Posted on 12/30/2014 6:59:04 AM PST by Borges
Actress Luise Rainer, who became the first winner of consecutive Oscars in the 1930s, has died at the age of 104.
The German-born star was named best actress in 1936 and 1937 - a feat achieved by only five actors in Academy Awards history to date.
Her achievement made her a force in the golden age of Hollywood cinema, but was also a curse, making her last major film in 1943.
She settled in London and made occasional appearances on film and TV.
Rainer appeared in US small screen series The Loveboat in 1984, while her last substantial film role came in 1998, playing opposite Michael Gambon and Dominic West in The Gambler.
The actress appeared in a number of German films before being talent-spotted by Hollywood studio MGM and making her debut in 1935.
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RIP
The Good Earth is one of my favorites.
It was a kinder, gentler time...
Hello, Flo!
Also,Paul Muni is one of my favorite actors.
uhhh.... it was? Are you at all familiar with “World War II”?
Mine too!I was thinking of that picture when I saw he r name.
Met her once, about twenty-five years ago. Very elegant lady, in the old-fashioned way you don’t see anymore. 104 years, quite a run. She made a big splash in high-profile MGM films for a few short, short years, but not seen much afterwards. I do recall she had a nice role in a “Combat” episode, though, in the 1960s.
We won that one.
Since then, not so much...
When I was 12 I checked THE GOOD EARTH out at the library. I was half way through it when my mother asked what I was reading. When I told her she had a hissy and took it away!! I was dumfounded and never did figure out what she was talking about. Of course when i got older I finished it. I don’t believe I ever did see the film but when I saw her name I immediately thought THE GOOD EARTH!!
That’s funny!
We had that book at home, on my moms bookshelf, and I read it at 12. She said it was a pretty good book.
That was @50 years ago.
The “Combat” episode from 1965 is on YouTube. Great acting, wonderful screen presence.
Here’s the second of three parts from that show. The other segments are linked on the side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICEotvC4Wq8
Heck of a run. RIP to Miss Rainer.
I think it may have been the childbirth scene with the tub of blood under tje bed, but little did she know, I had already read that part!! She was funny that way. Yes, that was 53 years ago for me!!!
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