Tag: Luise Rainer

November 28, 2020 / Vickie Lester

Episode 23. Hollywood is apt to make one lose perspective on life. It takes a steady hand to keep your sense of balance… Luise Ranier

We are all the lead character in our personal narrative yet this bothered me. Behind the scenes was my forté, I wasn’t ready for a starring role, never had been. Why was that? And why couldn’t I stop thinking about myself in relation to Cooper? What also bothered me…

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December 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Luise Rainer, Award-Winning Actress, Dies at 104 – NYTimes.com

Luise Rainer, who left Nazi Germany for Hollywood and soared to fame in the 1930s as the first star to win back-to-back Oscars, then quit films at the peak of her career for occasional stage work and roles as a wife, mother and mountain climber, died on Tuesday at her…

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April 16, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

The day after Christmas, early 1930s: William Faulkner (yes, he was married and significantly older) pictured with Meta Carpenter Wilde (secretary to Howard Hawks and later a Script Supervisor). Meta Carpenter Wilde wrote a book in 1976 about her eighteen year relationship – “A Loving Gentleman” – with the storied…

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January 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Incandescent Luise Ranier at 101 — now 104, born January 12, 1910

January 4, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THE GOOD EARTH – BEHIND THE SCENES

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