Luise Rainer

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 first two-time and first consecutive Academy Award winner in the…

Oldest person in movies? (Image: Manoel de Oliveira) Following the recent passing of 1931 Dracula actress Carla Laemmle at age 104, there is one less movie centenarian still around. So, in mid-June 2014, who is the oldest person in movies?…

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 the 2003 Academy Awards. Jennifer Jones, who was seen in…

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 oldest living Academy Award winner in the acting categories. In…

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 Awards for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth…

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…

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 either to Venice or Telluride? Don’t despair. L.A. has its…

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…

Luise Rainer Movies 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 Rainer, who turns 101 today. See also: Luise…

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…

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…

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 Safy Nebbou’s The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong’s…