Luise Rainer
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Luise Rainer 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 birt
Rainer in 1941
Rainer publicity photo in 1936
Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Anna Held (Rainer) exhibits her jewels to the envious Audrey Dane (Virginia Bruce, seated) in The Great Ziegfeld
Clifford Odets
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Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began t
Luise Rainer
…career, soon returning to Europe. Adding to her rapid decline, some feel, was the poor career advice she received from her then-husband, playwright Clifford Odets, along with the unexpected death in 1936 at age 37 of her producer, Irving Thalberg, whom she greatly admired. Some film historians consider her the…
Odets in 1938
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1937
Luise Rainer and Clifford Odets in January 1937, shortly before their marriage