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Luise Rainer‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1910-01-12

Popularity

star2.7

Luise Rainer

Düsseldorf, Germany

Luise Rainer

Düsseldorf, Germany

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1910-01-12

Popularity

star2.7

Biography

Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient. Her training began in Germany from the age of 16 by leading stage director Max Reinhardt. After a few years, she became recognized as a "distinguished Berlin stage actress", acting with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Critics "raved" about her stage and film acting quality, leading MGM to sign her to a three-year contract and bring her to Hollywood in 1935. A number of filmmakers anticipated she might become another Greta Garbo, MGM's leading female star. Her first American role was in the film Escapade (1935), which was soon followed with a relatively small part in the musical biopic The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Despite her limited appearances in the film, she "so impressed audiences" that she won the Oscar for Best Actress. For her dramatic telephone scene in the film, she was later dubbed "the Viennese teardrop". In her next role, producer Irving Thalberg was convinced, despite the studio's disagreement, that she could play the part of a poor uncomely Chinese farm wife in The Good Earth, based on Pearl Buck's novel about hardship in China. The subdued character she played was such a dramatic contrast to her previous, vivacious character, that she won another Academy Award, even with Greta Garbo as one of the nominees. However, she would later remark that by winning two consecutive Oscars, "nothing worse could have happened to me," as audience expectations from then on would be too high to fulfill. She was then given parts in a string of unimportant movies, leading MGM and Rainer to become disappointed, and she ended her brief three-year career in films, soon returning to Europe. Adding to her rapid decline, some feel, was the "poor career advice" given her by then husband, playwright Clifford Odets, along with the unexpected death, at age 37, of her producer, Irving Thalberg, whom she greatly admired. Some film historians consider her the "most extreme case of an Oscar victim in Hollywood mythology". She currently lives in London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luise Rainer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Movie Credits

The Good Earth

The Good Earth‌
star6.2
calendar 1937

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld‌
star6.2
calendar 1936

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz‌
star5.5
calendar 1938

Big City

Big City‌
star7.4
calendar 1937

The Emperor's Candlesticks

The Emperor's Candlesticks‌
star5.2
calendar 1937

The Toy Wife

The Toy Wife‌
star4.8
calendar 1938

Escapade

Escapade‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood‌
star6.0
calendar 2019

The Gambler

The Gambler‌
star4.8
calendar 1997

Dramatic School

Dramatic School‌
star6.2
calendar 1938

Madame has a visitor

Madame has a visitor‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Heut' kommt's drauf an

Heut' kommt's drauf an‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Hostages

Hostages‌
star6.0
calendar 1943

Sehnsucht 202

Sehnsucht 202‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

A Dancer

A Dancer‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

Ziegfeld on Film

Ziegfeld on Film‌
star5.7
calendar 2004

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me‌
star9.0
calendar 2003

Hollywood Chinese

Hollywood Chinese‌
star0.0
calendar 2007

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards‌
star6.5
calendar 1940

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III‌
star6.9
calendar 1994

The Romance of Celluloid

The Romance of Celluloid‌
star7.0
calendar 1937

Another Romance of Celluloid

Another Romance of Celluloid‌
star5.0
calendar 1938

Frank Capra's American Dream

Frank Capra's American Dream‌
star6.2
calendar 1997

Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival‌
star0.0
calendar 2011

Tv Credits

Combat!

Combat!‌
star7.6
calendar 1962

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

MGM: When the Lion Roars

MGM: When the Lion Roars‌
star7.7
calendar 1992

Suspense

Suspense‌
star4.2
calendar 1949

The Oscars

The Oscars‌
star7.0
calendar 1953

The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre

The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

The Love Boat

The Love Boat‌
star6.3
calendar 1977

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Boulevard Bio

Boulevard Bio‌
star6.0
calendar 1991

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany‌
star9.0
calendar 1975

Brisant

Brisant‌
star5.3
calendar 1994