Tuesday, at age 104, Oscar's first back to back Oscar winner passed away.
Luise Rainer was one of the most revered and respected actresses of the golden age of Hollywood. Her early success actually brought her acting career to a halt shortly after the 1930s, only to be resumed on a few occasions.
She was the first performer to win multiple acting Oscars, the first in 1936's The Great Ziegfeld, which also won Best Picture. As a relative newcomer, she beat out Hollywood starlet Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet, who was actually expected to win her second Oscar based on sympathy votes for the loss of her Husband, Hollywood super-producer Irving Thalberg.
Shortly before she won, she appeared in the release of The Good Earth, which was actually Thalberg's last film. The film adaptation of the great novel by Pearl S. Buck stands as one of the great films of the mid-1930s and helped her not only earn press for her Great Ziegfeld nomination, but actually earned her another Oscar the following year as well.
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