Rainer has more difficulty, since her features are not so receptive to Oriental makeup. Yet a good actress overcomes these things, and Luise Rainer is an actress. Connolly as the semi-villainous ...

Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12 ... that she could play the part of a poor uncomely Chinese farm wife in The Good Earth, based on Pearl Buck's novel about hardship in China.

Rainer, the daughter of a middle-class Jewish ... 1936 and 1937 for her roles in “The Great Ziegfeld” and “The Good Earth” respectively. She quickly became disenchanted with Hollywood ...

When 28-year-old Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Good Earth, just a year after winning the same award for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld, she became the youngest ...