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Louise Rainer, 102, Oldest Surviving Best Actress Oscar Winner

Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:34 AM EST
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Louise (Luise) Rainer (aka The Vienna Teardrop) is the oldest surviving Oscar recipient at 102 years of age, and the first woman to win back-to-back best actress Oscars - for her part in the 1936 film The Great Zeigfeld and for the 1937 film The Good Earth.

Those two parts were diametrically opposed in virtually every way.  The beautiful talkative vamp she was in Zeigfeld changed to the humble almost speechless plain Chinese farm wife in The Good Earth.  She is still lucid and active, living in London.  This link and the links within it provide a comprehensive description of her life.

http://www.luiserainer.net/

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She also acted in Trouble in Paradise (which my son gave to me as a present knowing I loved classic films), and in The Great Waltz, which is about Strauss, and not to be confused with The Last Waltz which is about The Band, Dylan, etc. At a bookstore in China I bought what I thought was The Last Waltz, because it was packaged as such, but on opeining it discovered it was The Great Waltz.

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Reply#1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:43 AM EST
proglib

Your Great Waltz anecdote is funny. :-)

The Screen Actors Guild just did a wonderful tribute to Louise Rainer in a special issue of their publication.

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#1.1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:46 PM EST
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