Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/ RY-nər, German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ]; 12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win...
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Maria-Luise Rainer (born 23 April 1959 in South Tyrol) is an Italian luger who competed between the late 1970s and the late 1980s. Rainer won the bronze...
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The film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also won the Academy...
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William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke. The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934). Set somewhere in Vienna in the 1900s...
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the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet (Gravey), and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence...
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Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, and Norma Shearer, who became his wife. He had the ability to combine...
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and hymnwriter Maria Luise von Quistorp (10 June 1928 - 29 April 2016[citation needed]), wife of Wernher von Braun Maria-Luise Rainer (born 1959), an Italian...
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. The mind and talent were alive in the man." Odets married actress Luise Rainer in January 1937, just months before she won her first of two consecutive...
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Sharp Becky Sharp Merle Oberon Kitty Vane The Dark Angel 1936 (9th) Luise Rainer ‡ Anna Held The Great Ziegfeld Irene Dunne Theodora Lynn / Caroline Adams...
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American romantic drama film directed by Robert B. Sinclair and starring Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, and Gale Sondergaard. Based...
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Earth. For her portrayal of the character in the 1937 film adaptation, Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is a slave of the House of...
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win Best Picture, following the previous year's The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer received the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Good Earth, earning...
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Powell (1929–2021) Marie Prevost (1896–1937) Edna Purviance (1895–1958) Luise Rainer (1910–2014) Vera Ralston (1919–2003) Martha Raye (1916–1994) Donna Reed...
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Norman Taurog, respectively). He set this record just one year after Luise Rainer became the first female, and actress in general, to win "bookend Oscars"...
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stars, tapping Europeans Paul Muni and Luise Rainer for the lead roles. Both had won Oscars the previous year: Rainer for her role in The Great Ziegfeld and...
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Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film was notable for its casting of Luise Rainer. The Oscar-winning actress had not made a film in fifty-four years prior...
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is a 1938 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Luise Rainer and Melvyn Douglas. The period film was produced by Merian C. Cooper...
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the Academy Award mean, for God's sake? After all – Luise Rainer won it two times. Luise Rainer!": 123 The U.S. Library of Congress selected Double...
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Universal, then was the romantic male lead in Dramatic School (1938) with Luise Rainer at MGM, a big flop. He played a similar sort of part in Four Girls in...
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(having won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner the previous year), after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth), and Spencer Tracy...
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based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Stefan Heym. The film stars Luise Rainer, Arturo de Córdova, William Bendix and Paul Lukas and features Katina...
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voters had been brainwashed by its lush gaudiness; they also felt that Luise Rainer's win of Best Actress for her performance was unjustified due to the short...
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(1936) tells a sanitized version of the Ziegfeld-Held relationship. Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for her performance as Held. Ziegfeld and Burke...
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the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. MGM instead cast Luise Rainer to play the leading role in yellowface. One biographer believes that...
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Simon Oakland Warren Oates Margaret O'Brien Michael Pataki Andrew Prine Luise Rainer Wayne Rogers Gilbert Roland Mickey Rooney Bobby Rydell Telly Savalas...
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Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Bullets over Broadway (1994) 2 3 Luise Rainer † The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Good Earth (1937) 2 2 Vivien Leigh †...
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IMDb Deadline-Patrick Kennedy cast as lead in HBO Pilot Hollywood Reporter- HBO's the Money casts Patrick Kennedy My Friendship with Luise Rainer [1]...
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residents, amongst others, include John Entenza, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Luise Rainer, Clifford Odets, and Orson Welles. The building is a part of a collection...
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is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy. The film was also released as Skyscraper Wilderness...
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