Luise Rainer: MGM star in the mid-1930s. Luise Rainer dead at 104: MGM actress was first two-time and first consecutive Oscar winner in acting categories, and oldest surviving winner The…
Oldest person in movies: Manoel de Oliveira. Oldest person in movies? Following the recent passing of 1931 Dracula actress Carla Laemmle at age 104, there is one less movie centenarian…
Movie stars of the 1930s still alive: Best Actress Oscar winners Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland, Jennifer Jones, Barbra Streisand, and Meryl Streep, and other Oscar-winning actors and actresses at…
Luise Rainer: Oldest living Oscar winner. Luise Rainer: Oldest Living Oscar winner turns 103 today Luise Rainer, the recipient of two back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in the mid-1930s, is the…
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…
Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
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…
Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt in George Cukor’s A Woman’s Face (1941). The first TCM Classic Film Festival has just come to a close, but Turner Classic Movies has already given…
Whitewashing in Hollywood: Ramon Novarro, Helen Hayes, and Louise Closser Hale as Chinese nationals in The Son-Daughter. The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in…
AFI FEST Awards’ top winner was Lee Isaac Chung’s Rwandan genocide film Munyurangabo. In the photo: Jenny Lund, Nash Edgerton, Lauren Greenfield, Jeffrey Schwarz, Andreas Mol Dalsgaard, Michael Addis. Lee…
Oscar curse? Two-time Best Actress Luise Rainer remembers In Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar, Luise Rainer is quoted as saying the following about winning back-to-back Best Actress Academy…
Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer Movies Directed by Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth (1937) is on right now as Turner Classic Movies’ first film presentation of an…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.