Rainer was regarded as “Germany’s non boasts ester Hollywood star”. She was the only German who was awarded the Oscar for best leading role, and she was the first woman twice in a row could take the prize home – which managed to save it today only four other actors. It is also the only one who has been twice honored with 28 years of the Academy.
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Luise Rainer with Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini on the set of “La Dolce Vita”
She herself found her cinematic successes unremarkable. “I got this Oscar, and, well, I had the feeling that a praise of Max Reinhardt would have meant more to me than this Oscar in Hollywood,” Rainer said once the news agency dpa. You’ve never heard before her first Oscar win the award: “It was nothing special, I did not take it very seriously.” For them, always meeting interesting people had been in the forefront. Rainer had contact with prominent contemporaries such as Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway and should Bertolt Brecht during the Second World War have helped with a guarantee of entry into the United States.
Nobody cried so beautiful as she
1935 Rainer in Vienna was discovered by a Hollywood agent and taken from the legendary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios under contract. Your idol Reinhardt had previously brought to the Theater in der Josefstadt. Hollywood came the Vienna-related not inconvenient, but now had the Nazis took power in Germany. Rainer was marketed as an Austrian, their emotional scenes earned her the nickname “Viennese Teardrop” (Wiener tear).
In America, Rainer turned soon after the arrival of her first film “Escapade” on the side of William Powell. She quickly rose to the top league of Hollywood stars and stood in a row with the likes of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. With her second film “The Great Ziegfeld” Rainer won her first Oscar. The following year, she was a Chinese peasant girl in “The Good Earth” again the trophy.
Without acting classes directly was on stage
Rainer daughter of a pianist with Jewish roots and a businessman born in Dusseldorf and grew up in Hamburg and Switzerland. Against the wishes of her father, she pursued her dream of an acting career. Without ever having relevant teaching enjoyed, she has been involved with 18 years at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. After further engagements in Germany Rainer was eventually brought by Reinhardt to the Theater in der Josefstadt. Under his direction, she celebrated in the title role of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” success.
Private luck at the second attempt
Rainer was swarmed by men and married early communist intellectuals Clifford Odets, who himself wrote several scripts and templates to Hollywood films (eg for Fritz Lang). The marriage broke up after three years. Soon after, she married the publisher Robert Knittel. With him Rainer had a daughter and was married until his death 24 years ago, more than 45 years.
Rainer career stagnated soon after her second Academy Award in 1937. The following films flopped with the public. Rainer was also highly idiosyncratic and made out of frustration over the pursuit of profit and the monotony of the roles offered to her at MGM a dramatic finish.
dissipation for Fellini
“Mister Mayer, you are an old man. If I’m like all your great actresses 40, then you are long dead, “she reportedly said to the mighty MGM-founder Louis B. Mayer. Later Rainer proved her own head. A role for “La Dolce Vita” they refused, although it was pleaded by director Federico Fellini. But Rainer did not play a sex scene with Marcello Mastroianni.
Although she continued her film career with smaller productions, Rainer came to the general public into oblivion. Her last appearance was almost 90 years in “The Gambler” based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In recent years she lived in London – in the house where once Vivien Leigh had lived. “I look back on my life,” she said in an interview, “I regret a lot. Especially that I have not worked much, much more. “Her rebellious behavior had cost her Hollywood career. That, however, they should have never regretted
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