Luise Rainer, Hollywood golden era Oscar winner, dies aged 104

BBC News ^ | 12/30/2014

[Borges]

[Perdogg]

RIP

[Dr. Ursus]

The Good Earth is one of my favorites.

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LUISE RANER AS O LAN IN THE GOOD EARTH

HER MOST RECENT PUBLIC PHOTO

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was a kinder, gentler time...

[miss marmelstein]

Hello, Flo!

[Dr. Ursus]

Also,Paul Muni is one of my favorite actors.

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LUISE RAINER AND PAUL MUNI AS O LAN AND WANG IN THE GOOD EARTH, FOR WHICH RAINER WON AN OSCAR (1937)

[bigdaddy45]

uhhh.... it was? Are you at all familiar with “World War II”?

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RAINER's LAST FILM WAS "THE GAMBLER" (1997), SHE WAS 87 THEN.

[bandleader]

Mine too!I was thinking of that picture when I saw he r name.

[greene66]

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.

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LUISE RAINER 2013 AT THE OSCAR's RED CARPET

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We won that one.
Since then, not so much...

[buckeye49]

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!!

[buwaya]

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.

[Deo volente]

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

[fieldmarshaldj]

Heck of a run. RIP to Miss Rainer.

[buckeye49]

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!!!