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The next year, as a Chinese peasant in the Pearl Buck saga “The Good Earth” (1937), she won again, becoming at 28 the first actor to win back-to-back Oscars. But Rainer was not a conventional ...
The award made her the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two wins thirty years later. In later years, however, Rainer felt that winning the two Oscars so early may have been the "worst possible thing" to befall her career.
Dec 30, 2014 · Luise Rainer, the German-born, Max Reinhardt-trained film actress who made history by being the first performer to win two Academy Awards, only to see her career effectively end a handful of...
Dec 30, 2014 · A year later, Ms. Rainer won her second best actress Oscar for the role of O-Lan, the stoical peasant wife in “The Good Earth,” with Paul Muni as her husband, Wang Lung.
Dec 30, 2014 · Luise Rainer, who won back-to-back Oscars in the 1930s for “The Great Ziegfeld” and “The Good Earth” only to quit Hollywood at the height of her fame, has died. She was 104.
Dec 30, 2014 · By Andreas Rentz/Getty. For years, Luise Rainer held four Oscar records. She was the first performer to win two Oscars (Best Actress prizes for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld and 1937's The...
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Dec 30, 2014 · The big-eyed, apple-cheeked Rainer gained Hollywood immortality by becoming the first person to win an acting Academy Award in consecutive years, taking the best-actress prize for The Great...
