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- Luise Rainer as Anna Held with William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in the 1936 film “The Great Ziegfeld.”
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Her first American film role was in Escapade in 1935. The following year she was given a supporting part in the musical biography The Great Ziegfeld, where, despite limited appearances, her emotion-filled performance so impressed audiences that she was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Feb 8, 2013 · “The Great Ziegfeld” is a fictionalized biography of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld, played by William Powell. Rainer plays Anna Held, who the film says is Ziegfeld’s first wife. In reality, Held and Ziegfeld lived together for a year while she was getting divorced.
Dec 31, 2014 · Her next film, “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936), a hugely entertaining biography of flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld (1867-1932), was an ode to showmanship with Miss Rainer impersonating Ziegfeld’s first wife, Anna Held (1872-1918), a former famous actress-singer.
Dec 30, 2014 · Luise Rainer as Anna Held with William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in the 1936 film “The Great Ziegfeld.” MGM, via Photofest. By Robert D. McFadden. Dec. 30, 2014.
Dec 30, 2014 · Dunne and Lombard never won Oscars, but their highly worthy comedy performances were overlooked, it seems clear, for a single telephone scene that Rainer has in "The Great Ziegfeld" where her character Anna Held tearfully congratulates her ex-husband Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) on his marriage to Billie Burke .
Luise Rainer. Actress: The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family.
Dec 30, 2014 · She was the first performer to win two Oscars (Best Actress prizes for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld and 1937's The Good Earth ). She was the first performer to win them in consecutive years. At 28,...
