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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Luise Rainer</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/luise-rainer/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:22:22 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Luise Rainer: Oldest Living (Two-Time) Oscar Winner Turns 102</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/luise-rainer-turns-100-114/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/luise-rainer-turns-100-114/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:42:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20697</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frank Capra, Luise Rainer, George Jessel Luise Rainer turns 102 today, January 12. She is the oldest living Academy Award winner in the acting categories, having won two consecutive Best Actress Oscars for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). Because of both her longevity and the fact that Turner Classic Movies regularly shows nearly all of her films, the Dusseldorf-born (some sources [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/luise-rainer-turns-100-114/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Vanessa Redgrave Academy Salute Pt.2: Paddy Chayefsky Denounces Political Oscar Speeches</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/paddy-chayefsky-vanessa-redgrave-oscar-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/paddy-chayefsky-vanessa-redgrave-oscar-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35702</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vanessa Redgrave Academy Salute: From Pariah to Honoree [Photo: Vanessa Redgrave, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Natasha Richardson, as ballerina Isadora Duncan in Isadora.] Later on, at the behest of producer Daniel Melnick (Straw Dogs, Making Love) screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (The Goddess, Network) prefaced his announcement of the Best Screenwriting Oscar with the following (also via Inside Oscar): Before I get on to the writing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/paddy-chayefsky-vanessa-redgrave-oscar-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Winner THE GREAT ZIEGFELD: American Cinematheque Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winner-the-great-ziegfeld-luise-rainer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winner-the-great-ziegfeld-luise-rainer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:28:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35177</guid> <description><![CDATA[Luise Rainer as Anna Held, The Great Ziegfeld Best Picture Academy Award winner The Great Ziegfeld (1936) will be screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Robert Z. Leonard directed this sumptuous MGM production, starring William Powell as theatrical showman Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Ziegfeld's wife Billie Burke (the good witch Glinda in The Wizard of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winner-the-great-ziegfeld-luise-rainer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jackie Cooper Pt.2: SUPERMAN&#039;s Perry White, Two-Time Emmy Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jackie-cooper-superman-perry-white-emmy-winner/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jackie-cooper-superman-perry-white-emmy-winner/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26983</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, Lionel Barrymore as Billy Bones in Victor Fleming's Treasure Island Jackie Cooper Dies: Youngest Best Actor Oscar Nominee, SKIPPY, THE CHAMP A series of programmers followed, among them Two Bright Boys (1939), once again pairing up Jackie Cooper with Freddie Bartholomew &#8212; who by then was sliding fast as well &#8212; and What a Life (1939), with Betty Field. In [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jackie-cooper-superman-perry-white-emmy-winner/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Two-Time Oscar Winner Luise Rainer: Julia Roberts, THE KING&#039;S SPEECH Fan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-julia-roberts-the-kings-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-julia-roberts-the-kings-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:38:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26434</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in Sidney Franklin's The Good Earth Luise Rainer Reminisces: The Oscars, Greta Garbo, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway &#8211; Part I Why did she leave Hollywood in 1938, after only nine films? (Actually, eight at MGM from 1935-1938; she then quit Hollywood, but returned for one, Hostages, at Paramount in 1943.) Luise Rainer explains: &#34;I felt the work in films that I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-julia-roberts-the-kings-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Luise Rainer Reminisces: The Oscars, Greta Garbo, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-oscars-greta-garbo-albert-einstein-ernest-hemingway/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-oscars-greta-garbo-albert-einstein-ernest-hemingway/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26433</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frank Capra, Luise Rainer, George Jessel at the 1937 Oscar ceremony, held at the Biltmore Hotel Luise Rainer, the 101-year-old, two-time Academy Award winner, was just recently interviewed by BBC entertainment reporter Colin Patterson. (You can listen to the interview here.) During the eight-minute chat, the Düsseldorf-born (Jan. 12, 1910) Rainer, whose speech lilt hasn't changed a bit since the 1930s, talks about her Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-oscars-greta-garbo-albert-einstein-ernest-hemingway/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Luise Rainer, 101, on TCM: THE GREAT ZIEGFELD, THE GREAT WALTZ, DRAMATIC SCHOOL</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-the-great-ziegfeld-dramatic-school-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-the-great-ziegfeld-dramatic-school-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:32:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25991</guid> <description><![CDATA[Luise Rainer as Florenz Ziegfeld's wife Anna Held in Robert Z. Leonard's The Great Ziegfeld (I believe Virginia Bruce is the first girl on the left) (top); Luise Rainer in Julien Duvivier's The Great Waltz (bottom) Directed by Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth (1937) is on right now as Turner Classic Movies' first film presentation of an evening dedicated to two-time Academy Award winner Luise [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-the-great-ziegfeld-dramatic-school-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Two-Time Oscar Winner Luise Rainer Interview on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-interview-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-interview-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25990</guid> <description><![CDATA[At 5 p.m. PT, Turner Classic Movies will present a Special special: Luise Rainer, two-time Academy Award winner and centenarian (101 years old today, to be exact), will be talking about her life and career. That's because TCM will be presenting the interview Robert Osborne conducted with Rainer at last year's TCM Film Festival held in Hollywood. Rainer is notable for a variety of reasons. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/luise-rainer-interview-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Anthony Slide Interview II: Hollywood Fan Magazines, Scandals, and Innuendos</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 12:32:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudette Colbert drawing by James Montgomery Flagg on Photoplay; two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer, whose "tempestuous life" is described in the magazine, turned 100 last January INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE: Interview with Anthony Slide Part I I recall reading a quite negative and personal story in The New Movie Magazine written by columnist Herbert Howe about MGM star Ramon Novarro. How could something like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TCM Classic Film Festival 2011 Announced; Two-Time Oscar Winner Luise Rainer at the 2010 Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tcm-classic-film-festival-luise-rainer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tcm-classic-film-festival-luise-rainer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24047</guid> <description><![CDATA[Luise Rainer in Sidney Franklin's The Good Earth (1937) (top); Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (upper middle); Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) (lower middle); Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt in George Cukor's A Woman's Face (1941) (bottom) The first TCM Classic Film Festival [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tcm-classic-film-festival-luise-rainer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ethnicity in Film: Luise Rainer, Nancy Kwan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ethnicity-film-luise-rainer-nancy-kwan-91110/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ethnicity-film-luise-rainer-nancy-kwan-91110/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:27:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou's The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong's 2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, which discusses how Caucasian actors usually played major Chinese roles in American movies up to the not-too-distant past. Among those featured in Hollywood Chinese, whether in clips or as talking [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ethnicity-film-luise-rainer-nancy-kwan-91110/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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