Luise Rainer Dead At 104: Actress Was First Back-To-Back Oscar Winner

The German-born star of The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth , Luise Rainer, died Tuesday at her home in London. She was 104. The Associated Press reports that Rainer's daughter Francesca Knittel-Bowyer said the Oscar winner succumbed to pneumonia. Rainer won consecutive Oscars for both 1936's The Great Ziegfeld and 1937's The Good Earth, becoming the first actor ever to do so. Rainer was born in 1910 and was discovered by MGM in the mid-30s after appearing in some…



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