Mrs. Culp Revisited: March 31, 1937
She sees "Romeo and Juliet"
"Went to the Victory [theatre] on free ticket and saw Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet, very good," Mrs. Culp wrote. The movie earned Shearer an Oscar nomination for best actress, but she lost to Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld. Shearer, who was 34 at the time, co-starred with Leslie Howard, who was 43, portraying the teen-aged lovers of Shakespear…
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