“Damn, she doesn´t wear any underwear in her scenes,” Clark Gable told his friends. “Is she doing that in interest of realism or what?”

Gable was at the outset of his career when he made A Free Soul. The dame sans underwear was his boss`s wife, and his befuddlement was understandable.  […]

No one did lust on screen like Norma Shearer. She was the complete lady, completely on fire. It was a combination that appealed to Alfred Hitchcock, who looked for Shearer types for his pictures. “Where are the Norma Shearers?” he would say.”

Mick LaSalle, Complicated Women