Luise Rainer

German-born actress (1910–2014)

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Luise Rainer was a German-born actress who lived from 1910 to 2014 and had a long career spanning most of the twentieth century. She matters because she was a notable figure in film history during a period of significant changes in cinema and entertainment.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1910
Died: 2014
Works: 1

Top works

Property from the estate of Luise Rainer
Saint Joan

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Film & TV

Acting · Düsseldorf, Germany

Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient. Her training began in Germany from the age of 16 by leading stage director Max Reinhardt. After a few years, she became recognized as a "distinguished Berlin stage…

Known for

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood — (archive footage)2019
Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival2011
Hollywood Chinese — Self2007
Ziegfeld on Film — Herself (interviewee, and in clips from The Great Ziegfeld)2004
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me — Actor - Gesang Der Geister Über Den Wassern2003
The Gambler — Grandmother1997
Frank Capra's American Dream — Self (archive footage)1997
That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
Brisant — Self1994
MGM: When the Lion Roars1992

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1965-10-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 158

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces
· 1997 · cited 24,185x
Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard
· 2012 · cited 7,382x
<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,368x
α-Synuclein in Lewy bodies
· 1997 · cited 7,030x
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,734x

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Quotes

“I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.”
“I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.”
“I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.”
“For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.”
“The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.”
“I'll tell you a wonderful story. Coming with all of these ideas that I had, and still have, and still feel because I never change and still believe in the same things. Soon after I was there in Hollywood, for some reason I was at a luncheon with Robert Taylor sitting next to me, and I asked him, ‘Now, what are your ideas or what do you want to do,' and his answer was that he wanted to have 10 good suits to wear, elegant suits of all kinds, that was his idea. I practically fell under the table.”

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date of death: 2014-12-30
Commons category: Luise Rainer
date of birth: 1910-01-12
name in native language: Luise Rainer
Commons gallery: Luise Rainer
start of work period: 1928-00-00
end of work period: 1997-00-00
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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 multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient (and the longest-lived female star from Classic Hollywood), a superlative that has not been exceeded, as of 2026.

Rainer started her acting career in Germany at age 16, under the tutelage of Austria's leading stage director, Max Reinhardt. Within a few years, she had become a distinguished Berlin stage actress with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Critics highly praised the quality of her acting. After years of acting on stage and in films in Austria and Germany, she was discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scouts, who signed her to a three-year contract in Hollywood in 1935. A number of filmmakers predicted she might become another Greta Garbo, MGM's leading female star at the time.