Still of Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
																																				
						Actress, Soundtrack
						Born: January 12, 1910
						Star sign: Capricorn
						Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
						Known for: The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Good Earth (1937), The Great Waltz (1938), Big City (1937)
						Source: IMDB
						Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family. Her parents were Emilie (Königsberger) and Heinrich Rainer, a businessman. She took to the stage, and plied her craft on the boards in Germany. As a young actress, she was discovered by the legendary ...