Luise Rainer
Gender: Female
Born: 12th January 1910 (currently 102 years old)
Nationality: Germany, United States of America
TV programs: MGM: When the Lion Roars
Movies: The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld, Dramatic School, The Great Waltz, Big City, The Toy Wife, The Emperor's Candlesticks, Sehnsucht 202, The Gambler, Escapade, Hollywood Chinese, Another Romance of Celluloid
Luise Rainer (born 12 January 1910) is a former German film actress. Known as The "Viennese Teardrop", she was the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them consecutively. She was discovered by MGM talent scouts while acting on stage in Austria and Germany and after appearing in Austrian films. Aged 102, she is currently the oldest living Academy Award winner.
Her training began in Germany from the age of 16 by leading Austrian stage director Max Reinhardt. After a few years, she became recognized as a "distinguished Berlin stage actress", acting with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Critics "raved" about her stage and film acting quality, leading MGM to sign her to a three-year contract and bring her to Hollywood in 1935. A number of filmmakers anticipated she might become another Greta Garbo, MGM's leading female star.
Her first American role was in the film Escapade (1935), which was soon followed with a relatively small part in the musical biopic The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Despite her limited appearances in the film, she "so impressed audiences" that she won the Oscar for Best Actress. For her dramatic telephone scene in the film, she was later
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