Actress Norma Shearer and MGM producer Irving Thalberg were married on September 29, 1927 at Thalberg’s home, 9419 Sunset Boulevard attended by about fifty guests. The ceremony was performed by Rabbi Edgar Magnin in the garden beneath a canopy of chrysanthemums. Norma was dressed in a gown of ivory velvet, and was given in marriage by her brother, Douglas Shearer. Louis B. Mayer acted as best man, while the maid of honor was Sylvia Thalberg, Irving’s sister.
The Shearer-Thalberg wedding party
BACKSTORY While she was finishing The Student Prince, Norma Shearer received a call summoning her to the office of movie bigwig Irving Thalberg who she had been dating She entered to find Thalberg sitting at his desk before a tray of diamond engagement rings. He granted her the option to choose her own ring; she picked out the biggest. After weeks of rumors, provoked by wearing the ring, it was announced in August 1927 that the couple was to wed. On September 29, 1927, they were married in the Hollywood wedding of the year. They moved in with his mother. Before they were married Shearer converted to Judaism so that she could marry Thalberg.