The blissful pair pictured above who are gazing fondly into each other's eyes, while California calls (not entirely unheeded) in the background, are Norma Shearer, smartest of film actresses, and her husband, Irving Thalberg, head of production for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company.

Born in Montreal, Miss Shearer came to New York in 1920 to enter the films, which, after a bit of involuntary banting, she did. Ultimately, she achieved Hollywood. There she met her future husband, and legend has it that at first his youthful appearance led her into thinking he was an office boy, a faux-pas she finally lived down by marrying him three years later.

It is announced that Miss Shearer's next film will be either Strange Interlude or Smilin' Through