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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...
Dec 30, 2014 · Luise Rainer, who left Nazi Germany for Hollywood and soared to fame in the 1930s as the first star to win back-to-back Oscars, then quit films at the peak of her career for occasional stage...
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 · Both Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks have done so in the best actor category, and Jason Robards won two straight supporting actor Oscars. But unlike Hepburn, who enjoyed a long career in...
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 best actress prizes for the 1936 film “The Great Ziegfeld” and “The Good Earth” in 1937.
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Jan 27, 2012 · Rainer won the first of her two Academy Awards 75 years ago. She knew Greta Garbo, Henry Miller, and Albert Einstein. And at 102, she still goes out to the movies
