Luise Rainer (1910 - 2014)

German born actress. First woman to win two Academy Awards.

* January 12, 1910 Düsseldorf, Germany
 December 30, 2014 London, England



Vintage magazines

Filmwelt, nr. 4, 22. Januar 1933
Photoplay, January 1936
Photoplay, January 1936

Photoplay, February 1936
Photoplay, February 1936
Photoplay, April 1936

Photoplay, June 1936
Photoplay, June 1936
Mein Film, nr. 618, 29 X 1937

Visages et contes du cinéma, nr. 26 1938
Visages et contes du cinéma, nr. 26 1938

Books with substantial mentioning of Luise Rainer

Leo Verswijver Movies Were Always Magical Leo Verswijver
Movies Were Always Magical, Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the 1930s through the 1950s
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers The MGM Stock Company James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
The MGM Stock Company, The Golden Era
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Books with an entry on Luise Rainer

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Interviews

Harry Haun, Luise Rainer, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 333-336, 370

Articles with substantial mentioning of Luise Rainer

Judith Prokasky, Eintagsjobs als "Nazisse", Anti-Nazi-Filme und Deutsche Filmemigranten (3): Exilierte Schauspielerinnen, in: Filmdienst, nr. 26, 2010 pp. 26-28