Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg on their wedding day at their home, Beverly Hills, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg on their wedding day at their home, Beverly Hills, 1927

Date Created

Sep 29, 1927

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph published with the article, "Two Film Actresses Wed. Norma Shearer Becomes Mrs. Thalberg and Helene Costello Wife of John Y. Reagan," Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1927: A1.
Photograph taken on Wedding Day of Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer at Irving's home in Beverly Hills (503 Sunset Blvd.). Thalberg was an associate producer at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio at the time and Ms. Shearer was an established actress. She dressed in a simple ivory velvet gown and the ceremony was performed in the Thalberg home.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Wedding bells Rign in Filmland. Romance of the Studio. Mr. and Mrs. Irving C. Thalberg after ceremony of marriage yesterday at the Beverly Hills home of bridegroom.
Text on negative sleeve: Thalberg, Irving & Norma Shearer, wedding, nitrates?; 1929
Handwritten on negative: [left] Irving Thalberg; [right] Norma Shearer

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Brides
Actresses--American--California--Beverly Hills
Weddings--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Beverly Hills

Names

Thalberg, Irving, 1899-1936
Shearer, Norma, 1900-1983

Location

Beverly Hills (Calif.)

Longitude

34.084047

Latitude

-118.409070

Resource type

still image