cheers
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• Pauline Kael Doesn't Like Me
• Profiles 7251-7500 (Ranked: 7333)
• Recluses
• Secret Annex Wall Photos [Anne Frank House]
• Skunk Butt/Rebecca's Profiles [Series 4]
• Top Box Office Stars of 1932 (Ranked: 6)
• Top Box Office Stars of 1933 (Ranked: 9)
• Top Box Office Stars of 1934 (Ranked: 10)
• Top Ten Box Office Stars of the 1930s (Ranked: 7)
• Women Who Kept Their Maiden Name After Marriage [Lucy Stoners]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 35 Votes: 5.71% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 11.11% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 19 Votes: 5.26% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 31 Votes: 54.84% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 43 Votes: 74.42% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 94 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 65 Votes: 47.69% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 62 Votes: 35.48% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 100 Votes: 33.00% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 121 Votes: 44.63% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 130 Votes: 49.23% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 284 Votes: 44.37% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 328 Votes: 46.04% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 448 Votes: 43.97% Annoying