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Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910 in film|1910
in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a film actress.   She
became an American citizen in the 1940s, but has
lived in the United Kingdom for many years now.

Rainer acted in Max Reinhardt's Vienna theater and
appeared in several German language films before
being discovered by an MGM talent scout in 1935. 
She moved to Hollywood and made her first American
film appearance opposite William Powell in
Escapade (1935). Her next two films won her
consecutive Academy Awards for Academy Award for
Best Actress|Best Actress, first for her portrayal
of actress Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
and next as a China|Chinese peasant in The Good
Earth (movie) | The Good Earth (1937). 

The infamous legend of an Oscar curse probably
originated with Rainer because, following her two
wins, her career virtually ended in Hollywood. She
made a few films in 1938 but all of them were ill
advised and not well received. She refused to be
stereotyped or to knuckle under to the studio
system and studio head Louis B. Mayer was
unsympathetic to her demands for serious roles.
Disenchanted with Hollywood, where she later said
it was impossible to have an intellectual
conversation, she moved to New York City to live
with her husband, playwright Clifford Odets whom
she had married in 1937. Rainer and Odets divorced
three years later after a stormy relationship. She
made one more film appearance in Hostages
(movie)|Hostages in 1943, and abandoned Hollywood
in 1944 when she married publisher Robert Knittel.
They were married until his death in 1989. They
had one daughter. 

Rainer made sporadic television and stage
appearances in the following decades, appearing in
a single episode of the World War II television
series Combat (television)|Combat in 1965, and
took a dual role in an episode of The Love Boat in
1984. She later appeared in the film The Gambler
(1997). She made two appearances at the Academy
Awards ceremonies (in 1998 and 2003) in special
retropective tributes to past winners.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6300 Hollywood Blvd.

==Filmography==
*Yearning 202 (1932)
*Madame Has Visits (1932)
*Heut Kommt's drauf an (1933)
*Escapade (1935)
*The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
*The Good Earth (1937)
*The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
*Big City (1937)
*The Toy Wife (1938)
*The Great Waltz (1938)
*Dramatic School (1938)
*Hostages (1943)
*The Gambler (1997)
*Poem: I Set a Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
(2003)

==External link==
*imdb name|0707023|name= Luise Rainer