Date: 30.12.2014 10:50 clock
The former Hollywood actress Luise Rainer has died at the age of 104 years. This was confirmed by her daughter Francesca Knittel-Bowyer The Associated Press. Her mother had died at her home in London with pneumonia.
The actress made in the 1930s in Hollywood sensation and won the first two times in a row an Oscar for Best Actress : 1936 for the film “The Great Ziegfeld” and the following year for “The Good Earth”. Subsequently, however, her career broke off abruptly. Rainer left Hollywood and spent most of her life in Switzerland and England.
It described the double Oscar-winning later than the worst thing that could have happened to her. “It was all about money, money, money. But I wanted to play good roles. I always wanted to be better, to learn more and more,” she said of her 100th birthday of the German Press Agency of Hollywood.
About Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Vienna to Hollywood
Rainer was born in 1910 in Dusseldorf. She grew up in a wealthy family in Hamburg. Their first engagement was at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In 1931 she moves to Max Reinhardt at the Vienna theater. From there, they went to Hollywood.
Her first marriage ended, the actress with the American intellectuals and communists Clifford Odets. The divorce came after a few years. In second marriage she was married to the journalist Robert Knittel, who died in 1989. From this marriage the daughter, who lives in Beverly Hills by the stage name Francesca Bowyer came from.
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