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Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec. As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film roll. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977). They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of the film The Outlaw .
Athole Shearer suffered from bipolar disorderAs categorized by the DSM-IV, bipolar disorder is a form of mood disorder characterised by a variation of mood between a phase of manic or hypomanic elation, hyperactivity and hyper imagination, and a depressive phase of inhibition, slowness to conceive i that went unrecognized for years resulting in her suffering numerous problems. Although she was the most attractive of the two Shearer sisters, her film career was limited to a few bit parts because of her personal difficulties. She spent many years in mental institutions until her illness was properly diagnosed.
Athole Shearer died in 1985 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States. and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park CemeteryForest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn. see also Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery) Forest Lawn was founded in 1917 by Dr. Hubert Eaton on the grounds of a 1913 cemetery. Eaton was a firm believer in a jo in Glendale, CaliforniaGlendale is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is an important suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is bordered to the southwest by.
See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early HollywoodMotion pictures have been a part of the culture of Canada since the beginning. Hollywood and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canadians. At the beginning of the 1900s, young men and women, in
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