Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes her a national idol by immersing her daily (in private) in milk baths. He then marries the beautiful Anna (magnificently played by Luise Rainer) and moves ahead with the production of more pageania in the grand manner. For three glittering hours the screen is alive with Ziegfeld, his personal life and his productions. At least half an hour is devoted to a Ziegfeldian ballet based on his song hit "A Pretty Girl Is Like...
...actresses have benefited by Myrna Loy's salary strike last summer. Luise Rainer got Miss Loy's part in Escapade. That picture, in which William Powell starred, encouraged the studio to try the trick again in Rendezvous. Before that, Rosalind Russell, 28, had appeared in eight minor roles, impressed critics most favorably in Forsaking All Others...
...pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name of a lady whom he has sketched in the nude, selects another...
...most deplorable thing about Luise Rainer (pronounced Rhiner) is the effect which she is likely to have upon U. S. women between the ages of 18 and 25 to whom the majority of Hollywood productions are specifically addressed and who will inevitably try to imitate her mannerisms...
Born in Düsseldorf, educated in Switzerland and trained for five years by Max Reinhardt, she went to Hollywood on contract last year and had apparently been completely overlooked when Myrna Loy, after the picture had been in production two days, walked out of Escapade. Luise Rainer was popped into the part so hurriedly that M-G-M did not even have time to think up an intelligent publicity campaign. First described thoughtlessly as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo, whom she resembles less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised...