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

Date

1927-09-29

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 on negative sleeve: Thalberg, Irving & Norma Shearer, wedding, nitrates?; 1929
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.
Handwritten on negative: [left] Irving Thalberg; [right] Norma Shearer

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

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

Location

Beverly Hills (Calif.)

Longitude

34.084047

Latitude

-118.409070

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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