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RIP Luise Rainer

#1 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:05 am

Two time Oscar winning actress (for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth), she was the first person to win multiple acting Oscars and, at the time of her death, the oldest living Oscar winner. Despite her longevity, she appeared in only one movie (and several TV shows, including an episode of The Love Boat) after 1943.

Age 104.

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Re: RIP Luise Rainer

#2 Post by kroxquo » Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:38 am

silverscreenselect wrote:at the time of her death, the oldest living Oscar winner.
So who is the oldest now?
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Re: RIP Luise Rainer

#3 Post by franktangredi » Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:39 am

silverscreenselect wrote:Two time Oscar winning actress (for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth), she was the first person to win multiple acting Oscars and, at the time of her death, the oldest living Oscar winner. Despite her longevity, she appeared in only one movie (and several TV shows, including an episode of The Love Boat) after 1943.

Age 104.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30631088
Well, that changes the answers to a lot of trivia questions! (But I should add that the Tangredi curse is not at work here. She is not included in my new movie game.)
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Re: RIP Luise Rainer

#4 Post by franktangredi » Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:42 am

kroxquo wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:at the time of her death, the oldest living Oscar winner.
So who is the oldest now?
I'm not sure about that, but the earliest competitive acting winner still alive is now Olivia de Havilland.

The earliest acting winner still alive is Margaret O'Brien, who won the honorary juvenile award in 1944. Two earlier winners of the juvenile Oscar, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, passed away this year.

Which means that the three earliest Oscar-winning actors ALL died in 2014!
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Re: RIP Luise Rainer

#5 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:27 am

franktangredi wrote:
kroxquo wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:at the time of her death, the oldest living Oscar winner.
So who is the oldest now?
I'm not sure about that, but the earliest competitive acting winner still alive is now Olivia de Havilland.

The earliest acting winner still alive is Margaret O'Brien, who won the honorary juvenile award in 1944. Two earlier winners of the juvenile Oscar, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, passed away this year.

Which means that the three earliest Oscar-winning actors ALL died in 2014!
Margaret O'Brien is only 77 so I think she's got a lot more years ahead of her.
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#6 Post by macrae1234 » Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:53 am

After Olivia we have Eva Marie Saint 90, Dorthy Malone and George Kennedy 89, Cloris Leachman 88
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#7 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Dec 30, 2014 2:39 pm

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#8 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:24 pm

macrae1234 wrote:After Olivia we have Eva Marie Saint 90, Dorthy Malone and George Kennedy 89, Cloris Leachman 88
George Kennedy is in the Mark Wahlberg version of The Gambler playing Mark's grandfather. He's on his hospital deathbed and is onscreen for about one minute, and I didn't recognize him until I saw the cast credits at the close of the movie.
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Re: RIP Luise Rainer

#9 Post by Pastor Fireball » Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:15 am

macrae1234 wrote:After Olivia we have Eva Marie Saint 90, Dorthy Malone and George Kennedy 89, Cloris Leachman 88
Sidney Poitier is just behind them. He'll turn 88 in a couple of months.
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