#Luise Rainer

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William Powell and Luise Rainer in George Fitzmaurice’s THE EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS (1937).

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Luise Rainer (Big City; The Emperor's Candlesticks; The Toy Wife)—i mean. look at her.

Miriam Hopkins (Design For Living, Trouble in Paradise)—miriam hopkins had great range as an actresses, truly a woman who could play a passionate outburst for either dramatic or comedic effect and sell the ever-loving hell out of it. she's wonderful in the witty and sophisticated comedies she made with ernst lubitsch, great examples of movies that could never have been made after the hays code; the frothy musical comedy the smiling lieutenant where she plays a naive princess who accidentally gets betrothed to maurice chevalier, the polyamory classic design for living where she gary cooper and hot vintage shadow king fredric march are a throuple, and the ineffably exquisite comedic masterpiece trouble in paradise in which she and hubert marshall are sexy jewel thieves trying to con sexy rich lady kay francis, but will emotional complications ensue???? watch to find out!!

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Miriam Hopkins:

She is an incredibly charismatic and versatile actress who brings a certain captivating je ne sais quois to each and every one of her roles that makes her impossible to ignore. Her pre-code films were considered quite risqué, with her part in a thrupple in Design For Living, and some saucy scenes they had to cut from Jekyll and Hyde. She also had a strong career in early television, so good that this queen literally has TWO Hollywood Stars, TWO!! One for TV and one for Film

Also she is Gorgeous, capable of being the girl nextdoor and also a stunning blonde bombshell. She's not as well known as some golden-age Hollywood stars but she's really incredible and I recommend everyone watch her films

In Trouble in Paradise she plays a pickpocket who flirts by stealing from her criminal boyfriend and I fell in love

queen of the pre-code era. often her roles were of carefree, flirty and lighthearted but intelligent women. famously in the movie where she was part of a fredrich march/gary cooper throuple.

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She's got this sly slouchy confidence that just draws you in. Almost no one wore 30s fashion as well as her

We all know that Design for Living is THE pre-code movie and she is so iconic in it. Her eyes are everythingggg. Also everyone look at her in a suit in She Loves Me Not please

A Frequent collaborator of Ernst Lubistch, Miriam Hopkins like up the screen in her comic roles, as is especially sexy in her pre-code performance in Design for Living; probably one of the first movies to showcase a coded polyamorous relationship. She toes the line between adorable and sexy, and had the acting chops to back it all up.

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Carl van Vechten. Austrian beauty Luise Rainer. 1937

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Classic Saturday 🎞 Luise Rainer ❤️

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Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld

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Luise Rainer (January 12, 1910 - December 30, 2014) photographed by George Hurrell.

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30 dicembre … ricordiamo …

30 dicembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Tom Wilkinson, Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson, attore britannico. Cominciò ad interessarsi alla recitazione: si laureò in letteratura inglese e letteratura americana all’Università del Kent di Canterbury ed entrò in seguito nella Royal Academy of Dramatic Art di Londra. Debuttò sul grande schermo nel 1976. Wilkinson è morto per un arresto cardiaco. Fu sposato dal 1988 al 2023, con l’attrice…

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Remembering Luise Rainer on her birthday #botd

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1936 illustration by Frank Godwin by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the article The Tempestuous Life Story Of Luise Rainer by Adele Whitely Fletcher. From Photoplay magazine.

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Bitter Tea

Recently Turner Classic Movies played The Good Earth and The Bitter Tea of General Yen back to back. I caught the former as the locusts descended upon the crops and continued to the latter as a “Chinked up” Nils Asther rode away in “Yellow Face” without care or concern for the rickshaw driver his car had just hit. I grimaced as I watched Nils Asther’s exaggerated Yellow Face – painfully narrowed…

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One of his favorites was Luise Rainer, whom he wanted to turn into the next Greta Garbo because Garbo herself was so uncooperative with studio demands. He was so invested in Rainer’s career that he even managed to make her win two Oscars in a row, the only actress so far to hold that record.

The joke was on Mayer, though, because Rainer turned out to be as private and independent as Garbo, and she soon distanced herself from Hollywood. I recommend the video essay by the YouTube channel “Be Kind Rewind” about Luise Rainer’s Oscar wins and how Mayer’s investment in her was to the detriment of Anna May Wong, who wanted to play the lead role in “The Good Earth,” an adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's novel, but because she was of Chinese descent and the Hays Code prohibited depictions of interracial relationships, Luise Rainer ended up doing it in yellowface AND winning an Oscar for it, which is just another example of Hollywood congratulating itself for its bigotry and ignorance.

But at least Luise Rainer was eliminated on Round 1 while Anna May Wong is still going strong on Round 3, and that would definitely have pissed off Mayer, lol.

So well done, everyone.

Personally when I don't know who to vote for, I use the propaganda to guess who I think would piss off Louis B Mayer the most and vote for her

actually, who was Louis B. Mayer’s favorite? Do we know that?

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Do you ever dislike actors out of imagined solidarities with other actors? I feel off about Ruth Chatterton because Louise Brooks said she was made to instruct Clara Bow in elocution — insulting because Clara Bow is perfect and I love her accent! I also don’t like Luise Rainer out of solidarity with Anna May Wong.

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EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY – OMA AND GREGOR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1973)