for the lead role
... that actress Norma Shearer posed for a glamor photoshoot to convince her producer-husband Irving Thalberg that her sexual allure would translate to film for the lead role in The Divorcee?
... that actress <a href="./Norma_Shearer" id="mwB0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Norma Shearer">Norma Shearer</a> posed for a glamor photoshoot to convince her producer-husband <a href="./Irving_Thalberg" id="mwB0E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irving Thalberg">Irving Thalberg</a> <i id="mwB0I">(both pictured)</i> that her sexual allure would translate to film <b id="mwB0M"><a href="./Norma_Shearer_filmography" id="mwB0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Norma Shearer filmography">for the lead role</a></b> in <i id="mwB0U"><a href="./The_Divorcee" id="mwB0Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Divorcee">The Divorcee</a></i>?