Luise Rainer (12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-American-British film actress
Born in Germany and raised in Austria, she started her career with appearances on film in both countries and moved to America in 1935 during The Golden Age of Hollywood. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role twice— the ninth for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and the tenth for The Good Earth (1937).
She passed away at age 104 in 2014.
Filmography:
Films — Live-Action- Sehnsucht 202 (1932), as Kitty
- Madame hat Besuch (1932)
- Today Is The Day (1933), as Marita Costa
- Escapade (1935), as Leopoldine Dur
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936), as Anna Held
- The Good Earth (1937), as O-Lan
- The Emperors Candlesticks (1937), as Countess Olga Mironova
- Big City (1937), as Anna Benton
- The Toy Wife (1938), as Gilberte 'Frou Frou' Brigard
- The Great Waltz (1938), as Poldi Vogelhuber
- Dramatic School (1938), as Louise Mauban
- Hostages (1943), as Milada Pressinger
- The Gambler (1997), as Grandmother
- Poem — Ich setzte den Fuß in die Luft und sie trug (2003), As Herself
Live-Action TV
- The Love Boat (1976), as Judy and Julie McCoy
Tropes found in her works:
- Acting for Two: She plays both a socialite and her long-lost twin sister, who was a maid on the boat, in The Love Boat.
- Really Dead Montage: She was featured in the 2015 edition of "TCM Remembers".
- Yellowface: Through makeup, she passed off as a Chinese character named O-Lan in The Good Earth.
