Revisiting an interview with the legendary two-time Oscar winner, who was also a wife of Clifford Odets, a friend of Albert Einstein, a rival of Greta Garbo, a target of Louis B. Mayer — and the first victim of "the Oscar curse"
I interviewed Luise Rainer in London in 2009, back when she was only 99 years old. Rainer, the first person ever to win two acting Oscars — which happened to come in back-to-back years, for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and for The Good Earth (1937), and just a couple of years before her Hollywood caree...
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