LUISE RAINER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 74501
Price: $180.00
LUISE RAINER
The actress is shown with William Powell in a still from the film The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
Photograph signed: "Best wishes/Luis Rainer", in blue ink, b/w, 10x8. Still from the 1936
film, The Great Ziegfeld, for which Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for
her portrayal of Anna Held, a European stage star who first headlines the Ziegfeld Follies
and then marries Ziegfeld (portrayed by William Powell, who is also pictured). The
talented 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. Lightly rippled. Stained at signature (all legible), facial images and upper right
background. Lightly soiled at blank margins. Otherwise, fine condition.
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