LUISE RAINER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 132041
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
LUISE RAINER
The actress signs a sepia publicity photograph of her sitting in a chair
Inscribed Photograph signed: (on verso) "To Viola - with all the/hope and all the best and
warmest/wishes, for you -/and for me as well/Luise", in blue ink, sepia, 3¾x5½. Born in Vienna,
Luise Rainer (1910-2014) was awarded successive Best Actress Academy Awards for The
Great Ziegfeld (1936, which also earned her the moniker "The Viennese Teardrop") and The
Good Earth (1937). She was the first woman to win two Oscars, and the first actor to win
two consecutive ones. She later considered the back-to-back Oscar wins a misfortune, raising
expectations too high, and she is considered by many the most glaring example of the "Oscar
jinx." She moved from the U.S. to England in the early 1940s and largely retired from film.
Her patron, producer Irving Thalberg had died, and MGM head Louis B. Mayer did not like
her. She reappeared years later on TV, even starring in an episode of The Love Boat
(1984), and played a grandmother in the 1997 film The Gambler. Impressions of writing
lightly show through on photograph. Verso is lightly soiled, stray pencil marks at upper
margin. Otherwise, fine condition.
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