NEW YORK (JTA) — Luise Rainer, the first actress to win back-to-back Academy Awards, died on Tuesday at her London home. She was 104. The daughter of a middle-class Jewish family that later ...

When 28-year-old Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Good Earth, just a year after winning the same award for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld, she became the youngest ...

Only three individuals have clinched two Oscars before turning 30: Luise Rainer earned back to back Oscars by the time she was 28 for "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) and "The Good Earth" (1937); Jodie ...

Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie ...

Luise Rainer's performance in 'The Great Ziegfeld' is an extraordinary and memorable portrayal, even though she only appears in 20% of the film. Peter Finch delivers an iconic line delivery and a ...

Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was ...